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Providing a blueprint for the creation of 'living companies', this book explores the potential of the Strategic Project Office (SPO) to transform an enterprise by making the most of people. This book features a review of various topics such as hiring, retention, measurement, training, and professional development of knowledge workers.

Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office

SECTION I: THE NEW PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The Strategic Project Office: A Catalyst for

Organizational Change

Failure: Wake-Up Call and Teacher

Integrating Strategy and Action: Managing the Project Portfolio

People on Projects: A New Look at Project Roles and

Responsibilities

Why Is This So Important?

The Executive Role

SECTION II: MANAGING PEOPLE AS THOUGH

PROJECTS REALLY MATTER: BEST PRACTICES

FOR CAPITALIZING ON PROJECT PERSONNEL The Right Stuff: Competency-Based Employment

What Is Competence?

Assessing Competence

Developing Competence Why Project Managers Fail ... and How to Help Them

Succeed

Project Manager and Team Member Competencies

What Does a Project Manager Do?

The Emergence of the Project Planner Role

Other Roles and Their Areas of Competence The Turnover Solution

Recruitment and Retention Practices for the Project-Based Company

Recruitment

Retention

Culture

Graceful Exits

The Care and Feeding of Project Management

Personnel

Career Pathing and Professional Development

Professional Development: Training, Coaching, and Mentoring

Performance Management on Projects: More Carrot,

Less Stick

What Is Wrong with Performance Management?

Best-Practice Performance Management

Aligning Individual and Organizational Performance

SECTION III: THE FUTURE - WHAT IS NEXT

FOR PROJECTS AND PEOPLE?

On the Horizon: New Organizational Themes

and Structures

New Themes in Project Management Staffing

Beyond the Team: Community of Practice

Outsourcing: Project Management Expertise as a Commodity

New Opportunities and Visibility for Project Managers SECTION IV: APPENDICES

Sample Role Descriptions for Project Office

Personnel and Other Project-Management-Related Positions Excerpt from Project Management Maturity Model Sample Career Path Sample Questions from Knowledge Assessment Instrument

Sample Questions from Multi-Rater Project Manager

Competency Evaluation Sample Questions from the Caliper Profile

PM Solutions Career Planning and Development

Program Artifacts Value of Project Management Training Research Study Results Project Manager Support Survey Project Management Mentor's Competency Scorecard

PM Coaching Guidelines: Assisting Project Managers

and Their Projects Project Management Performance Appraisal Form Service Level Agreement Tips for Better Outsourcing

Relationships