The Smart Mission, NASA’s Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects
- Authors
- Edward J. Hoffman
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Tags
- 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.
- Size
- 0.54 MB
- Lang
- en
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 toolsbut, 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 bookby three project management experts, all of whom have decades of experience at NASA and elsewherechallenges 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 levelnot an...