This book draws on an untraditional NASA program called the Learning Through Stories Project, which addressed the performance of government projects. The goal of the Project and the book is to turn tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, so that readers can incorporate the accounts and experiences of the professionals involved into their own work. Drawing on more than 75 such stories, the authors provide hands-on solutions in a narrative style which acts as a self-training tool.

This new classic is an examination of how to refigure project management to be more efficient and effective, particularly in terms of leadership. Using a case study approach, the author, Alex Laufer presents a specific set of guidelines on how to improve the team approach to any project, be it a new airline jet or an IT project.

This new classic is an examination of how to refigure project management to be more efficient and effective, particularly in terms of leadership. Using a case study approach, the author, Alex Laufer presents a specific set of guidelines on how to improve the team approach to any project, be it a new airline jet or an IT project.

This book blends academic rigor and real world experience on the agile and planning schools of project management and the process of becoming a project leader.

To some, project management is all about logically and rationally planning out dependencies and mapping them out into a flawless plan; a plan that must be rigorously and undeviatingly followed in all its geometric perfection. To others it is about agility - 15 minute scrum meetings and responding on the fly to the unpredictable exigencies that the randomness of the living, breathing world throws up.

In reality, smart...