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In the second part of Terry Cooke-Davies' bookAspects of Complexitythere is a change of focus from practitioners to academics. The four chapters that are occupy our attention during week's 8, 9, 10 and 11 are: -

Part 2 – With Researchers and Students in Mind

Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity, Terry Cooke-Davies
Chapter 9: Controlling Chaos? The Value and the Challenges of Applying Complexity Theory to Project Management, Kaye Remington and Roxanne Zolin
Chapter 10: Systems Thinking and the Systems Movement, Peter Checkland and Terry Williams
Chapter 11: Systems Engineering and Project Management, Andrew Daw

Accordingly, with you as a student in mind, it is now a good time for you to pay attention to the major assignment in this unit. In week 13 you are expected to submit the written assessment. There is 50% of the overall grade for this unit riding on your success with this assignment. The assessment criteria for the assignment can be found in the unit profile, however the first three criterion consists of: -

A description of the theories and ideas specific to complex project management? (15%)
An explanation of the causes, environments, and properties of complex projects? (15%)
A discussion of the tools and techniques to aid a project manager manage complex projects? (15%)

Therefore, 45% of the grade requires that you describe, explain and discuss things around complex projects. Next week we'll discuss criterion 4 and 5. However, for the first three criterion the four chapters mentioned above are a very good basis of describing, explaining and discussing: -

theories and ideas about complex project management
causes, environment, and properties of complex projects
the tools and techniques

Your task in this week's discussion is for you to summarise what you intend to write regarding these points. I am also preempting chapters 10 and 11 a bit with the tools aspect, but I'm sure you will recall we spent quite some time looking at systems thinking and systems engineering in previous units in this programme?

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A description of theories and ideas specific to complex project management	3
An explanation of the causes, environments and properties of complex projects	3
A discussion of the tools and techniques to aidd a project manager manage complex projects	4
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A description of theories and ideas specific to complex project management
Complexity of projects is the understanding of an individual and the group of individuals for a particular project. The project complexities are reduced by using specific tools and techniques of project management. The complexity of the project can be decided according to the approach followed for the systems thinking. Most of the time, it happens that project is complex or simple depending upon the project size, project budget, resources required, project team and the project manager. 
The theory of systems thinking is necessary to effectively manage  project; it helps to determine the project complexity and project outcomes at the initial level. The benefit from systems thinking approach is that it gives a complete insight to the project manager about the complexity of a project. 
However, organizations do research before beginning a project that helps to understand the project requirements and avoids project complexity. Some companies take help from the Government authorities to generate funds and use resources for a project. This idea is generally useful for the project management (Cooke-Davis, 2011). 
An explanation of the causes,

In the second part of Terry Cooke-Davies' book Aspects of Complexity there is a change of focus from practitioners to academics. The four chapters that are occupy our attention during week's 8, 9, 10...

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