Agile Project Management and Complexity: A Reappraisal [Paperback]

This research monograph presents an inter-disciplinary study into the impact, and current status, of applications of complexity-related concepts in the early stages of development of agile project management (APM).

CzesBaw Mesjasz is an Associate Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

Katarzyna Bartusik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

Tomasz MaBkus is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

Mariusz SoBtysik is an Assistant Professor within the Management Process Department of the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

This research monograph presents an inter-disciplinary study of the impact, and current status, of applications of complexity-related concepts in the early stages of development of Agile Project Management (APM). The results serve as an introduction for exploring more profound relations between complexity-related ideas and APM in the future.

The increasing complexity of software projects and their environment in the 1990s constituted the main determinants of the development of the family of methodological frameworks called Agile Project Management. Development of APM has been shaped by a broadly defined area of research called complexity science or complexity theory based on complex adaptive systems (CAS) and on their characteristics: Complexity, chaos, the edge of chaos, emerging properties, non-linearity, self-organization, etc. In the 21st century, due to the expansion of Agile beyond software development, the challenges deriving from the complexity of projects and the environment are even more urgent or compellilÃ/