Mastering Project Leadership: Insights from the Research [Paperback]

In the challenging and competitive world of project management, project managers need all the insight they can get. This is collection of essays from key researchers in the field of project management provides practical insight based on the most impactful findings from research.

1. When Our Project Culture Fails Us: The Normalization of Deviance Trap 2. Balanced Leadership: Making Use of All Leadership Skills in the Project Team 3. Three Themes of Project Management 4. Before You Start Managing That Major Project, What You Should Know about Cost Overruns and Benefit Shortfalls 5. Why Well-Padded Projects Continue to Be Late 6. Are Agile Projects More Successful? 7. Managing Complex Projects 8. Managing the Benefits of Collaborative Projects 9. Agile, Traditional, and Hybrid Approaches to Project Success: Is Hybrid a Poor Second Choice? 10. Deadline.Dead-Line. Breathing Life into Projects 11. Our Love Affair with Project Slack (and Why It Ruins Our Schedule Accuracy) 12. How Principles Can Make Agile Benefits Realisation Successful 13. The Relationship Between Project Success and Project Efficiency 14. Youve Just Inherited Someone Elses Project: Now What?   15. Local Communities Stakeholder Defined. Identification and Categorization in Major Infrastructure Projects 16. What Planning Effort Optimizes Project Success? 17. Increasing Odds in Uncertain Times: Creating Value through Collaborative Learning

This is a collection of essays from key researchers in the field of project management who describe what they feel are the most impactful findings from research. In the challenging and competitive world of project management, project managers need all the insight they can get. Leading researchers share what they believe are the most important findings from the research being done today. These cover pressing topics confronting project managers, including hybrid methodologies, schedule overruns, scl³+