1st Edition
Rethinking Project Management for a Dynamic and Digital World
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.
Introduction
Rethinking the Future of Project Management
Darren Dalcher
1. Quality
The Quest for Supreme Performance: Benchmarking to Save Lives
Darren Dalcher
Lean Quality in Construction Project Delivery: A New Model and Principles
John Oakland and Marton Marosszeky
2. Communication
Communicating Beyond Our Hidden Assumptions
Darren Dalcher
Communicating Project Management: A Participatory Rhetoric for Development Teams
Benjamin Lauren
3. Teams
From Teams and Teamwork to Teaming
Darren Dalcher
Leading Brainy Teams
Peter Cook
4. Leadership
The Followership Advantage: Reconfiguring Leadership for Success
Darren Dalcher
Human-Centred Management: A Systemic Interrelation
Roland Bardy
5. Life Cycle
Organising for Project Work: Thinking beyond Project Delivery
Darren Dalcher
The Project Framework: Understanding Gates and Stages
Robert Buttrick
6. Portfolios
Organising for Success in Project Portfolios, Initiatives and Strategies
Darren Dalcher
Strategic Goal Alignment and Portfolio Stakeholder Management
John Wyzalek
7. Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Turn: Repositioning Projects as Successful Ventures
Darren Dalcher
Effectual Project Management: Thinking Like an Expert Entrepreneur
Laura Mathiaszyk, Christine Volkmann and Stuart Read
8. People
Building from The Inside: The Power of Social Organising
Darren Dalcher
Social Process for Project Leaders
Ian Macdonald, Catherine Burke and Karl Stewart
9. Hacking
Hacking Innovation: Revisiting Teams, Productivity and Limits
Darren Dalcher
How to Herd Cats: The Art of The Hacker Paradigm Leadership
Tim Rayner
10. Stewardship
Taking Responsibility for Our Actions: Why It Is Time to Think About Stewardship
Darren Dalcher
A Strategic Approach to Product Stewardship
Helen Lewis
11. Knowledge
The Mind of the Maker: Making Sense of Knowledge
Darren Dalcher
Through the Knowledge Lens: KM Adventures in Project-Land
Judy Payne, Eileen J. Roden and Steve Simister
Conclusion
Rebooting Project Management for A Brighter Future
Darren Dalcher
Biography
Darren Dalcher is Professor in Strategic Project Management at Lancaster University Management School and Director of the National Centre for Project Management. He has written 400 papers, articles and book chapters and published over 30 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process and Editor of the Routledge Frontiers in Project Management book series. Darren is an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Project Management (APM) and author and co-editor of the 7th edition of the APM Body of Knowledge.
