REDUCING PROJECT COMPLEXITY WITH COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

To satisfy the ever-increasing challenges of today’s business, more and more tools and methods have to be integrated into modern project management. Coaching, continuous improvement, systemic intervention, root cause analysis, problem solving, theory of constraints, inventing options and system engineering are some of the actual buzzwords. We found out that a lot of processes from different knowledge areas are based on a six steps process: “define”, “analyse”, “solve”, “plan”, “do ” and “check”. From Cognitive Psychology we learn that the human brain always follows these steps to solve problems. This is our wa