Agile Project Management Essentials from the Project Management Journal

The development of the Agile Movement, whatever the area of application or discipline, comes from the famous 'faster, cheaper, better' maxim. As such, the agile manufacturing paradigm rests on four principles: response to change and uncertainty, supplying highly customized products, synthesis of diverse technologies, and intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise integration. For the reader interested in agile project management applications, response to changes, and transformations and its impact on managing projects, this book is a must-read. Various insights are covered, including: how to master complexity and changes in projects, economy, and society; how interaction between the project management team and project owners can influence risk management; how to move beyond the traditional mechanistic project management approach; how to include agile principles into an improved Logical Framework Analysis structure; what the impact is of agile principles on project management organizations what kind of innovative project management practice supports agile principles; and much more.

Cover -- Introduction -- References -- Mastering Complexity and Changes in Projects, Economy, and Society via Project Management Second Order (PM-2) -- The Challenge for an Advanced Understanding of Project Management -- The Research Program 'Beyond Frontiers of Traditional Project Management' -- Limits of Traditional Project Management -- The Genesis of Project Managements to PM-2 -- Research Results for the Basic Concept of PM-2 -- The Creation of a Systemic Architecture and Process Model of PM-2 -- Potential Use of PM-2 -- Implementation of PM-2 in Different Project Types -- Principles, Methods, and Processes in PM-2 -- Demonstration and Verification-PM-2 in 'Real Life' Today -- The Future-Integration Aspects of PM-2, CPMCS, MUPEC, ICB3, and PMI Standards -- Conclusions and Perspectives -- Acknowledgment -- References -- How Project Manager-Project Owner Interaction Can Work Within and Influence Project Risk Management -- Objective -- Some Basic Challenges Regarding Project Ownership and Risk Management -- Research Approach -- Results and Discussion -- Summary of Results -- Conclusions, Contributions, and Further Research -- References -- Managerial Complexity in Project-Based Operations: A Grounded Model and Its Implications for Practice -- Introduction -- Background -- Complexity in Projects -- Methodology -- Results -- Implications -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Beyond Frontiers of Traditional Project Management: An Approach to Evolutionary, Self-Organizational Principles and the Complexity Theory-Results of the Research Program -- Introduction -- Advanced Challenges and Requirements for Project Management, Based on the Irreversible, Nonlinear, System-Structuring Change in Nature, Society, and Economy -- Fundamental Changes in Sciences as New Advantages for Project Management.