Project management

The overall aim of this book is to highlight the diversity of project forms in organizations, and the complexity inherent in managing them. To illustrate the variety of possible projects, we describe six types of project: the industrial project, the research and development project, the creation project, the event project, the organizational development project and the sustainable development project.

For each of these projects, managers have to build a coherent whole, which requires management adapted to the nature of the project, relevant mobilization of the players involved in the project, and consideration of the contexts in which the projects find their full relevance.

At the end of the book, it emerges that each type of project is unique and operates according to its own logic, its own identity. For example, an industrial project is not managed in the same way as an event or sustainable development project. As a project manager, it is therefore crucial to make an appropriate reading of the identity of the project to be carried out, so as to fully understand its particularities and challenges and, consequently, to implement management practices that will not distort it.