Mindful Project Management, 2nd Edition

Chapter one

The challenge

CONTENTS

A litany of project failure

The emergence of project management

The challenge of uncertainty and complexity

What this book is about

Mindful practices: our case companies

References

We as project managers tend to treat projects with a strongly ‘mechanistic’ approach: the work can be broken down, executed and controlled as a series of interlocking parts. This is the technical, engineering-based conceptualisation, derived from the roots of the subject. While acknowledging the many benefits of this view, we take a different approach. We understand projects as ‘organic’ constructs, living and mindful entities ...