Complex Adaptive Operating System: Creating Methods for Complex Project Management

2014 ◽  
pp. 495-530
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Complex Project

scholarly journals Agile Innovation to transform healthcare: innovating in complex adaptive systems is an everyday process, not a light bulb event

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjinnov-2020-000574
Author(s):  
Richard J Holden ◽  
Malaz A Boustani ◽  
Jose Azar
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Light Bulb ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Agile Project Management ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Behavioural Sciences

Innovation is essential to transform healthcare delivery systems, but in complex adaptive systems innovation is more than ‘light bulb events’ of inspired creativity. To achieve true innovation, organisations must adopt a disciplined, customer-centred process. We developed the process of Agile Innovation as an approach any complex adaptive organisation can adopt to achieve rapid, systematic, customer-centred development and testing of innovative interventions. Agile Innovation incorporates insights from design thinking, Agile project management, and complexity and behavioural sciences. It was refined through experiments in diverse healthcare organisations. The eight steps of Agile Innovation are: (1) confirm demand; (2) study the problem; (3) scan for solutions; (4) plan for evaluation and termination; (5) ideate and select; (6) run innovation development sprints; (7) validate solutions; and (8) package for launch. In addition to describing each of these steps, we discuss examples of and challenges to using Agile Innovation. We contend that once Agile Innovation is mastered, healthcare delivery organisations can habituate it as the go-to approach to projects, thus incorporating innovation into how things are done, rather than treating innovation as a light bulb event.

Study on Behavioral Risks Based on Complexity Theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 2353-2357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Dong He ◽  
Yuan Li Wang ◽  
Yuan Yuan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Complexity Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Nonlinear Characteristics ◽  
Project Complexity ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
Theory Of Complexity

We attempt to study the participants behavioral risks of the complex project based on the theory of complexity analysis in this paper. First of all, through the review of literature we put forward the research contents of the complexity theory. Then, discuss the complexity characteristics of the project management; focus on the definition of the project complexity, the nonlinear characteristics of the project organization, the emergence and uncertainty characteristics of the complex project, etc. Finally, we point out that both from the perspective of theoretical research and project practice, the complexity analysis of project management has a positive significance.

scholarly journals Planning and Scheduling of Nagpur Metro Project using Smart-sheet tool

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1032-1035
Author(s):  
Janhvi A. Sahare
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Cost Optimization ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Project Management Software ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Complex Project

Abstract: Smart-Sheet is a project management software product, developed and sold by Smart consultancies. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analysing workloads. Smart sheet can be used as a standalone tool for tracking project progress or it can be used for tracking complex project distributed in many geographical areas and managed by a number of project managers. Smart Sheet is designed to assist a project manager in: 1) Developing a plan, 2) Assigning resources to tasks, 3) Tracking progress, 4) Managing budget and 5) Analysing workloads. In this study an effort is made to estimate the changes in overall cost and time required to execute the phase 1 work of Nagpur metro rail project when done by conventional execution approach and when done by project management software tool of smart sheet Keywords: Project management, Smart sheet, Conventional construction execution, Cost optimization, Time optimization, Resource optimization.

scholarly journals Is an Engineering Project Management Degree Worth it? Developing Agile Digital Skills for Future Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Dacre ◽  
PK Senyo ◽  
David Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Engineering Managers ◽  
Engineering Project Management ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
Future Practice

Engineering managers are progressively tasked with leveraging digital technologies and innovations which have yet to be fully developed, to seek out opportunities and challenges in complex project contexts. However, there is a disparity between knowledge gained from engineering development programmes, and the rapidly changing landscape of modern project practice, which requires professionals to effectively engage and deploy relevant agile digital skills in practice. For example, complex engineering projects increasingly employ dynamic digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR / VR), 3D Printing, and Digital Twins, which require managers to quickly adapt to changing constraints through agile digital skills. Therefore, this paper seeks to focus on exploring the role of engineering project management programmes in developing knowledge and agile digital skills relevant for future project practice. Through an outline review of project management development programmes, this research paper suggests that their inherent value for engineering project managers, is largely dependent on a combination of applied research, engagement, and agile digital skills development for future practice.

Discovering Ways That Don’t Work on the Road to Success

2013 ◽  
pp. 94-113
Author(s):  
Tawnya Means ◽  
Eric Olson ◽  
Joey Spooner
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Management Process ◽  
The Road ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Studio Classroom ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
Edison Project

Educational technology projects undertaken by higher education institutions range in complexity, scope, and impact. The Edison project created a sophisticated studio classroom that supports active learning teaching methods for both local and distant students. The team undertaking this complex project was composed of information technology and instructional design professionals with no real background in formal project management techniques. The team soon discovered that intuition and organic processes for implementing a complex project with increasing scope resulted in risks and challenges that threatened the success and potential impact of the project. The project team learned valuable lessons about the need for a systematic project management process. This case shares the project details, major accomplishments, and lessons learned by the team through the Active Learning Studio classroom (Edison) project.

scholarly journals Holonic Handling the Unexpected in Project Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Levente Bakos ◽  
Dănuț Dumitrașcu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Abductive Reasoning ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Known Unknowns

Abstract Risk assessment is one the key activities of any project. The unexpected situations can have catastrophic consequences. Risk assessment tries to estimate to potential known unknowns, but there is no guarantee to foresee all circumstances around a project. In this situation the project team must be adaptive and find solutions by cooperation, creativity and abductive reasoning. In the paper we tried to analyse on what extent a project and a project team can be handled as a complex adaptive system. More precisely, how the scientific and practical achievements of the theory of complex adaptive systems (CAS) can be used in project management. More exactly, we analyse the applicability of the Holonic Multi-Agent Systems in risk management of the projects. We consider the way in which holons handle the unexpected situations can be a model in project management.

scholarly journals An Assistance to Project Risk Management Based on Complex Systems Theory and Agile Project Management

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Franck Marle
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Project Risk Management ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Complex Systems Theory ◽  
Agile Project Management ◽  
First Results ◽  
Complex Project

Project Risk Management is crucial in determining the future performance of a complex project. Increasing project complexity makes it more and more difficult to anticipate potential events that could affect the project and to make effective decisions to reduce project risk exposure. To tackle these conceptual and managerial issues, the proposed approach introduces Complex Systems Theory-based improvements into some PRM subprocesses and runs the global PRM process using Agile Project Management principles. We argue that these advanced techniques for managing project risk complexity, notably risk interdependencies, are coherent with the distributed, self-organized nature of agile teams. This new way of structuring and executing Project Risk Management offers the possibility to make decisions more frequently, when needed, with a more distributed authority, and with richer information about anticipation of events and consequences of actions. First results show an appropriation of this combined approach by project members due to agile principles that allows for getting the more reliable information promised by Complex Systems Theory.

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