This volume brings together selected and extended papers representative of work presented at the 8th IPMA Research Conference, which was held online between 9th and 11th September 2020. It explores the topics of project, programme and portfolio management, and self-organizing in and through projects.

Offering international and multidisciplinary perspectives, this book answers questions such as:

What is the impact of self-organization on organizational structures, processes, cultures and leadership?How can we define the transformative power of self-organization?What is the motivation of individuals to perform activities, to engage with others and organizations in order to get things done?Which kinds of leadership best support self-organizing in projects?What have disciplines like natural science, psychology, philosophy, sociology and management to offer in this respect?What are the cultural limitations and potentials regarding self-organization in projects and how do we deal with them?

Research on Project, Programme and Portfolio Management is a valuable resource for all researchers and project management professionals interested in autonomous working and self-organizing.

ProfessorRonggui Ding has a PhD in system engineering, and is currently Professor at the Management School of Shandong University. He won the "Excellent Talent in the New Century" award, run by the Ministry of Education. His professional activities include being the Global Research Coordinator for the International Project Management Association (IPMA), one of the judges of the IPMA Global Project Excellence Award, and a Chinese Committee board member for the Global Project Management Degree Accreditation Center of Project Management Institute (PMI). He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Project Management Review and an associate editor of Project Leadership and Society. He is the Lead Investigator for a number of competitive research grants funded by the national bodies such as China National Natural Science Fund and China National Soft Science Fund. He has been awarded a number of scientific and technological awards at the provincial and ministerial level.

Reinhard Wagner has been active for more than 35 years in the field of project-related leadership, in such diverse sectors as Automotive, Engineering, and Consultancy, as well as various not-for-profit organizations. As Managing Director of Tiba Managementberatung GmbH, a leading PM Consultancy in Munich/Germany, he supports executives of industrial clients in transforming their companies towards a project-oriented, adaptive and sustainably successful organization. Reinhard Wagner has published 37 books as well as several hundred articles and blog posts in the field of project, program and project portfolio management. In more than 20 years of voluntary engagement he served the German Project Management Association (GPM) as well as the IPMA in various roles and was granted Honorary Fellowship of IPMA and several of its member associations.

Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea is a Professor of Project Management and Management Information Systems at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. She has a Ph.D. in Economic Cybernetics and Statistics, on the topic of knowledge management systems for Research, Development and Innovation Management. Starting in 2014, she is also a Senior Researcher at Centre for Industrial and Services Economics, Romanian Academy of Sciences. Her research is focused on knowledge management systems, service innovation and technology-enhanced teaching and learning in project, programme and portfolio management. She has co-authored or edited more than 50 books and book chapters, and has published more than 350 papers in journals and conferences proceedings.

1. Introduction.- 2. A Systematic Approach to Agile Management and Self-Organization for a Sustainable Transformation of Organizations.- 3. Identifying Organizational Issue for Digital Transformation by Analyzing IT Dispute Cases.- 4. Sensemaking by Project Managers; Previous Research, Present Findings, and Future Direction.- 5. Identification of Governance Structures for Private Public Partnership (PPP) Project through Social Network Analysis.- 6. Motivating Self-Organizing Agile Teams in New Technology-Based Firms: An Exploratory Study.- 7. A New Model of Project, Program, and Portfolio Recovery to Tackle Covid-19 in Construction Projects.- 8. Let us Integrate Self-Organisation and Stakeholders into the Development of Infrastructure Projects, Because We Need More Creativity and Satisfying Solutions.- 9. Rapid Literature Review on Danish Megaproject Studies: Taking Stock and Moving Forward.- 10. Evaluation of Managerial Flexibilities in Critical Path Method Based Construction Schedules.- 11. How Construction Projects Can Be Agile.- 12. New Work Can Increasing Self-Organization Contribute to a New Design of Work?.- 13. Open Innovation in Practice Challenges and Results in Telecommunication Sector.- 14. Value-Orientated Decision Making in Agile Project Portfolios.- 15. Energy Entropy Structure of a Project-Oriented Organization.- 16. Self-Organizing Project Management with Critical Thinking in Infodemic vs Pandemic COVID 2019.- 17. Revisiting Shenhar and DVIRS Diamond Model: Do We Need an Upgrade?.- 18. Client Experience on Projects.- 19. Self-Awareness, Assessment and Organization with Personal Agility.- 20. Insights of a Transformation Journey in an Agile Environment.- 21. Invitation to Experiments with Organizational Change.