Project Teaming Principles
Project Teaming Principles
Nine powerful principles to 10X your team
About the Book
In "Project Teaming Principles," Adam Russell delivers an uplifting guide for creating high-performance project teams. Drawing on decades of experience in project management and team dynamics, Adam distills the essence of team success into nine actionable principles. This book is not just another manual on teamwork; it's a comprehensive blueprint for fostering self-organising, resilient, and mutually supportive teams. From the foundational "There’s No 'I' in Team" to the innovative "Practice Awesomisation," each principle is presented with practical insights and real-world examples illuminating the path to team excellence. Russell's engaging style and deep expertise make complex concepts accessible and actionable, providing valuable tools for novice and seasoned project managers. Whether struggling with underperforming teams or looking to elevate your team's performance to new heights, "Project Teaming Principles" offers the guidance you need. Embrace these principles and discover how to unlock your team's full potential, drive fast and furious value delivery, and create a collaborative dream team environment.
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About the Author
Table of Contents
- Getting Engaged with this Book and its Author
- Introduction
- Project Teams—Why Are They Important?
- Teams Are Fundamental
- The Good Team Experience
- How Do We Avoid or Fix Bad or Underperforming Teams?
- Principle-Based Team-Building
- Principle-Based Foundation
- Principles to Building a High-performance Project Team
- The Principles in Summary
- Principle #1: There’s No “I” in team
- Principle #2: Deliver Value: Fast and Furious
- Principle #3: Share the Dream
- Principle #4: Do Your Job, But Don’t Get in the Way
- Principle #5: Demand Accountability
- Principle #6: Leave Footprints
- Principle #7: Disrupt Respectfully
- Principle #8: Undermine Bureaucracy
- Principle #9: Practice Awesomisation
- Principles Unlock Subconscious Behavior.
- The Principles in Summary
- Principle #1—There’s No “I” in Team
- Introduction
- Individual Responsibilities That Interfere with Team-Building
- How to Get People to Start Committing to the Team
- Principle #2—Deliver Value: Fast and Furious
- Introduction
- Value, Speed, and Passion
- Value
- Speed
- Passion
- Identifying the Barriers to Value, Speed, and Passion
- Value
- Speed and Passion
- Generating Speed, Value, and Passion
- Principle #3—Share the Dream
- Introduction
- Principle #4—Do Your Job, But Don’t Get in the Way
- Introduction
- Three Common but Dysfunctional Perspectives
- Departmental Representative Perspective
- Deliverable Perspective
- Process Representative Perspective
- The Team Perspective
- Principle #5—Demand Accountability
- Introduction
- Accountability Phobia
- Accountability Failures
- Fostering a Cult of Accountability
- Principle #6—Leave Footprints
- Introduction
- The Sins of Documentation
- Need Is Evident
- The Agile Experience
- The Waterfall Experience
- Documentation Is Good and Necessary
- Principle #7—Disrupt Respectfully
- Introduction
- Create Harmony by Airing Out Dissonance
- Stop Being So Sensitive
- Problems Don’t Get Better with Age
- Principle #8—Undermine Bureaucracy
- Introduction
- What Is Bureaucracy?
- Problems with Bureaucracy
- Undermining Bureaucracy
- Undermine Bureaucracy by Pruning It
- Undermine Bureaucracy by Faking It
- Undermine Bureaucracy by Challenging or Ignoring It
- Undermine Bureaucracy by Embracing It
- Principle #9—Practice Awesomisation
- Introduction
- Team Incentives
- It’s All Really So Easy
- Celebrating Awesomeness
- The Jar of Awesome
- Caution
- Where to from Here?
- More from Adam Russell
- About the Author
- Life Summary
- Career Summary
- Copyright
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