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Effective Project Management, 8th Edition
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Effective Project Management, 8th Edition

by Robert K. Wysocki
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
656 pages
18h 5m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 4What Is a Collaborative Project Team?

The hammer must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

—Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher

Very small groups of highly skilled generalists show a remarkable propensity to succeed.

—Ramchandran Jaikumar, Harvard Business School

CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Understand the project landscape and how it is applied
  • Know the importance of meaningful client involvement
  • Understand how a collaborative environment can contribute to the success of a project
  • Know the benefits of using the Co‐Manager model for your project team
  • How to establish and maintain meaningful client involvement.
  • Understand how to manage meaningful client involvement
  • How client ownership relates to complex project success
  • Know who the stakeholders are in an ECPM Framework project
  • Understanding the stakeholders' roles in an ECPM Framework project
  • The importance of the co‐project manager in complex projects

Chapter 2 introduced the project landscape and the variety of challenging project situations that we might encounter. A good first question might be: What kind of a team structure and management will be needed? Above all the team and its managers must be creative and flexible. That's the question we will answer in this chapter.

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