YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD (DONATH MEDAL): PEERING THROUGH THE WEB OF COMPLEXITY WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT: HOW TOOLS FROM COMPLEX-SYSTEMS THEORY HELP IDENTIFY DOMINANT DRIVERS AND FEEDBACKS OF CURIOUSLY BEHAVING AQUATIC LANDSCAPES

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Larsen ◽  
Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Franck Marle

Project Risk Management is crucial in determining the future performance of a complex project. Increasing project complexity makes it more and more difficult to anticipate potential events that could affect the project and to make effective decisions to reduce project risk exposure. To tackle these conceptual and managerial issues, the proposed approach introduces Complex Systems Theory-based improvements into some PRM subprocesses and runs the global PRM process using Agile Project Management principles. We argue that these advanced techniques for managing project risk complexity, notably risk interdependencies, are coherent with the distributed, self-organized nature of agile teams. This new way of structuring and executing Project Risk Management offers the possibility to make decisions more frequently, when needed, with a more distributed authority, and with richer information about anticipation of events and consequences of actions. First results show an appropriation of this combined approach by project members due to agile principles that allows for getting the more reliable information promised by Complex Systems Theory.


2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Scott Jordan ◽  
Narayanan Srinivasan ◽  
Cees van Leeuwen

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier García-Rubio ◽  
Miguel Ángel Gómez ◽  
María Cañadas ◽  
J. Sergio Ibáñez

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sloan Wilson

AbstractThe target article is a major step toward integrating the biological and human-related sciences. It is highly relevant to economics and public policy formulation in the real world, in addition to its basic scientific import. My commentary covers a number of points, including avoiding an excessively narrow focus on agriculture, the importance of multilevel selection and complex systems theory, and utopic versus dystopic scenarios for the future.


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