Team-Based Project Management

By William L. Benoit, Kevin A. Stein, Matthew Barton

This text is a team-building guide specifically aimed at project managers, and it aims to give them the skills they need to create high-performing project teams. The skills covered in the book include how to: understand the basics of human behaviour and motivation; turn a group of people into a functioning project team; lead the team effectively and help manage decision making; develop the team's level of sophisitication and abilities; promote innovation and creativity; deal with problem team members; and resolve conflicts. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814403646
• ISBN13: 9780814403648
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

As other James P. Lewis books, very useful.

When I purchased this book, I half expected it to say how a Project Leader has to have personal skills and give some general suggestions about doing it. It surpassed my expectations, by being very practical.I can see many of the suggestions he makes working on the company I work for. At the end of several chapters, Lewis provides some tasks you can get to work on to build your team, and keep it working. Lewis writing style...

Good book

James Lewis presents team based project management in a clear and easy to understand method. The main points out highlighted making it easy to re-review those topics. I recommend this book for all Project Managers.