Project Management in the Digital Age: Software, Systems, and Socio-Technical Complexity

By John Ogbeleakhu Aliu, Rejoice Dorcas Madaki, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke

This book introduces a modern, evidence-based way of understanding technology projects, explains why traditional management techniques need to evolve in complex digital environments, and shows how adaptive leadership enables teams to navigate uncertainty.

Technology projects are no longer defined by stable requirements, predictable technologies, or linear execution. Yet many organisations continue to manage them as if they were. The result is persistent failure, frustration, and wasted investment.

Project management in the digital age offers a fundamentally different perspective. Grounded in empirical evidence and real-world experience, this book reframes technology projects as sociotechnical systems, complex, adaptive environments where outcomes emerge from the interaction of people, technology, and organisational context.

Moving beyond traditional planning and control, the book positions adaptive leadership as the central capability required for success. Readers are introduced to practical frameworks for navigating complexity, making decisions under uncertainty, and selecting delivery approaches that fit real conditions rather than ideological preferences. Drawing on concepts such as complexity science, the Cynefin framework, agile and DevOps practices, and organisational learning, the book provides both intellectual clarity and practical guidance.

Written for professionals, students, and researchers alike, Technology Project Management equips readers to move beyond methodology debates and develop the judgment, sense making ability, and leadership capability that contemporary technology projects demand.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3032407044
• ISBN13: 9783032407047
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Springer