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Exploring the Complexity of Projects: Implications of Complexity Theory for Project Management Practice Project Management Institute, 2009, ISBN: 9781933890951, paperback, 100 pages, $28.75 Member, $35.95 Nonmember.

Practitioners and academics alike agree that project management relies heavily, almost religiously, on the traditional concept of the project life cycle, and is driven by the pursuit of universal best practice solutions. Mainstream project management has adopted traditional methods to generalize the field, but they inadequately address the complexity of projects in a theoretically sound and practically relevant way.

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