Big Teams: The Key Ingredients for Successfully Delivering Large Projects - Paperback

by Tony Llewellyn (Author)

This is a book about working with large teams of people. Whether your team involves 30 people or 3,000, the organizational dynamics are significantly different for a project manager used to dealing with smaller teams. As the project scales up in size and complexity, the processes and skills required change. As project leader, your focus moves from the technical aspects of project delivery to enabling, facilitating and integrating the different sub teams into a cohesive whole.
Big Teams examines the research on team dynamics and the latest thinking on leadership in a project or program environment. It features stories and case studies based on interviews with project leaders from a range of major projects and programs.

Structured around three core themes - Alignment, Engagement, and Resilience - it gives you invaluable, practical guidance on setting up and running an effective team of teams.

As with all Tony Llewellyn's books, Big Teams is written in an accessible style with the focus on real-world application, but the academic underpinning is rigorous and will be a useful reference for any student studying project leadership.

Front Jacket

How do you manage a project or program which requires 30, or 300 or even 3000 people to work together? As size and complexity increase, how do you keep the multiple teams involved collaborating and communicating? This book explores the common challenges that arise when you have to scale up and shows you how to overcome them with a three-part strategy: align the teams, keep them engaged, and build the resilience so they become an effective 'team of teams'. It sets out the particular skills needed to lead large teams, and provides of practical processes, tools and techniques that will enable you to shape and influence the team's behaviours.

Author Biography

Tony Llewellyn is a specialist in the behavioural forces that can be used to build amazing teams. He is a qualified chartered surveyor, and also has a Masters degree in Coaching and Behavioural Change. Tony primarily works as an advisor to teams working on major projects where collaboration is recognised as being critical to success. Prior to starting out as a team specialist, Tony worked on both the client and the consultancy side of many major projects, including a senior management role in a substantial UK construction consultancy, and also as a director of a global engineering business.