Cybernetic Approach to Project Management
This book attempts to reflect the project reality as closely as possible, covering the ISO 21500:2012 standard that has just been introduced and the benefits from the best contributions worldwide and also providing the concise yet powerful tool box. It sh
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Cybernetic Approach to Project Management
Cybernetic Approach to Project Management
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Bogdan Lent
Cybernetic Approach to Project Management
Bogdan Lent Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Bogdan Lent is also affiliated to: National Defence University, Warsaw, Poland University of Technology and Life Sciences, Bydgoszcz, Poland Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
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To someone, who made my own My Dream Project happen
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Preface
Why This Book? Addressing the Challenges In managing various projects, at first small then becoming larger with time, I faced the deficiencies of common “great” management guidelines from renowned bodies. These guidelines and standards missed the point of competence focus, recurrence of processes, uncertainty and complexity in challenges, decisive human factors in projects and, most of all, the capacity for intuitive deployment. As DeMarco and Lister put it: you’re like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on
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