Mastering Project Leadership

Pedro M. Serrador, MBA, PhD, P.Eng., PMP, ITIL, PMI-ACP is a writer and researcher on Agile, AI and management topics. He is an adjunct professor at the Northeastern University, Boston and University of Toronto, Canada. He is also the owner of Serrador Project Management, a consultancy in Toronto, Canada. He specializes in technically complex and high risk programs and projects, vendor management engagements, and tailoring and implementing project management methodologies; he has worked on projects in the financial, telecommunications, utility, medical imaging, and simulations sectors for some of the world’s largest companies. He is an author of books and articles on project management and is also a regular speaker at conferences. He was the recipient of the PMI 2012 James R. Snyder International Student Paper of the Year Award, the Major de Promotion Award for best PhD Thesis 2012-2013 from SKEMA business school and the 2022 Most cited paper of the year award from Project Management Journal. He holds a Hons. BSc in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada; an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland; and a PhD in Strategy, Programme & Project Management from SKEMA Business School (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lille, France).

1. When Our Project Culture Fails Us: The Normalization of Deviance Trap 2. Balanced Leadership: Making Use of All Leadership Skills in the Project Team 3. Three Themes of Project Management 4. Before You Start Managing That Major Project, What You Should Know about Cost Overruns and Benefit Shortfalls 5. Why “Well-Padded” Projects Continue to Be Late 6. Are Agile Projects More Successful? 7. Managing Complex Projects 8. Managing the Benefits of Collaborative Projects 9. Agile, Traditional, and Hybrid Approaches to Project Success: Is Hybrid a Poor Second Choice? 10. Deadline.Dead-Line. Breathing Life into Projects 11. Our Love Affair with Project Slack (and Why It Ruins Our Schedule Accuracy) 12. How Principles Can Make Agile Benefits Realisation Successful 13. The Relationship Between Project Success and Project Efficiency 14. You’ve Just Inherited Someone Else’s Project: Now What? 15. Local Communities Stakeholder Defined. Identification and Categorization in Major Infrastructure Projects 16. What Planning Effort Optimizes Project Success? 17. Increasing Odds in Uncertain Times: Creating Value through Collaborative Learning