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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Posted on 30/01/2008 by Peter Evans
In an increasingly complex and changeable/ chaotic environment I find that in many instances traditional control based project management approaches don’t work or don’t add value. Take Prince 2, for example, the clue is in the title – PRojects IN Controlled Environments.
Project and organisational boundaries are increasingly permeable and managers need to manage [...]
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