The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change

Professor Darren Dalcher

ISBN 10: 1138080144 / ISBN 13: 9781138080140

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138080144
• ISBN 13: 9781138080140
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 462 grams

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Synopsis

Project practice has undergone significant changes requiring new ways of thinking about and managing projects. The single focus on the staged delivery of artefacts is gradually being replaced by a wider interest in stakeholders, value, benefits, and complexity. As a result there is a growing interest in the development of practitioner capabilities, grounded in the recognition that dealing with permeable boundaries and unstructured situations transcends normative processes. Modern practitioners increasingly utilise deliberative and reflective approaches, often challenging received wisdom and traditional interpretations.

This volume provides a sampling of some of the best writing in the project domain, enabling readers to access a wider group of authors, ideas, and perspectives. Key topics covered include agility and programme management, planning, people, business cases, contracts, teams, sponsorship, collaboration, strategy, patterns, context, change, and benefits.

The main aims of the collection are to reflect on the state of practice within the discipline; to propose new extensions and additions to good practice; to offer new insights and perspectives; to distil new knowledge; and, to provide a way of sampling a range of the most promising ideas, perspectives and styles of writing from some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the discipline.

About the Author

Darren Dalcher is Professor of Project Management at the University of Hertfordshire. He has written over 200 papers and book chapters and published over 30 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process and of two established book series published by Routledge.