The term ‘project resilience’ is now appearing more and more often in scientific literature in the field of project management.
Based on research literature references, it should be said that the term project resilience is still new and is still under further scientific considerations. However, it is worth looking into the definition of this term and understand how exactly project resilience is defined in the area of project management.
Among the various definitions available, I chose one that particularly appealed to me. According to the definition, which I selected, project resilience is defined as “ the art of noticing, interpreting, containing, preparing for and recovering from disruption.”* In more simple, practical words, it says about project’s ability to recover and adapt to change caused by unexpected events.
There is no doubt that projects, being a form of temporary organizations, are often impacted by different disruptions. However, it is crucial to manage them in a way which enable effective project delivery despite uncertainty, adversity and significant barriers which come up in the complex and dynamic project context. Disruptions in projects may affect everything in project life cycle from the area of costs, quality and time, technical scope, communication and strategic objectives. It means that responding to these disruptions might be a real challenge