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Traditional Project Management represents an organized way of dealing with the typical challenges stemming from uncertainty and complexity.

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Caron, F. (2013). Project Management. In: Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5244-4_4

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