Project Management Viewed through a Complex Lens
The project management that we learn about in standard training courses is clean and tidy with a tool for every task and a solution for every problem. This is at odds with real life where those of us who work in the project environment have a very different experience. Project plans become ever-changing working documents, risk analyses become activities for stakeholder engagement and project team bonding, and forecasting scenarios legitimize our intuitive requests for more investment and extended deadlines.
In this taster lecture, we explore together the benefits that can be gained when viewing our projects through a complex lens, so if you are interested in how complexity theory can help project managers cope with the realities of today’s projects, please join this session.
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Vikki Abusidualghoul
Vikki is Assistant Dean (Blended and Co-curricular Learning) and Course Director of the Distance learning MBA at Warwick Business School. Her research interests include Complexity Theory, organisational measurement, project management, policy implementation, learning and teaching, and visual research methods. She holds a Masters degree in Education from the University of Exeter and a PhD in Management from the University of Leicester. She started her career as a professional educator in 1990 and since then has taken on roles as a practitioner, designer, manager and consultant at every level of the education arena from pre-school to post-doc, on small and large scale projects, in the public and private sectors, and in the UK and abroad.