Czesław Mesjasz is an Associate Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Katarzyna Bartusik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Tomasz Małkus is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Mariusz Sołtysik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

• 1 Conceptual framework1.1 Assumptions of the study 1.2 Complexity and management, project management, and Agile Project Management1.3 Terminology1.4 Agile and project management: Method, practice, methodology, or approach1.5 Agile Project Management: Origins and status quo. Beginnings of the Agile approach in software development2 Theoretical background and methods of research2.1 Complexity-related models, analogies, and metaphors in Agile Project Management2.2 Methods and sources 3 Typology of interpretations of complexity-related concepts in Agile Project Management3.1 Complex and complicated: Introductory interpretations3.2 Assumptions of typology3.3 Agile Project Management and intuitive interpretations of complexity3.4 Cybernetics, General System Theory, and sociocybernetics3.5 System dynamics, systems analysis, and system engineering3.6 Soft systems methodology, critical systems thinking, and System of Systems Methodologies4 Agile project management and complexity science4.1 What is complexity science?4.2 Chaos theory4.3 Synergetics of Hermann Haken4.4 The concepts of Ralph Stacey and the Cynefin Framework by Dave Snowden5 Project management and indigenous complexity-related concepts5.1 Wicked problems5.2 Synergetics of R. Buckminster Fuller5.3 Hierarchies, holons, and fractals in project management5.4 Complexity of social systems: The concepts of Niklas Luhmann6 Scrum and complexity-related ideas6.1 Introduction6.2 Scrum and complexity6.3 Scrum, adaptation, emergence, self-organization7 Adaptive Software Development and complexity-related ideas7.1 The origins of ASD and complexity: Sources of inspiration7.2 ASD and complex adaptive systems: The economic environment of projects and environmental turbulence8 Complexity in the Agile Manifesto and in the Declaration of Interdependence8.1 Complexity and Agile in modern project management: A conceptual framework

Czesław Mesjasz is an Associate Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Katarzyna Bartusik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Tomasz Małkus is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Mariusz Sołtysik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

• 1 Conceptual framework1.1 Assumptions of the study 1.2 Complexity and management, project management, and Agile Project Management1.3 Terminology1.4 Agile and project management: Method, practice, methodology, or approach1.5 Agile Project Management: Origins and status quo. Beginnings of the Agile approach in software development2 Theoretical background and methods of research2.1 Complexity-related models, analogies, and metaphors in Agile Project Management2.2 Methods and sources 3 Typology of interpretations of complexity-related concepts in Agile Project Management3.1 Complex and complicated: Introductory interpretations3.2 Assumptions of typology3.3 Agile Project Management and intuitive interpretations of complexity3.4 Cybernetics, General System Theory, and sociocybernetics3.5 System dynamics, systems analysis, and system engineering3.6 Soft systems methodology, critical systems thinking, and System of Systems Methodologies4 Agile project management and complexity science4.1 What is complexity science?4.2 Chaos theory4.3 Synergetics of Hermann Haken4.4 The concepts of Ralph Stacey and the Cynefin Framework by Dave Snowden5 Project management and indigenous complexity-related concepts5.1 Wicked problems5.2 Synergetics of R. Buckminster Fuller5.3 Hierarchies, holons, and fractals in project management5.4 Complexity of social systems: The concepts of Niklas Luhmann6 Scrum and complexity-related ideas6.1 Introduction6.2 Scrum and complexity6.3 Scrum, adaptation, emergence, self-organization7 Adaptive Software Development and complexity-related ideas7.1 The origins of ASD and complexity: Sources of inspiration7.2 ASD and complex adaptive systems: The economic environment of projects and environmental turbulence8 Complexity in the Agile Manifesto and in the Declaration of Interdependence8.1 Complexity and Agile in modern project management: A conceptual framework

Czesław Mesjasz is an Associate Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Katarzyna Bartusik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Tomasz Małkus is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.Mariusz Sołtysik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

• 1 Conceptual framework1.1 Assumptions of the study 1.2 Complexity and management, project management, and Agile Project Management1.3 Terminology1.4 Agile and project management: Method, practice, methodology, or approach1.5 Agile Project Management: Origins and status quo. Beginnings of the Agile approach in software development2 Theoretical background and methods of research2.1 Complexity-related models, analogies, and metaphors in Agile Project Management2.2 Methods and sources 3 Typology of interpretations of complexity-related concepts in Agile Project Management3.1 Complex and complicated: Introductory interpretations3.2 Assumptions of typology3.3 Agile Project Management and intuitive interpretations of complexity3.4 Cybernetics, General System Theory, and sociocybernetics3.5 System dynamics, systems analysis, and system engineering3.6 Soft systems methodology, critical systems thinking, and System of Systems Methodologies4 Agile project management and complexity science4.1 What is complexity science?4.2 Chaos theory4.3 Synergetics of Hermann Haken4.4 The concepts of Ralph Stacey and the Cynefin Framework by Dave Snowden5 Project management and indigenous complexity-related concepts5.1 Wicked problems5.2 Synergetics of R. Buckminster Fuller5.3 Hierarchies, holons, and fractals in project management5.4 Complexity of social systems: The concepts of Niklas Luhmann6 Scrum and complexity-related ideas6.1 Introduction6.2 Scrum and complexity6.3 Scrum, adaptation, emergence, self-organization7 Adaptive Software Development and complexity-related ideas7.1 The origins of ASD and complexity: Sources of inspiration7.2 ASD and complex adaptive systems: The economic environment of projects and environmental turbulence8 Complexity in the Agile Manifesto and in the Declaration of Interdependence8.1 Complexity and Agile in modern project management: A conceptual framework