Lean Project Management

Introduction

DOI: 10.4324/9781003435402-1

After reading this chapter, you will know …

• what the challenges of project management are in today’s world, which is characterised as a “VUCA” world, and
• what the motivation is for Lean Project Management as an overarching concept, covering plan-driven and agile approaches.

Challenges in modern project management

The leading study in Germany (by the GPM) on the macroeconomic measurement of project activity shows that the share of project activity in total working time was about 35% across Germany in 2013/2014. And the “projectification” of the economy, i.e. the increase in project work in companies, will continue.¹ Increasingly more value creation is taking place in the form of projects. Let us take ...