Month: December 2022

Throughout the various project performance domains, there is a need to recognize bias, identify the root cause of problems, and consider challenging issues, such as ambiguity, complexity, and so forth. Critical thinking helps to accomplish these activities. Critical thinking includes disciplined, rational, logical, evidence-based thinking. It requires an open mind and the ability to analyze… Continue reading Critical Thinking

Every project has a purpose. Understanding that purpose is critical for people to commit their time and energy in the right direction toward achieving the project purpose. The project vision summarizes the project’s purpose clearly and succinctly. It describes a realistic, attractive view of the future project outcomes. In addition to briefly describing the desired… Continue reading Establishing and Maintaining Vision

Leadership skills are useful for all project team members whether the project team is operating in an environment with a centralized authority or a shared leadership environment. The following sections describe some of the traits and activities associated with leadership.

One goal of effective leadership is to create a high-performing project team. There are a number of factors that contribute to high-performing project teams. The list below is not comprehensive, but it identifies some of the factors associated with high-performing project teams.

Each project team develops its own team culture. The project team’s culture may be established deliberately by developing project team norms, or informally through the behaviors and actions of its project team members. The project team culture operates within the organization’s culture but reflects the project team’s individual ways of working and interacting. Human beings… Continue reading PROJECT TEAM CULTURE

Regardless of how the management activities are structured, there are common aspects of project team development that are relevant for most project teams. These include: There are several models that describe the stages of project team growth included in Section 4. When project teams form across different organizations based on a contract, strategic partnership, or other… Continue reading Common Aspects of Team Development

Sometimes project management activities are shared among a project management team, and project team members are responsible for completing the work. There are also situations where a project team may self-organize to complete a project. Rather than having a designated project manager, someone within the project team may serve as facilitator to enable communication, collaboration,… Continue reading Distributed Management and Leadership

While leadership activities should be practiced by all project team members, management activities may be centralized or distributed. In an environment where management activities are centralized, accountability (being answerable for an outcome), is usually assigned to one individual, such as the project manager or similar role. In these situations, a project charter or other authorizing… Continue reading Centralized Management and Leadership

Project management entails applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques for management activities as well as leadership activities. Management activities focus on the means of meeting project objectives, such as having effective processes, planning, coordinating, measuring, and monitoring work, among others. Leadership activities focus on people. Leadership includes influencing, motivating, listening, enabling, and other activities having… Continue reading PROJECT TEAM MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

Table 2-2 identifies the outcomes on the left and ways of checking them on the right. Table 2-2. Checking Outcomes—Stakeholder Performance Domain 2.2 TEAM PERFORMANCE DOMAIN Figure 2-4. Team Performance Domain This performance domain entails establishing the culture and environment that enables a collection of diverse individuals to evolve into a high-performing project team. This includes… Continue reading CHECKING RESULTS