Description
Book SynopsisAlthough project management is a newly recognised profession, it deals with a number of significant challenges. We seem to operate in an unprecedented environment, rife with change, innovation and turbulence. Moreover, projects by their very nature tend to push boundaries, encourage novelty and demand engagement with the uncertain and the unknown. Indeed, projects reflect our organised impulse to constantly amend, shape, improve and refine our context. So how can future projects overcome the challenges?
Rethinking Project Management for a Dynamic and Digital World makes a powerful and original statement equipping project leaders and managers with new approaches and frameworks for an increasingly demanding world where the traditional methods, models and mindsets no longer suffice. The book explores new trends, promising ideas and novel concepts and distils the fundamentals for marshalling a world concerned with people, communities and value by deploying innovation
Table of Contents
Introduction. Rethinking the future of Project Management by Darren Dalcher. 1. Quality The Quest for Supreme Performance: Benchmarking to Save Lives by Darren Dalcher. Lean Quality in Construction Project Delivery: A New Model and Principles by John Oakland and Marton Marosszeky. 2. Communication Communicating Beyond Our Hidden Assumptions by Darren Dalcher. Communicating Project Management: A Participatory Rhetoric for Development Teams by Benjamin Lauren. 3. Teams From Teams and Teamwork to Teaming by Darren Dalcher Leading Brainy Teams by Peter Cook. 4. Leadership The Followership Advantage: Reconfiguring Leadership for Success by Darren Dalcher. Human-Centred Management: A Systemic Interrelation by Roland Bardy. 5. Life Cycle Organising for Project Work: Thinking beyond Project Delivery by Darren Dalcher. The Project Framework: Understanding Gates and Stages by Robert Buttrick. 6. Portfolios Organising for Success in Project Portfolios, Initiatives and Strategies by Darren Dalcher. Strategic Goal Alignment and Portfolio Stakeholder Management by John Wyzalek. 7. Entrepreneurship The Entrepreneurship Turn: Repositioning Projects as Successful Ventures by Darren Dalcher Effectual Project Management: Thinking Like an Expert Entrepreneur by Laura Mathiaszyk, Christine Volkmann and Stuart Read. 8. People Building from The Inside: The Power of Social Organising by Darren Dalcher. Social Process for Project Leaders by Ian Macdonald, Catherine Burke and Karl Stewart. 9. Hacking Hacking Innovation: Revisiting Teams, Productivity and Limits by Darren Dalcher. How to Herd Cats: The Art of The Hacker Paradigm Leadership by Tim Rayner. 10. Stewardship Taking Responsibility for Our Actions: Why It Is Time to Think About Stewardship by Darren Dalcher. A Strategic Approach to Product Stewardship by Helen Lewis. 11. Knowledge The Mind of the Maker: Making Sense of Knowledge by Darren Dalcher. Through the Knowledge Lens: KM Adventures in Project-Land by Judy Payne, Eileen J. Roden and Steve Simister. 12. Conclusion Rebooting Project Management for A Brighter Future by Darren Dalcher.
