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TeamWork and Project Management, 4/e
Karl A. Smith, University of Minnesota

ISBN: 0073534900
Copyright year: 2014

Table of Contents


  1. Teamwork and Project Management in Engineering and Related Disciplines
    1. What is engineering?
      1. Ruth Streveler Reflection
      2. David Radcliffe Reflection – The courage to engineer
    2. Engineering design
      1. Shawn Jordan Reflection
    3. Teamwork and engineering
    4. Fundamental tools for the next generation of engineers and project managers
      1. Anthony Starfield Reflection – Modeling heuristics
      2. Tamara Moore Reflection – Modeling thinking
    5. Reflection: Teamwork and project management in engineering


  2. Framing and Aligning the Project and Team
    1. Reflection on exploration and exploitation


  3. Teamwork Basics
    1. Definition of a team
      1. David Radcliffe Reflection – Agile careers in “permanent beta”
    2. Team structure and organization
      1. Holly Matusovich Reflection - Value the Differences That Motivate People and Harness them for Maximal Engagement
    3. Reflection: On diversity
    4. A theory of effective teams
    5. Stages of team development
    6. Balancing challenge and support
    7. Emerging ideas
    8. Reflection: Interdependence and teamwork


  4. Teamwork Skills and Problem Solving
    1. Importance of task and relationship
    2. Organization – Team norms
    3. Teamwork skills
    4. Communication
    5. Leadership
    6. Reflection: That reminds me of a story
    7. Decision making
    8. Conflict management
    9. Teamwork challenges and problems
    10. Reflection: Teamwork


  5. Effective Interpersonal Skills for Teamwork and Project Management – Cliff Whitcomb & Leslie Whitcomb
    1. Communication contexts
    2. Basics of shared communication systems exchanges
    3. Technical and interpersonal space, face, and place spectrum
    4. Six step cycle for problem solving
    5. Project scenario and dialogue
    6. Bringing it all together


  6. Joining Existing Teams, Projects and Organizations – Russell Korte
    1. Getting on-board: Learning the ropes of working in teams
    2. What’s this all about? Background research on socialization
    3. ‘First, get to know them’ Beginning the socialization process
    4. Getting beyond ‘the new guy’ label: Becoming an experienced and valued member of the team
    5. Meeting expectations and realizing the ‘real work’ of teams
    6. Achieving membership: Do you identify with your team?
    7. Sink or swim, the trial by fire, and other challenges for newcomers
    8. What makes for a high performance team culture?


  7. Innovation in a Team Environment – Senay Purzer & Nicholas D. Fila
    1. What is innovation?
    2. Definitions of innovation
    3. Kathryn Jablokow Reflection
    4. Eric Berkowitz Reflection
    5. Team diversity and innovation
    6. Conclusions


  8. Agile Teams and Projects – Robert MacNeal
    1. The nature of change
    2. The agile manifesto
    3. Characteristics of agile projects
    4. Agile design
    5. The lean startup


  9. Project Management Principles and Practices
    1. What is a project?
    2. Exploration versus exploitation projects
    3. Keys to project success
    4. Project life cycle
    5. Project scoping and planning
    6. Reflection: Project management


  10. The Project Manager’s Role
    1. Changes in the workplace
    2. Changes in project management
    3. Participating in and managing multidisciplinary teams
    4. Project manager’s role over the project life cycle
    5. Reflection: Professor as project manager


  11. Project Scheduling
    1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    2. Critical Path Method (CPM)
    3. The role of computer-based project management software
    4. Reflection: Avoiding analysis paralysis


  12. Team and Project Monitoring and Evaluation
    1. Meetings
      1. Shannon Ciston Reflection – Meeting minutes (and agendas)
    2. Team charters
    3. Monitoring team effectiveness
    4. Team talk analysis
    5. Peer assessment
      1. Matt Ohland Reflection – Focus on what your teammates do rather than what you think of them
    6. Self assessment
    7. Project evaluation
    8. Building quality into projects
    9. Reflection: Paying attention


  13. Skills and strategies for effective project documentation – Connie Kampf
    1. Skills and strategies for project documentation
    2. Project communication
    3. Communication patterns of engineers
    4. Reflection: Documentation


  14. Project Management Tools
    1. Smartphones and tablets
    2. Project management software
    3. Project management and the World Wide Web
    4. Curt McNamara Reflection – There is more to a project than a plan


  15. Teamwork for the Future – Curt McNamara
    1. Khairiyah Mohd Yusof Reflection – Coping with change in learning
    2. The context for teamwork
    3. Viewing a team or project as a system
    4. Living systems
    5. Complex adaptive systems
    6. Diversity
    7. Team learning and exploration


  16. Where to Go from Here
    1. Reflection on the state of the world – Global interdependence
    2. Mary Pilotte Reflection
    3. Closing reflection: On reflection

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