Leading Project Teams
The Basics of Project Management and Team Leadership
- Anthony T. Cobb - Virginia Tech, USA
New to the Second Edition:
- New chapter on Risk Assessment
- New coverage of running effective team meetings
- Offers real world scenarios: Each chapter opens with a real-world project problem faced by a project leader. Selected from a wide range of industries—from academia to business to health care—each situation portrays how project work applies to real project problems in a variety of settings.
- Identifies key expectations of project leaders: Concrete advice is given on leading project teams across a number of important leadership issues and on how project leaders should develop and guide project team members.
- Provides quick-learning project tools: Many accessible tools are provided to help readers understand the basics of project management such as the work breakdown structure and project scheduling. Extensive coverage on team literature is offered to help students learn the basics of team construction and team dynamics.
This text can be used as additional course material
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This text works perfectly with their service-learning team assignment.
prefer current text
Too applied, not advanced enough for doctoral seminar; not enough research review, and research that is cited tends to be dated
The book contains insufficient examples and diagrams, and is too text-heavy to appeal to the mainly undergraduates in my project management class. Also, quantitative or analytical topics like risk analysis and scheduling are not covered in sufficient depth, so I would need to supplement several topics. Finally, the title of the book is "Leading Project Teams," but the first half of the book is more about technical skills (developing a charter, the WBS, scheduling, risk management). I expected more of a focus on the soft skills of leadership, which is difficult to teach, and I wanted to see how this author approached the topic.
We were looking for a more basic approach to the concepts of Project Management for this 200 level course. It provides the key concepts with examples and was well received with test group.
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A clear overview of project management ! An essential guide to develop coherent projects
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