MIT Press Smart Mission NASA's Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects, The

The Smart Mission: NASA's Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects
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Description: Why human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make projects succeed.
The project is the basic unit of work in many industries. Software applications, antiviral vaccines, launch-ready spacecraft: all were produced by a team and managed as a project. Project management emphasizes control, processes, and tools-but, according to The Smart Mission, that is not the right way to run a project. Human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make projects successful. Projects run on knowledge. This paradigm-shifting book-by three project management experts, all of whom have decades of experience at NASA and elsewhere-challenges the conventional wisdom on project management, focusing on the human dimension: learning, collaboration, teaming, communication, and culture. The authors emphasize three themes: projects are fundamentally about how teams work and learn together to get things done; the local level-not an organization's upper levels-is where the action happens; and projects don't operate in a vacuum but exist within organizations that are responsible to stakeholders. Drawing on examples and case studies from NASA and other organizations, the authors identify three project models-micro, macro, and global-and their different knowledge needs. Successful organizations have a knowledge-based culture. Successful project management guides the interplay of knowledge, projects, and people.

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Title: The Smart Mission: NASA's Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects
Author: Edward J. Hoffman, Matthew Kohut, Laurence Prusak
Language: English
Subjects: Project Management, Business & Economics, General, project management; Project Management Institute; knowledge; learning; culture; communication; stories; innovation; NASA; International Space Station; space shuttle; aerospace; collaboration; global collaboration; teams; projects; project planning; project execution; organizational development; learning and development; talent; training., Business Communication, Management
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