Chaos Project Management

You might have noticed that I have renamed my blog to "Lost in Chaos". I'm not talking about my geographical location, although some people might argue that it would be a perfect match. No, I'm here talking about Chaos in Project Management, which my favorite field of research, and I intend to post more about it in the future.

The word chaos did not initially mean "disorder", but this became the common acceptance of its meaning as of today. Mathematically, Chaos means "an aperiodic deterministic behavior which is very sensitive to its initial conditions" (i.e., small perturbations of the initial conditions lead to large variations). A chaotic system typically looks random but is not: It is very difficult to predict accurately, but still predictable if you have enough information (it is called a deterministic system, e.g. weather forecasting). The whole idea behind my work, and this re-branding of my blog, is to be able to reveal patterns of order out of seemingly chaotic systems (a.k.a. Projects), and why not use this information to "Control the chaos" !