Project Management Journal

The development of the Agile Movement, whatever the area of application or discipline, comes from the famous "faster, cheaper, better" maxim. As such, the agile manufacturing paradigm rests on four principles: response to change and uncertainty, supplying highly customized products, synthesis of diverse technologies, and intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise integration. For the reader interested in agile project management applications, response to changes, and transformations and its impact on managing projects, this book is a must-read. Various insights are covered, including: • how to master complexity and changes in projects, economy, and society, • how interaction between the project management team and project owners can influence risk management, • how to move beyond the traditional mechanistic project management approach, • how to include agile principles into an improved Logical Framework Analysis structure, • what the impact is of agile principles on project management organizations • what kind of innovative project management practice supports agile principles, • and much more.

This special issue of the Project Management Journal presents a collection of six articles on managing projects in Africa. Providing a window into the important project activity taking place there, these articles extend both the empirical and theoretical understanding of the African project context and contribute to improving practice. Each article makes a unique contribution to either our understanding of the African project context or project management in general, and sometimes to both. After an introduction to the African project context at the start of the 21st century, the articles explore: • three different countries as well as multinational projects, • for-profit, public sector, and development aid projects, • infrastructure and information and communication technology, • project governance as well as project management, and • partnering challenges.