Team Learning in Projects Theory and Practice

by Savelsbergh, BSc, MSc, C.Eng, Chantal; Storm, PhD, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781935589501
• ISBN10: 1935589504
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-01
• Publisher: Project Management Institute

Summary

How can today¿s project be done well? How can tomorrow¿s project be done even better? These two classic questions are the foundation for Team Learning in Projects: Theory and Practice, a report of research conducted by Chantal Savelsbergh and Peter Storm. This research follows a previous effort that revealed a strong and positive relationship between team performance and team learning. In this report the researchers drop the second shoe by exploring how to increase team learning behaviors. Their investigation is based on the underlying principle that projects have two goals: to perform and to learn. Learning supports performance of current and future projects; performance stimulates the desire to improve and drives learning. Team Learning in Projects answers two more-focused, research questions: Is it possible to increase the level of team learning within and among project teams with the aid of time-limited interventions? How do different conditions influence the effectiveness of these interventions? The answers are often not-so-surprising, but always informative for both improved understanding and guidance on a new path forward.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary	p. 1
Why Investigate Team Learning?	p. 1
Summary of Our First Research Phase on Team Learning, Role Stress, and Performance	p. 2
What Did We Investigate in the Second Research Phase?	p. 2
How Did We Execute the Research?	p. 3
What Are the Results?	p. 3
How Can Project Teams and Their Team Leaders Apply These Results?	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
Outcomes and Questions Resulting from the Previous Research Project (Phase I)	p. 7
Aims of the Present Research Project (Phase II)	p. 9
Structure of This Report	p. 10
Team Learning Behaviors, Intervention Strategies, and Influencing Conditions	p. 13
Intervention Strategies Promoting Team Learning Behaviors	p. 15
Conditions That Obstruct or Stimulate Team Learning Behaviors	p. 18
Research Method	p. 29
Case Descriptions and Findings	p. 33
Case IT	p. 35
Case Infra	p. 53
Conclusions and Discussion	p. 73
Conclusions	p. 73
Limitations of Our Study and Suggestions for Future Research	p. 77
Implications for Practice	p. 84
Author Contact Details	p. 86
References	p. 87
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