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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
Volume 2 no. 4 (October 2016)
A word is increasingly gaining more risks (calculable events), uncertainties
attention in many social and business (incalculable events), unforeseen
contexts such as countries, influences, complexity and dynamic
organizations, industries, enterprises, changes. This is a challenge to
environment and climate, cities, traditional approaches of project
security, which are impacted by management and the paradigm of
unprecedented changes: this word is planning and control. Project
resilience. managers and their teams need to
have competences that enable them
For English Wiktionary resilience to quickly recover from difficulties and
generally means the ability to recover come back on track towards the
from some shock or disturbance. desired goals … Concepts of
There are different meanings for it: resilience for individuals, projects and
organizations will help to advance the
resilience of a material: the profession and cope with the ever-
physical property of material increasing challenges on our relentless
that can resume its shape after pursuit towards a world in which all
being stretched or deformed projects succeed.
(elasticity) or, in other words,
that can absorb energy without Managing Editor of PM World Journal
breaking; David Pells adds that resilience has
resilience of a system: the ability become a very important topic in the
of a system to recover from a project management field, where risks
catastrophic failure; associated with disasters or other
resilience of an IT system: the disruptive changes can be
capacity of an IT system to catastrophic. We would like to grow
guarantee its service continuity; the resource base on this topic in the
resilience in biology: the PM World Library during 2016.
capacity of a living system to
recover its own equilibrium after It is therefore consequential that
a change or a damage; Resilience was chosen by Antonio
resilience in psychology: the Calabrese, Director of Master in
process of adapting well in the Project Management at MIP
face of adversity, trauma, Politecnico di Milano and President of
tragedy, threats or even IPMA Italy, as the topic for a “PM in
significant sources of stress (The Action” lecture: Resilience and
American Psychological Motivation. The presentation was
Association). delivered by prof. Pietro Trabucchi of
Verona University, author of several
The President of IPMA, Reinhard books on the topic, the last of which is
Wagner, states: We all experience an To persevere is human.
increasingly complex environment,
which has a significant impact on our It is not the purpose of this article to
projects and the way we manage summarize in a structured way the
them. Factors to be considered are content of the whole presentation,
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