Sustainability and Agility in Project Management: Contradictory or Complementary?
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the new perspective within the sustainability in project management considering contemporary project management methodologies, practices, knowledge and skills and future trends in this management discipline. One of the main issues at the begging of the 21st century is how to achieve sustainable development. Sustainability as a concept is present at the society level and at the business level as well, therefore there is an increasing effort among researchers and practitioners to integrate project management and sustainable development. In recent years project management discipline is also facing a growing challenge of how to create value and respond to changing the environment, in order to profit. Facing this challenge requires agility. Agile management is now present not only in software development but in other industries too. Based on the analysis of sustainable project management concept, the main challenges of its application, and the key elements of agil...e project management, the main conclusions of this paper is that sustainability and agility are complementary concepts that help project managers to deal with environment burden.
Keywords:
Sustainability / Project management / AgileSource:
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2019, 871, 522-532Publisher:
- Springer Verlag
Funding / projects:
- Researching contemporary tendencies of strategic management using specialized management disciplines in function of competitiveness of Serbian economy (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-179081)
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Fakultet organizacionih naukaTY - CONF AU - Obradović, Vladimir AU - Todorović, Marija AU - Bushuyev, Sergey PY - 2019 UR - https://rfos.fon.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2016 AB - This paper aims to analyze the new perspective within the sustainability in project management considering contemporary project management methodologies, practices, knowledge and skills and future trends in this management discipline. One of the main issues at the begging of the 21st century is how to achieve sustainable development. Sustainability as a concept is present at the society level and at the business level as well, therefore there is an increasing effort among researchers and practitioners to integrate project management and sustainable development. In recent years project management discipline is also facing a growing challenge of how to create value and respond to changing the environment, in order to profit. Facing this challenge requires agility. Agile management is now present not only in software development but in other industries too. Based on the analysis of sustainable project management concept, the main challenges of its application, and the key elements of agile project management, the main conclusions of this paper is that sustainability and agility are complementary concepts that help project managers to deal with environment burden. PB - Springer Verlag C3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing T1 - Sustainability and Agility in Project Management: Contradictory or Complementary? EP - 532 SP - 522 VL - 871 DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-01069-0_37 UR - conv_3565 ER -
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Obradović, V., Todorović, M.,& Bushuyev, S.. (2019). Sustainability and Agility in Project Management: Contradictory or Complementary?. in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Springer Verlag., 871, 522-532. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01069-0_37 conv_3565
Obradović V, Todorović M, Bushuyev S. Sustainability and Agility in Project Management: Contradictory or Complementary?. in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2019;871:522-532. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01069-0_37 conv_3565 .
Obradović, Vladimir, Todorović, Marija, Bushuyev, Sergey, "Sustainability and Agility in Project Management: Contradictory or Complementary?" in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 871 (2019):522-532, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01069-0_37 ., conv_3565 .