Posted on 01/05/2008 by Peter Evans
An interesting post here on PM 2.0 – a more ‘emergent’ approach to managing projects that is more about collaboration and learning – especially in the build, test, rebuild approach.
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Posted on 29/04/2008 by Peter Evans
svprojectmanagement have this article on complexity thinking in projects. The article reflects some of the key questions I come back to about projects and organisations in general, especially the question on a “school of fishes swimming together without a manager. Why don’t they need overhead?”. See managing complexity by nurturing emergence – interesting stuff [...]
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Posted on 18/04/2008 by Peter Evans
Back on to the theme of exploration in project management, I came across an article from Ralph Stacey on strategy as order emerging from chaos – I think its a fairly old article from 1993 or so – which included an eight ’step’ framework for managing in organisations drawing on complexity science. While the framework [...]
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