Abstract
Project management is usually carried out by the hierarchy paradigm. In this situation, the possibility of autonomous decentralized operation in project management is studied in this paper. The autonomous decentralized operation was classified to three types from the viewpoint of overall optimum / partial optimum and mode of operation. The characteristics of the three types of the operation ware analyzed. The operation can make project members vitalized and can solve problems in a project much more carefully than the hierarchy paradigm operation. It looks suitable to take the western style of hierarchy paradigm project operation. However, this paper explains the usefulness of the field paradigm which was adopted in Japan from old days. The field paradigm can be taken with the hierarchy paradigm at the same time.
