Why human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make Projects succeed.
Successful project management guides the interplay of knowledge, projects, and people..
Successful organizations have a knowledge-based culture.
Drawing on examples and case studies from NASA and other organizations, the authors identify three project models--micro, macro, and global--and their different Knowledge needs.
The authors emphasize three themes: Projects are fundamentally about how teams work and learn together to get things done; the local level--not an organization\'s upper levels--is where the action happens; and Projects don\'t operate in a vacuum but exist within organizations that are responsible to stakeholders.
This paradigm-shifting book--by three project management experts, all of whom have decades of experience at NASA and elsewhere--challenges the conventional wisdom on project management, focusing on the human dimension: learning, collaboration, teaming, communication, and culture.
Projects run on knowledge.
Human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make Projects successful.
Project management emphasizes control, processes, and tools--but, according to The Smart Mission, that is not the right way to run a project.
Software applications, antiviral vaccines, launch-ready spacecraft: all were produced by a team and managed as a project.
The project is the basic unit of work in many industries.
Why human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make Projects succeed
