ABSTRACT
This chapter moves away from the details of the 22 elements and outlines how collaboration can play a role in some of the more specialized or professional practices. These shared practices adapt standard project management to the requirements of collaboration, business, and delivery management. In the author’s experience, collaboration benefits arise from these best project practices – Organizational Accountability, Risk Management, Quality Management, and Resource Management. These practices can be used collaboratively, but to succeed they must be properly supported and formally applied. Accordingly, this chapter presents innovative models for each practice and describes how to apply collaborative techniques. These support the owner and provider when allocating stakeholder and team accountabilities, working together to identify planning and execution risks, and using four novel quality techniques to build quality into both the product and the project. This is a comprehensive description of how the owner and provider work together to solve problems typically addressed by the team working in their own project silo. Their role shifts from isolated doers to facilitators and solution advisors.
