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Project complexity is the property of a project which makes it difficult to understand, foresee, and keep under control its overall behavior, even when given reasonably complete information about the project system.<ref name="Springer-Verlag">{{Cite book|last1=Marle|first1=Franck|title=Managing Complex, High Risk Projects - A Guide to Basic and Advanced Project Management|last2=Vidal|first2=Ludovic‐Alexandre|date=2016|publisher=Springer-Verlag|___location=London}}</ref>

With a lens of [[systems thinking]], project complexity can be defined as an intricate arrangement of the varied interrelated parts in which the elements can change and evolve constantly with an effect on the project objectives.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bakhshi |first1=Javad |last2=Ireland |first2=Vernon |last3=Gorod |first3=Alex |title=Clarifying the project complexity construct: Past, present and future |journal=International Journal of Project Management |date=1 October 2016 |volume=34 |issue=7 |pages=1199–1213 |doi=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.06.002 |s2cid=113426565 }}</ref> The identification of complex projects is specifically important to multi-project engineering environments.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Vidal|first1=Ludovic-Alexandre|last2=Marle|first2=Franck|last3=Bocquet|first3=Jean-Claude|date=2011|title=Measuring project complexity using the Analytic Hierarchy Process|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01215358/file/Vidal%20et%20al%20-%202011%20-%20IJPM%20-%20Measuring%20project%20complexity%20using%20the%20AHP.pdf|journal=International Journal of Project Management|language=en|volume=29|issue=6|pages=718–727|doi=10.1016/j.ijproman.2010.07.005|s2cid=111186583 }}</ref>

The ___domain was introduced by D. Baccarini in 1996.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Baccarini|first=David|date=1996|title=The concept of project complexity—a review|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0263786395000933|journal=International Journal of Project Management|language=en|volume=14|issue=4|pages=201–204|doi=10.1016/0263-7863(95)00093-3|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

== Types of complexity ==

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== Project complexity management ==

[[File:The IT-PCM Project Complexity Management framework.png|thumb|The IT-PCM Project Complexity Management framework]]

The IT-PCM project complexity management framework proposed by Stefan Morcov consists of 5 processes:<ref>{{Cite journal|lastlast1=Morcov|firstfirst1=Stefan|last2=Pintelon|first2=Liliane|last3=Kusters|first3=Rob J.|date=2021|title=A Framework for IT Project Complexity Management|url=|journal=International Journal of Information Technology Project Management|publisher=IADIS IS 2021: 14th IADIS International Conference Information Systems|volume=|issue=|pages=61-6861–68|doi=|issn=}}</ref>

# '''Plan IT project complexity management:''' the process of red-flagging complex projects, and deciding on management strategies and tools.

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* [[Antifragility]]

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== References ==

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[[Category:Complex systems theory]]

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