Agile Project Management and Complexity

A Reappraisal

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvCzesław Mesjasz,Katarzyna Bartusik,Tomasz Małkus,Mariusz Sołtysik

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This research monograph presents an inter-disciplinary study of the impact, and current status, of applications of complexity-related concepts in the early stages of development of Agile Project Management (APM). The results serve as an introduction for exploring more profound relations between complexity-related ideas and APM in the future.The increasing complexity of software projects and their environment in the 1990s constituted the main determinants of the development of the family of methodological frameworks called Agile Project Management. Development of APM has been shaped by a broadly defined area of research called complexity science or complexity theory based on complex adaptive systems (CAS) and on their characteristics: Complexity, chaos, the edge of chaos, emerging properties, non-linearity, self-organization, etc. In the 21st century, due to the expansion of Agile beyond software development, the challenges deriving from the complexity of projects and the environment are even more urgent or compelling. Such phenomena demand more profound inter- and multi-disciplinary studies. This book examines the impact of applications of complexity-related ideas deriving from intuitive complexity and from complexity science in the early stages of development of the Agile methodological frameworks in project management and considers the current status of those applications. It questions the usefulness of those applications for the practice and theory of APM, and then proposes a conceptual framework for further theoretical studies and several ways of improvement and refinement of the Agile Project Management necessary to deal with broadly defined complexity in project management.Requiring a medium-level knowledge of complexity studies and knowledge of project management, this book is written for the research community studying the links between the various methodological frameworks included in APM and complexity-related ideas. It will also be interesting for studies of the impact of complexity on modern management, and for master’s students on IT and management courses.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-29
Mått152 x 229 x 7 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor114
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032006543

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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

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