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\itemau{Lent, Bogdan}
\itemti{Cybernetic approach to project management: where sense making intelligence is needed.}
\itemso{Unger, Herwig (ed.) et al., Autonomous systems: developments and trends. Papers based on the presentations at the workshop dedicated to the 60th birthday of Prof. Wolfgang Halang, Hagen, Germany, October 31 -- November 1, 2011. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-24805-4/hbk; 978-3-642-24806-1/ebook). Studies in Computational Intelligence 391, 97-108 (2011).}
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Summary: The original cybernetics of Norbert Wiener concerns self-regulation and equilibrium stabilisation around specified goal - mainly through negative feedback. This is an attractive preposition for project management. Yet complexity and chaos of projects are better reflected by non-linear systems, which in turn are better manageable in adaptive and self-organised distributed systems with positive feedback. Paper presents the mental model of project management based on cybernetic system approach with several asynchronously running decentralised subsystems based on specific component-goal oriented processes. Without claming the wholeness or completeness of the solution the indices of possible project performance improvements provide sufficient justification for continuing research in this area.
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\itemut{cybernetic project management; non-linear systems in projects; finite models; initial conditions sensibility; complex systems; negative and positive feedbacks; multiple equilibriums; $\text{L-timer}^{\text{TM}}$}
\itemli{doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24806-1\_8}
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