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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Projects and complexity. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2012 (DLC) 2012009653 (OCoLC)752072260 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Francesco Varanini; Walter Ginevri |
| ISBN: | 1466502843 9781466502840 |
| OCLC Number: | 793412198 |
| Notes: | "An Auerbach book." |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 289 p.) : ill. |
| Contents: | Introduction Complexity in Projects: A Humanistic View; Francesco Varanini A Philosopher of Science's Opinion; Ginaluca Bocchi Testimonies and Complexity; Fernando Giancotti The Shared Vision as a Change Engine; Alberto Felice De Toni Self-Organized Project Management; Luca Comello The Project beyond WBS; Livio Paradiso & Michela Ruffa Stakeholders' Worlds; Carlo Notari & MariA' Moresco The Propitious Time; Diego Centanni Leadership and Complexity; Stefano Morpurgo Narrating to Believe; Bice Dellarciprete & Andrea Pinnola Risk and Complexity; Roberto Villa The Value of Redundancy; Bruna Bergami An Ongoing Journey; Walter Ginevri Index |
| Responsibility: | edited by Francesco Varanini, Walter Ginevri. |
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... thought-provoking, and inspiring. I particularly engaged with the sections on complexity, on the project as a complex adaptive system, and on chronos-versus-kairos time. Some of these issues are starting to emerge as key elements in the future landscape of project-based management ... this text will assist in appreciating, understanding, and accepting the need for project management to be explored and documented in new and different ways. Read this book. It will reward you in many ways, and will probably change the way that you think about project management in the future. -Dr. Steve Leybourne, Boston University A fascinating book bringing a new philosophy and a fresh view to project management. ... provides clear insights on key challenges and dynamics of project implementation in a rapidly changing environment. It is more than a technical reference book for project managers: I found it stimulating, thoughtful, and broadly applicable to any complex management endeavor. -Nicoletta Scannavini, Sr. Marketing Manager, EMEA Financial Institutions Group, A.T. Kearney This book contains precious pages, which bring the readers to an intellectual experience beyond the deepening of the thematic of project management, creating an exploration adventure into the most urgent nodes of the organizational and managerial contemporary experience. -Giuseppe Varchetta, Former Chief of Organizational Development, Unilever, Italy It is very true what this book says about the analogy between projects and systems: a system is a project in progress. It is evident, more than ever, that in a complex system the technical/technological infrastructure is an essential and enabling component, but it is not the whole. -Marco Lisi, System & Operations Manager, European Space Agency Read more...
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Waxes Philosophical
This is book is highly conceptual and philosophical in nature, starting with the history of famous and even mythical project management. I think it has a point to make, but it's difficult to nail down what that point is. It waxes philosophical often, and fails to deliver in a succinct...
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This is book is highly conceptual and philosophical in nature, starting with the history of famous and even mythical project management. I think it has a point to make, but it's difficult to nail down what that point is. It waxes philosophical often, and fails to deliver in a succinct way any practical applications to help with managing project complexity. Read this book, and you'll talk about all the problems with managing project complexity without actually accomplishing the project.
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