The central claim of this dissertation is that contemporary IT project management is largely practised within the constraint of a dominant discipline, that of the 'scientific' project manager, for whom projects are defined in terms of the 'iron triangle' of time, cost and performance. It argues that identification with that archetype has been a limiting factor in the development of project management as a sophisticated human practice.
Table of Contents
Par I . The problem of project management. Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. A practice in crisis
Chapter 3. A genealogy of project management
Chap[ter 4. Opening the space of project management : the hermeneutic phenomenological interview
Chapter 5. The philosophy of ironism -- Part II. A virtuoso competency framework for project management practice. Chapter 6. Attending to project management practice
Chapter 7. Redescribing project management
Chapter 8. 'Being-in' project management practice
Chapter 9. Conclusion : making project management relevant.Notes
Bibliography: pages 236-246
Thesis by publication.Awarding Institution
Macquarie UniversityDegree Type
Thesis PhDDegree
PhD, Macquarie University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie Graduate School of ManagementDepartment, Centre or School
Macquarie Graduate School of ManagementYear of Award
2015Principal Supervisor
Steven SegalAdditional Supervisor 1
Claire JankelsonRights
Copyright Bradley Rolfe 2014.
Copyright disclaimer: http://mq.edu.au/library/copyrightLanguage
EnglishExtent
1 online resource (xx, 246 pages)Former Identifiers
mq:71411
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1274074
