Complexity in Project Management

A Simple View of ‘complexity’ in Project Management

On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Complexity in Project Management

This article develops a model of a project as a payoff function that depends on the state of the world and the choice of a sequence of actions. A causal mapping, which may be incompletely known by the project team, represents the impact of possible actions on the states of the world. An underlying probability space represents available information about the state of the world. Interactions amon...

Complexity in the Context of Systems Approach to Project Management

Complexity is an inherent attribute of any project. The purpose of defining and documenting complexity is to have an early warning tool allowing a project team to focus on certain areas and aspects of the project in order to prevent and alleviate future risks and issues caused by this complexity. The main contribution of this paper is to present a systematic view of complexity in project manage...

Complexity Measurement: A New, Comprehensive Metric for Project Management

The dynamism and volatility of a project or a portfolio (frequently changing scope, objectives, priorities, resource allocation, etc) imply that the project can no longer be managed and governed with static or predefined metrics, methodologies, and best practices. As the environment in which a project has to be managed becomes uncertain and unpredictable, it becomes necessary, if not mandatory,...

Project Managers Competencies based on ICB and Project Management Processes based on PMBOK in Project Based Organization (Case study: Hydropower Plants Management)

Effective implementation of managerial systems needs software and hardware requirements. Project management competencies of the managers is one of the most important and inevitable requirements to ensure the success of the projects in any industry. Inorder to clarify the requirements, many international and professional instituts have presented well-known frameworks to help the managers to shap...