Managing Complex, High Risk Projects A Guide to Basic and Advanced Project Management / [electronic resource] :
by Franck Marle, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal.
- XI, 273 p. 109 illus., 37 illus. in color. online resource.
Introduction to project management -- Traditional approaches and tools for project management -- Understanding the complexity of projects -- Managing complex projects through risks : a change of paradigm -- Conclusions and perspectives.
Maximizing reader insights into project management and handling complexity-driven risks, this book explores propagation effects, non-linear consequences, loops, and the emergence of positive properties that may occur over the course of a project. This book presents an introduction to project management and analysis of traditional project management approaches and their limits regarding complexity. It also includes overviews of recent research works about project complexity modelling and management as well as project complexity-driven issues. Moreover, the authors propose their own new approaches, new methodologies and new tools which may be used by project managers and/or researchers and/or students in the management of their projects. These new elements include project complexity definitions and frameworks, multi-criteria approaches for project complexity measurement, advanced methodologies for project management (propagation studies to anticipate potential behaviour of the project, and clustering approaches to improve coordination between project actors) and industrial case studies (automotive industry, civil engineering, railroad industry, performing arts,...) and exercises (with their solutions) which will allow readers to improve and strengthen their knowledge and skills in the management of complex and (thus) risky projects.
9781447167877
10.1007/978-1-4471-6787-7 doi
Engineering. Tax accounting. Tax laws. Organization. Planning. Operations research. Decision making. Industrial engineering. Production engineering. Engineering. Industrial and Production Engineering. Business Taxation/Tax Law. Operation Research/Decision Theory. Organization.