This highly practical, award winning book is a must read for anyone who is in charge of or about to take up a complex project. It provides project managers with an alternative perspective on how to create order in the chaos, without talking about planning, risk management or stakeholder analyses.
Complex projects seem to be all about chaos and less about order. Deadlines are not met, control is lacking and conflicts are more often the rule rather than the exception. In short: chaos prevails. Trying to keep your client satisfied along the way is a daunting, if not impossible task. In order to turn this around, you need to learn how to find order in this chaos and thát is not an impossible task. It is simply a matter of looking at the situation from a different perspective. Value-based Project Management will show you how. The author provides her readers with eleven interventions inspired by the chaos theory to help bring order in the chaos of any project: the Project’s Eleven.
- Values
- Higher goal
- Project vision
- Developmental approach
- Trust
- Transformational leadership
- Self-organisation
- Creativity
- User participation
- Stakeholder dialogue
- Focus on results
By applying the principles of the Project’s Eleven, your project becomes robust but flexible enough to be able to react to unexpected events. Because even though a stable environment is desirable for any project, the reality is mostly quite different. The eleven interventions let you find order in the chaos. Based on elements such as vision, transparency and trust, you can let every complex project reach project maturity. This will not only make your client happy, but everyone involved will be proud to be a part of your ‘chaos project’!
