Sustaining and developing disciplinary expertise in project-based organizations balanced and integrated solutions
What different types of solutions for organizing disciplinary expertise have developed in project-based firms that rely extensively on interdisciplinary and co-located project teams? In Sustaining and Developing Disciplinary Expertise in Project-Based Organizations: Balanced and Integrated Solutio...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newtown Square, Pennsylvania :
Project Management Institute, Inc
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630172906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Chapter 1 - Introduction; In Search of Solutions to a Well-Known Challenge; Purpose and Research Questions; A Reader's Guide; Chapter 2 - On Disciplinary Expertise in Project-Based Organizations; Project-Based Organizations for Knowledge Integration; The Need for T-Shaped Skills; Co-Location of Project Teams: Dispersal of Disciplinary Expertise; Interdisciplinary Teamwork: A Gain in Breadth, A Loss in Depth?; How can Project-Based Organizations Deal with the Problem?; Shifting between the Extremes
- Disciplinary ExpertiseKnowledge; Knowing; Contextualizing; Disciplinary Expertise: The KKC Framework; Chapter 3 - Methodology; Approaching the Field and Selecting the Companies; Selecting Informants and Conducting Interviews; Writing up, Analyzing, And Comparing the Cases; Chapter 4 - Software Inc.; The Organizational Setup; From Functionally based Line Units to Feature-Driven Cross-Functional Teams; The Cross-Functional Teams and their Knowledge; Disciplinary Expertise; The Importance of Product Knowledge; The Broadening of Product and Disciplinary Knowledge
- Sustaining Access to Deep Disciplinary and Product KnowledgeThe Organizational Setup from the Perspective of Disciplinary Experts; Cross-Functional Teams going for Knowledge Breadth; The New Setup: A Double-Edged Sword; Ways of Sustaining and Developing Disciplinary Knowledge; Communities of Practice; CoPs with a Disciplinary Focus; The GTE Community and Product CoPs; Wikis and Intranet Fora; Summary and Concluding Remarks; Chapter 5 - Sentio; The Organizational Setup; The Product-Based Line Organization and the Core Design Team; The Cross-Functional Teams and their Knowledge
- The Cross-Functional Teams and Cross-Team SupportThe Organizational Setup from the Point of View of Team Members; Cross-Functional Teams for Increased Expertise; The Cross-Functional Teams and their Knowledge; Ways of Sustaining and Developing Expertise; The Management Perspective; A Broad Spectrum of Activities and Arenas; An Overview of Different Competence Development Activities; Disciplinary Activities; Cross-Team Testing and System Testing; Courses and Conferences; Professional and Web-Based Communities; Other Activities; Summary and Concluding Remarks
- Chapter 7 - Organizational Solutions for Sustaining Disciplinary Expertise
