Visionary Project
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| This article is developed within the scope of the Project Visions and Visioning, an effort to enhance Foresight learning through collaborative work. |
Visionary Project is the third lecture from a module on Visions and Visioning, first taught to graduate students from the Communication Faculty of the National School for Political and Administration Studies (Romania).
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No Vision, No Projects
project management - a troubled discipline
- optimization school - how to plan a project?
- factor school - what determines a project’s success?
- contingency school - why do projects differ?
- behavior school - how do projects behave?
- governance school - how are projects governed?
- relationship school - how are projects generated?
- decision school - why do projects continue to live?
cross-fertilization
- a simple and clear-cut definition of project and project management would be a difficult feat
- projects are defined as complex sets of activities, complex tasks, organizational structures, organization processes, transactions, networks, large-scale investments
- some overlap and shared ideas are discerned regarding project definition, such as temporarity, complexity, and interdisciplinary
