ABSTRACT
Although 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, rethinking purpose and acting responsibly.
An increasingly borderless, upwardly mobile and entrepreneurial society requires a revamped and revitalised project perspective that is more dynamic, adaptive and reflective. This volume brings together some of the best writing by leading authorities on many key topics, including benchmarking, lean quality, communicating, teams and teamwork, followership, organising for project work, project frameworks, agile working, project portfolios, strategic initiatives, strategic alignment, trust, entrepreneurship, putting people first, social processes, positive organisations, rethinking progress, the hacker paradigm, community, stewardship and knowledge management. The collection thus offers an invaluable new resource for informed managers looking to engage with the latest thinking and research and for researchers seeking to reflect on how the discipline is changing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Introduction
part Chapter 1|18 pages
Quality
part Chapter 2|20 pages
Communication
part Chapter 3|21 pages
Teams
part Chapter 4|30 pages
Leadership
part Chapter 5|29 pages
Life Cycle
part Chapter 6|24 pages
Portfolios
part Chapter 7|25 pages
Entrepreneurship
part Chapter 8|18 pages
People
part Chapter 9|37 pages
Hacking
part Chapter 10|23 pages
Stewardship
part Chapter 11|20 pages
Knowledge
part |6 pages
Conclusion