Project Management
Projects are the main mechanism by which organisations implement strategic change as a proactive response to threats and opportunities. Projects are not just technical endeavours, they are social, economic and strategic interventions in a dynamic and unpredictable environment. Therefore, it is unsurprising that there is a space of uncertainty created between the initial idea for a desired end, usually captured as a project mission, and the available means by which that mission is to be realised.
Projects as socio-technical systems can consist of a large number of elements, interdependencies, and unpredictability making them complex. Therefore, making sense of and navigating both complexity and uncertainty over time is one of the key challenges of leading projects and central to project organising. This one-day program will deepen your understanding of how complexity and uncertainty affect projects, how we can make sense of this and how this understanding can enable proactive responses.
During this masterclass you will explore:
- your project leadership capabilities
- your understanding of project uncertainty and complexity;
- and approaches for navigating and making sense of complexity and uncertainty.
This masterclass is part of the Project Management Masterclass Series, which consists of five modules. Each module can be taken individually, or participants can receive a discount by enrolling in all five. Find out more about the Project Management Masterclass Series.
About the facilitators
Dr. Eunice Maytorena Sanchez
Dr Eunice Maytorena Sanchez is Professor of Complex Project Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. Her research focuses on project and programme management across a range of sectors, including construction and engineering, utilities, defence and IT/IS. She specialises in complex project environments, with particular expertise in risk and uncertainty, and stakeholder management.
Eunice has developed deep expertise in supporting project-based organisations to better understand and respond to organisational challenges. Her work helps organisations strengthen capability in stakeholder engagement, strategic project management, and the management of risk, uncertainty and complexity. She has led and contributed to multiple research projects examining managerial risk perceptions and project risk management from a cognitive perspective, and has worked with public, private and not-for-profit organisations in the UK and internationally.
She brings over 20 years’ experience in higher education teaching across undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and executive education programs. Eunice is co-author of Strategic Project Organizing (Oxford University Press, 2022).