Leading Project Teams: An Introduction to the Basics of Project Management and Project Team Leadership

"Leading Project Teams" assumes little to no knowledge of project management and quickly leads the reader through the fundamentals including: how to start any project by establishing its basic direction, objectives, and deliverables, identifying key project stakeholders, and developing initial estimates of project needs; how to break down project work into assignable tasks and organize the project to establish command and control; how to estimate the work, resource, cost, and time requirements of any project; how to schedule project work with a focus on developing and using Gantt or bar charts; how to construct, develop, and lead project teams through the project's life cycle; how to identify and work with a wide range of project stakeholders and develop the project leader's social capital; how to identify and address the role expectations others have of all project leaders; and how to write tight, clear project reports that meet the needs of decision makers and other key readers.