Resolve Project Conflicts

Abstract

The project conflicts are viewed as various contradictions existing in project managements. There would be no projects without conflicts. In other words, projects are born with conflicts. Ubiquitous conflicts consist in both classic project aims, such as time limit, cost and quality, and expectations of the project stakeholders. Therefore, project managers are the managers of conflicts to some degree. If you want to manage conflicts well, you would be required to know the sources and features of the conflicts, catch principal contradictions and principal aspects of the conflict, and find approaches to solve conflicts through internal and external relationships of things.

The approaches through which you want to set out to solve contradictions without looking through the totality and all aspects of them, but repudiating the necessity of analyzing the features of contradictions deeply and meticulously, having only a brief impression of contradictions by standing aside and looking afar will never succeed.

—Mao Zedong • Contradiction