Project Management
Advanced project management techniques are no longer only for a few large corporations. Today, a vast variety of organisations across a wide range of industries rely on qualified project managers to m…
Fangyuan Shen
Lecturer of Projects and Operations Management
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Biography
Fangyuan Shen is a Lecturer in Projects and Operations Management at the Department of Operations, Technology, Events, and Hospitality Management, School of Business and Law, Manchester Metropolitan University. She successfully defended her PhD research project in Management of Projects in May 2023 at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering at The University of Manchester. With a solid academic foundation, Fangyuan also holds two Master’s degrees, one in Public Administration & Policy (MA) and another in Commercial Project Management (MSc). Furthermore, she gained valuable professional experience as an analyst at a prominent UK management consultancy firm.
Fangyuan’s research focus lies at the intersection of agile methodologies, operational agility, agile coaching, and the intricate dynamics among agile tailoring stakeholders. Her work is dedicated to advancing people’s understanding of how agile practices can be tailored to suit diverse project environments, fostering operational agility, and enhancing stakeholder relationships in the agile ecosystem.
Interests and expertise
Research Interests: Agile, Organisational Agility, Agile Transformation, Agile coaching, relationship management, Management Consulting
Sports: Ski, Snowboard
Impact
• Facilitated stakeholder management on Cities & Environment External Stakeholder Workshop, hosted by Digital Futures
and The University of Manchester in October 2020.
• Chairing online conference sessions on AMPS International Conference of Intangible Heritages, Canterbury in June 2022.
• Reviewed papers for the Decision-Making Under Uncertainty Track, BAM 2021 conference.
• Membership of Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
• Membership of Association for Project Management (APM)
• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Membership of Agile Alliance
Projects
Review of Agility studies during COVID-19 pandemic-an ADO framework review
Embracing agile to SMEs: agile method tailoring case studies
Agile coaching and relationship management between agile coaches and agile teams
Teaching
Supervision
Supervise UG students on Business Technology Project
Supervise PGT students on PGT Dissertation
Research outputs
• Book chapter
Shen, F. & Stewart, I. 2021. What does ‘tailoring’ mean in agile method tailoring? A concept-centric analysis of existing
understandings of agile method tailoring. In: J. Montgomery (ed.), AMPS Proceedings Series 24.1. Cities in a Changing
World, Virtual. ISSN 2398-9467. 16 – 18 June (2021). pp.320-333.
• Conference Proceedings and Papers
Shen, F. & Stewart, I. 2022. Argument mapping of the proposed benefits of agility and agile practice adoption in construction
projects. ARCOM Conference 2022. Glasgow, UK.
Shen, F. & Stewart, I. 2021. ‘Smart and Sustainable’ in Smart City Project Management: from City-level Initiative to Project-level
Management Strategy. International Conference for Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society 2021. Leeds, UK.
Winner of Best Paper - Smart and Sustainable Cities
Shen, F. & Stewart, I. 2021. ‘Agility’ for a post-covid world - a continuation of diffusion of agile practices or management fad? A
review using argument mapping to examine the possibilities of applying agile strategies as a countermeasure to COVID-19
pandemic. BAM Conference 2021. Lancaster, UK.
• Conference presented:
Shen, F. 2022. Process Agility in University Lab Management during COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study of a university Electron
Microscopy Lab. The European Conference on Education (ECE) 2022. London, UK.
Shen, F. & Stewart, I. 2022. Argument Mapping Analysis of Leagile Strategy in Construction Management Research. 4th
International Conference on Research in Management. Oxford, UK.