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A project team is critical to project success which in turn leads to success of an organization. Projects are routinely conceived and executed to operationalize strategic objectives of organizations. Managing a project is challenging, as project managers and project team deal with both internal and external challenges. Complicating it further, developing, managing, and leading teams for traditional and agile projects are quite different. Furthermore, virtual teams present additional challenges for managing global projects.
Additional challenges arise when many generations from Baby Boomers to Generation Y work together in the workplace today. A systematic structuring and developing project teams is critical for successful project performance and for a strong collaborative team effort.
This book details:
Team development
Team process
Team performance
Social and behavioral skills
Project Teams addresses all these topics in detail and offers a practical approach to managing projects successfully in the current business environment by including concepts, processes, techniques, and tools to manage and enhance performance of project teams and projects.
This book is for project management professionals and management in the corporate world and will also be a useful resource for academic institutions in teaching management and project management disciplines.
About the author
Dr. Vittal Anantatmula is a professor in the College of Business, Western Carolina University, a campus of University of North Carolina. He is also a global guest professor at Keio University, Yokohama, Japan and Skema Business School, France. He is a member of the Project Management Institute's Academic Insight Team and served as a director and board member of the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Center (PMI-GAC) from 2016 to 2021. In the past, Dr. Anantatmula taught at the George Washington University. He has authored more than 100 publications including fourteen books. He received his PhD from The George Washington University and he is a certified project management professional (PMP).
