Book Reviews Book Review: "Organizing for a Complex World"
| Book Review: "Organizing for a Complex World" |
| Written by Berthold Kastel |
| Friday, 10 April 2009 21:44 |
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Organizing for a Complex World - Developing Tomorrow's Defense and Net-Centric Systems (Edited by Guy Ben-Ari and Pierre A. Chao, Foreword by David J. Berteau)This book definitely focuses on the defense industry. In ten independent articles it gives unique perspectives on typical issues of initiating and designing defense systems. As often is the case, it addresses the complex systems (and systems of systems) being built from the systems aspect of designing, procuring and building those systems and sub-systems.
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Important Definitions
"Project Portfolio"Any kind of grouping of projects to enable the joint management of schedules and resources. Portfolios are tied to the organization's strategic objectives. What does that mean for 21st century projects?
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New Ideas
History: 5 Generations of Project ManagementThe historical development of project management is reflected in the evolution of tools and software applications used to facilitate it. I see five different generations of such applications. Of course project management was successfully performed (even though probably labeled differently) since ancient times. The following, however, focuses on developments starting with the PC revolution.
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