Leading Project Teams: An Introduction to the Basics of Project Management and Project Team Leadership - Softcover

Cobb, Anthony T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412909473 ISBN 13: 9781412909471

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Leading Project Teams provides a readable and accessible book on the basics of project management and team leadership. This book is intended as a supplemental text for any class or training situation where the instructor wants to integrate basic project and team leadership skills into his or her other instructional needs.

Leading Project Teams assumes little to no knowledge of project management and quickly leads the reader through the fundamentals including:

- How to start any project by establishing its basic direction, objectives, and deliverables; identifying key project stakeholders, and developing initial estimates of project needs.

- How to break down project work into assignable tasks and organize the project to establish command and control.

- How to estimate the work, resource, cost, and time requirements of any project.

- How to schedule project work with a focus on developing and using Gantt or bar charts.

- How to construct, develop, and lead project teams through the project′s life cycle.

- How to identify and work with a wide range of project stakeholders and develop the project leader′s social capital.

- How to identify and address the role expectations others have of all project leaders.

- How to write tight, clear project reports that meet the needs of decision makers and other key readers.

About this title

About the Author

Anthony T. (Terry) Cobb is an Associate Professor of Management at Virginia Tech.  Dr. Cobb has researched and taught in the areas of organizational behavior, organizational change and development, organizational skills and applications, organizational politics, organizational theory, and in management.  He has over fifteen years experience teaching Project Management, and has received the MBA Faculty Service Award from the Pamplin College of Business.  Dr. Cobb has served on the Executive Board of the Southern Management Association and on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Inquiry. He has also served as Department Head for the Department of Management at Virginia Tech.   Dr. Cobb’s has published his work in a variety of scholarly and professional outlets including such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Group and Organization Studies, Consultation, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, the Human Resource Development Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Change Management, and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.  Dr. Cobb’s work has been translated into German, Italian, and Chinese.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1412909473
• ISBN 13: 9781412909471
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184