Project Management in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know About the Elephant, Eco-system and Experience

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: The Elephant
	Oh, You’re a Project Manager That’s Nice. What Do You Do?
	In the Beginning
		Taylorism: Scientific Management
		Shewhartism: Statistical Quality Control
		Fordism: The Science of Mass Production
		Transformational Production Management
		Project Management
	Slaughtering Sacred Cows
		Lifting the Hood
		Taylorism
		Shewhartism
		Fordism
		Pardon Me but Your Hard Paradigm Is Showing
	…and how about that definition?
		What Does All This Mean?
	The Elephant
	The Value Problem
	References
2: The Eco-System
	The Big Bang, the Universe and Project Management
		Project Management and the Big Bang
		The Evolution of the Project Eco-System
	Creating the Project Eco-System
	Eco-System Level Provisioning Rules
		Time
		Finance
		Knowledge
		Summary
	Eco-System Level Regulating Rules
		Transfer Energy In
		Transfer Energy Out
		Transforming Energy
		Summary
	Eco-System Level Supporting Rules
		Political Stability
		Knowledge Bridging
		Summary
	Eco-System Level Culturalising Rules
		Shared Identity
		Shared Vision
		Summary
	References
3: The Project
	What Is a Project?
		What Is Competency?
	Managing Projects
	Project-Level Provisioning Rules
		One Provision to Rule Them All…
		Overcoming Constraints by Building in Safety Margins: A Recipe for Failure
		Provisioning and Constraint Management Through Buffers
		Summary
	Project-Level Regulating Rules
		Planning
		Monitoring
		Controlling
		Discipline
			Definition 1: Behaving in a Measured Way
			Definition 2: Training Others to Act According to a Certain Code of Behaviour
		Summary
	Project-Level Supporting Rules
		Expectation Management
		Sense-Making
		Optioneering
		Problem-Solving
			Project Management Design Thinking
		Consensus Building
		Summary
	Project-Level Culturalising Rules
		Leadership
		Team Building
		Storytelling
		Summary
	References
4: The Experience
	Understanding the Experience
		The Case of the Disappointing Success
		The Case of the Delightful Failure
	A Brief Introduction to Systemic Discourses and Coupling
	The Value Co-Creation Experience
		The 4C’s of Value Co-Creation
	Connection
	Comprehension
	Collaboration
	Coupling
	References
5: Closing Thoughts
	Time to Come Clean
	Oh, You’re a Project Manager; That’s Nice. What Do You Do?
	References