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Book Review: "Complex Project Management"
Book Review: "Complex Project Management" - Page 2
Written by Berthold Kastel   
Friday, 10 April 2009 21:41
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Detailed Review

 

Published: 2007
Pages: 573

 

A loose collection of fifteen "essays," this book covers a variety of topics, in as many different styles. The two main topics, in terms of space reserved for them, are on the one side contracting and partnering, and on the other side "PROJAM Management," a combination of project and program management.

The index lists the following papers:

  • Partnering
  • Partnering: a Cultural Change Process
  • Project Managed Change: the Application of Project Management Techniques to Strategic Change Programs
  • Relational Contracting
  • Integrated Alliancing
  • Governance Contracting: a Program Delivery Methodology for Complex Programs
  • The Philosophy of Relational Contracting: Capitalism versus Fundamentalism
  • Next Generation Project Management
  • Project Management and Organisational Change: Delivering Tangible Change Outcomes using Innovative Complex Project Management
  • A Vision for the Future of Defence PPP: Achieving Cutting Edge Strategies for the Management of Future Projects
  • Redefining My Profession
  • Complex Project Managers
  • Wave Planning
  • PROJAM: The Management of Complex Projects and Programs
  • Complex Project Management Competency Standards [paper missing]

     

     

     


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