Second Order Project Management

These extracts are from a series of interviews with an international group of very senior managers who have been responsible for managing highly complex projects; these comments are combined and interspersed with brief explanations of some of the techniques (over and above the existing standard methods such as Earned Value Management, PRINCE 2, Gateway reviews and others). The objective is not to provide a definitive guide to these techniques, but to convince management at the sponsoring level that they are needed, thereby justifying investment in their deployment.