Making Sense of Complexity in Projects: An Analysis of Discourses about Complexity in Project Management (Complexity and Interdisciplinarity in Project Management)

This book explores ‘project management’ (PM) from a new perspective.Project management is facing a paradigmatic stalemate.Its major challenge is complexity. Its current paradigmatic foundation in first-order cybernetics has reached its limits.More tools are created and project management is applied to any potential context, expecting better results while doing more of the same.Beyond conventional project management, agile and other project management approaches have emerged as new options to answer the complexity challenge.Yet, the question remains whether new options and more tools in light of the current shortcomings can create enough momentum for project management as a whole to overcome its paradigmatic stalemate and evolve toward new paradigms based on second-order cybernetics.This book will embark on a journey to explore current paradigms in project management and argue why an analysis of discourse practices in project management may be critical to generating new paradigmatic per