| Book Name: | Reconstructing Project Management |
| Category: | Civil Engineering Books |
| Language: | English |
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This hugely informative and wide-ranging analysis of the management of projects, past, present, and future is written both for practitioners and scholars. Beginning with a history of the discipline s development, Reconstructing Project Management provides an extensive commentary on its practices and theoretical underpinnings. It concludes with proposals to improve its relevancy and value. Written not without a hint of attitude, this is by no means simply another project management textbook. The book’s thesis is that it all depends on how you define the subject; that much of our current thinking about project management as traditionally defined is sometimes dull, conceptually weak, and of limited application, whereas, in reality, it can be exciting, challenging, and enormously important. The book draws on leading scholarship and case studies to explore this thesis. The book is divided into three major parts. Following an Introduction setting the scene,
Part 1 covers the origins of modern project management, how the discipline has become what it is typically said to be, how it has been constructed, and the limitations of this traditional model.
Part 2 presents an enlarged view of the discipline and then deconstructs this into its principal elements.
Part 3 then reconstructs these elements to address society’s challenges and implications for the discipline in the years ahead.
A final section reprises the sweep of the discipline s development and summarises the top insights from the book. This thoughtful commentary on project (and program and portfolio) management as it has developed and has been practiced over the last 60-plus years, and as it may be over the next 20 to 40, draws on examples from many industry sectors around the world. It is a seminal work, required reading for everyone interested in projects and their management.
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Author(s): Peter W. G. Morris
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780470659076, 9781118536698