Conclusion

A new perspective on the project

When reading the implications for project management brought about by the inclusion of two new perspectives (contribution to a territory and lifecycle practice), some will be sure to think that these transformations are not up to the task of a true ecological transition. And we certainly need to explain why.

First of all, a project is by definition antithetical to degrowth.

Indeed, each of them is based on a postulate, even if implicit: that of bringing about a change within a context, which is intended to avoid depreciation of any kind. This objective, even if it does not concern the increase of a quantitative parameter, necessarily responds to the desire for better growth in the sense of an inflection given to a dynamic. A project is never a status quo, since it presages a future....