Mastering Project Discovery : Successful Discipline in Engineering and Analytics Projects

Mastering Project Discovery Successful Discipline in Engineering and Analytics Projects

Introducing a comprehensive approach to invigorate project leadership, this book provides a framework - the OUtCoMES Cycle - for developing, managing, advancing, and optimizing engineering and analytics projects.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bendoly, Elliot, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Routledge [2024]
Edición:First edition
Materias:
Information technology projects > Management.
Project management.
Software engineering > Management.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Author's Overview
  • Introduction: "What's the Problem?
  • Part I: Virtuosity
  • Chapter 1: The Value of Structure and Alternatives
  • 1.1 The Best Kinds of Problems to Have
  • 1.2 The OUtCoMES Cycle: An Overview
  • 1.3 Valuing Your Toolbox, Not Just the Hammer
  • 1.4 Documenting Structure and Alternatives
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: Picking the Right Problems
  • 2.1 Forms of Objectives
  • 2.1.1 Managerial versus Analytical Objectives
  • 2.1.2 Fundamental versus Means Objectives
  • 2.2 Formulating Candidate Objectives
  • 2.3 Evaluating and Prioritizing
  • 2.3.1 Transparency as an Objective Criterion
  • 2.3.2 Plasticity as an Objective Criterion
  • 2.3.3 Fit as an Objective Criterion
  • 2.4 Plan Bs and Alternative Hypotheses
  • Note
  • Chapter 3: The Shape of Causes and Correlates
  • 3.1 Utilities: Levers to Impact and Advance Objectives
  • 3.2 Connections: The Nature and Course of Impact
  • 3.3 The Virtues of Structured Documentation
  • Chapter 4: Systematic Mental and Analytical Models
  • 4.1 Manifest
  • 4.2 Explicate
  • 4.3 Scrutinize
  • 4.4 Documentation and Alignment
  • 4.5 Looking Back on the Process
  • Part II: Orchestration
  • Chapter 5: Synergies in Numerical and Visual Tactics
  • 5.1 Coordinating Analytical Methods
  • 5.1.1 Tactics Used in Descriptive Analysis
  • 5.1.2 Tactics Used in Predictive Analysis
  • 5.1.3 Tactics Used in Prescriptive Analysis
  • 5.2 Visually Augmenting Analytical Communication
  • Chapter 6: Leading Discovery in Projects and Programs
  • 6.1 The Five Phases of Team Development
  • 6.1.1 Forming
  • 6.1.2 Storming
  • 6.1.3 Norming
  • 6.1.4 Performing
  • 6.1.5 Adjourning
  • 6.2 The Role of Project Leaders
  • 6.2.1 Focusing on Conflict
  • 6.2.2 Focusing on Knowledge
  • 6.2.3 Focusing on Communication
  • 6.2.4 Focusing on Learning.
  • 6.2.5 Fostering Psychological Safety
  • 6.2.6 Collective Knowledge
  • 6.3 Project Team Member Roles
  • Chapter 7: Organizational Memory and Learning
  • 7.1 Project Leadership at Its Best
  • 7.1.1 Shared Leadership
  • 7.1.2 Empowering Leadership
  • 7.1.3 Collective Leadership
  • 7.2 Collective Responsibility
  • 7.3 Memory and Learning
  • 7.3.1 Transactive Memory Systems
  • 7.3.2 TMS and Project-Critical Action
  • 7.4 Driving Transactive Memory in Project Teams
  • Conclusion: Discovery Mastered
  • Glossary of Key Terms
  • References
  • Appendix A: A Packing Exercise (Chapter 1)
  • Appendix B: About the Authors
  • Index.

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