Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide, Second Edition

Projects today rarely unfold in a straight line. Interconnected systems, diverse stakeholders, volatile environments and layered governance make many initiatives more complex than traditional approaches were built to handle.

Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide, Second Edition helps Project Professionals meet that challenge. It offers practical strategies, frameworks and tools to build the competencies needed to navigate complexity and achieve project success.

Created for project, program and portfolio professionals and leaders managing complex work, the guide moves beyond theory to address both the technical and human aspects of complexity. It helps professionals become not just problem-solvers, but sense makers and systems navigators.

The guide is a key knowledge resource for the PMI Advanced Project Leader (APL)™ certification, making it an essential reference for professionals pursuing the certification.

It includes:

• Foundations in systems thinking and complexity theory
• Guidance on tailoring development approaches for complex environments
• Competencies, communication, decision-making and leadership strategies for navigating complexity
• Practical tools, frameworks and case studies for real-world application
• Organizational enablers, including enterprise agility, organizational learning and adaptation
• Complexity playbooks to help teams put guidance into action