ABSTRACT

Written by authors who have real-world experience of leading teams and major projects, this book explores a new approach to project success: the continuous process of enabling and empowering teams to reach the optimal levels of performance.

For decades, project managers have been asking the multi-million, and sometimes multi-billion-dollar question: why did the project fail? High project failure rates are nothing new and have been well documented, but when project professionals seek answers, they usually return to the original project plan to identify flaws. Yet there is one place where most don't look for the answers: the people. Here is the value gap of the almost untouched area of project team performance management that has the potential to be the next quantum leap in project success.

PMO leaders, change executives, HR professionals, project managers, program managers, and portfolio managers – anyone who leads a team in the project world – will learn how to make this critical investment for any organization which wishes to thrive in the ‘new normal’ project-based economy.

chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|1 pages

Part 1: Teams

chapter 3|1 pages

The history of teams

chapter 4|1 pages

The sociology of teams

chapter 5|2 pages

The case for teams

chapter 6|1 pages

It's not all roses

chapter 7|2 pages

Team diversity

chapter 8|3 pages

Teams of the future

chapter 9|4 pages

The human-centric organization1

chapter 11|1 pages

Where does this leave us?

chapter 12|3 pages

Team performance

chapter 13|1 pages

Servant leadership and team performance

chapter 14|5 pages

Sports psychology and team performance

chapter 15|8 pages

The secret superpower of team intelligence

chapter 17|3 pages

Leveraging AI for team effectiveness

chapter 18|1 pages

Long-term business benefits

chapter 19|1 pages

Conclusion

chapter 20|1 pages

Part 2: Projects

chapter 21|3 pages

Why projects (still) aren't successful

chapter 24|4 pages

It's all gone virtual

chapter 26|2 pages

Why does it even matter?

chapter 27|3 pages

The value of positive teams

chapter 28|4 pages

People first

chapter 29|2 pages

The truth about project team performance

chapter 30|2 pages

It is not big brother

chapter 31|4 pages

How is intelligence extracted from data?

chapter 32|3 pages

Project intelligence

chapter 33|1 pages

Part 3: Futures

chapter 34|1 pages

Old way – new way thinking

chapter 35|1 pages

T.e.a.m

chapter 36|1 pages

But this is an HR thing

chapter 38|1 pages

Part 4: Roadmap

chapter 39|2 pages

How to go about the transformation

chapter 40|2 pages

Gaining the team buy-in

chapter 41|1 pages

Dealing with manager accountability

chapter 42|1 pages

Securing the all-important sponsorship

chapter 43|1 pages

Steps to success

chapter 44|1 pages

A helping hand