Managing Complex Projects and Programs: How to Improve Leadership of Complex Initiatives Using a Third-Generation Approach

Index

• Ackoff, Russell
• Archeology, organizational

• Background documents
• Burning platform

• Centaur:
  • building a
  • of excellence
  • programmaticist(s) as
• Clinical study outputs versus outcomes
• Coffee house project
• Committee(s):
  • cross-functional
  • governing
    • agility of
    • business
    • capabilities
    • capacity
    • decisions
    • delegation of responsibilities
    • efficiency
    • integration role
    • limitations
    • meetings
    • members
    • oversight of programs
    • oversight of projects
    • primary
    • roles and responsibilities
    • secondary
    • specialty
  • review
    • benefits of
    • business
    • governance by
    • mixed function
    • operational
    • portfolio
    • resource
    • secondary
    • specialty
    • strategic
    • technical
    • unintended consequences
• Complex adaptive system(s)
• Complexity:
  • directional. See Stakeholder
  • environmental
    • definition
    • management of
  • mystery, misery, and mastery
  • operational
    • definition
    • management of
  • organizational
    • definition
    • management of
  • outcome
    • definition
    • management of
  • programmatic
  • Rubik’s Cube
  • stakeholder
    • definition of
    • management of
• Complexity leadership theory
• Credo(s)
• Crown vetch

• Enabling conditions
• Enterprise-resource and project management (ERPM) systems
• Exasperados:
  • complexity management
  • definition of
  • perspectives of

• First-generation programmatics. See Programmatics, first generation
• First-generation programmatic systems. See Programmatics, first generation
• Five-complexities framework:
  • definition of
  • reactions to
  • use(s)

• Gantt charts
• Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)

• Handey, Jack

• Industrial Age
• Inclusivist ...