Rethinking Project Management

In practice, we see that projects often fail: people disagree, they change their minds, they learn asa work progresses. The project develops into an important and influential organisation with its own opinions, needs and challenges. Researchers have, for a long time, pointed out the need for new app [...]
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In practice, we see that projects often fail: people disagree, they change their minds, they learn asa work progresses. The project develops into an important and influential organisation with its own opinions, needs and challenges. Researchers have, for a long time, pointed out the need for new approaches to project management, to take into account thespecific demands of individual projects. Erling S. Andersen’s new bookexamines project management from an organisational perspective.A project is a temporary organisation, established by its base organisation to carry out an assignment on its behalf. From this perspective, project management focusses on therelationship between the permanent and the temporary organisation. Inherent in this perspective is an understanding of the project’s most important purpose, to facilitate another organisation’s progress. The assignment is about change, often within a certain time limit. Rethinking Project Management discussesthe foundation of the project, the planning, essential organising,control and leadership, all within anorganisational perspective. There is no ‘right way’ to tackle projects – this book invites readers torethink traditional methods and theories andoffers new perspectives on every aspect of the project management process. A key title for any student of project management, Rethinking Project Management provides a unique groundingin the essentials of the subject, as well as a base forfurther study of contemporary issues inthe field. Erling S. Andersen is ProfessorofProjectManagementandInformationSystems,
BINorwegianSchoolofManagement, Oslo.