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The development of the Agile Movement, whatever the area of application or discipline, comes from the famous "faster, cheaper, better" maxim. As such, the agile manufacturing paradigm rests on four principles: response to change and uncertainty, supplying highly customized products, synthesis of diverse technologies, and intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise integration.
For the reader interested in agile project management applications, response to changes, and transformations and its impact on managing projects, this book is a must-read. Various insights are covered, including:

• how to master complexity and changes in projects, economy, and society;
• how interaction between the project management team and project owners can influence risk management;
• how to move beyond the traditional mechanistic project management approach;
• how to include agile principles into an improved Logical Framework Analysis structure;
• what the impact isof agile principles on project management organizations
• what kind of innovative project management practice supports agile principles;
• and much more.

project Management Has Become One Of The Most Valued Skills In Business. It Is Especially Valuable When A Company Undertakes A Major Project Where They Need Project Managers With Advanced Skills. To Move From Intermediate To Advanced Project Management, A Project Manager Must Understand Not Only The Project Itself, But Also The Overall Needs Of The Company. They Must Know How To Build And Manage Teams, Handle Large Budgets, And Appreciate The Difference Between Managing The Project And Managing The Stakeholders. advanced Project Management Clearly Explains These Skills. It Sets Out The Processes, Methods, And Tools That Enable A Project Manger To Handle Complex Projects.

This hugely informative and wide-ranging analysis on the management of projects, past, present and future, is written both for practitioners and scholars. Beginning with a history of the discipline's development, Reconstructing Project Management provides an extensive commentary on its practices and theoretical underpinnings, and concludes with proposals to improve its relevancy and value. Written not without a hint of attitude, this is by no means simply another project management textbook.

The thesis of the book is that 'it all depends on how you define the subject'; that much of our present thinking about project management as traditionally defined is sometimes boring, conceptually weak, and of limited application, whereas in reality it can be exciting, challenging and enormously important. The book draws on leading scholarship and case studies to explore this thesis.

The book is divided into three major parts. Following an Introduction setting the scene, Part 1 covers the origins of modern project management – how the discipline has come to be what it is typically said to be; how it has been constructed – and the limitations of this traditional model. Part 2 presents an enlarged view of the discipline and then deconstructs this into its principal elements. Part 3 then reconstructs these elements to address the challenges facing society, and the implications for the discipline, in the years ahead. A final section reprises the sweep of the discipline's development and summarises the principal insights from the book.

This thoughtful commentary on project (and program, and portfolio) management as it has developed and has been practiced over the last 60-plus years, and as it may be over the next 20 to 40, draws on examples from many industry sectors around the world. It is a seminal work, required reading for everyone interested in projects and their management.