Communicating project management : a participatory rhetoric for development teams / Benjamin Lauren.

Decentralization and project management -- Rethinking the paradigm of project management : from efficiency to participative -- Communicating to make space for participation : locating agency in project communication -- On site with the gardener and the chef : project leadership and communication -- Managing a reorganization project at DTI : participation and making space for communicating change -- Conclusion: A participatory rhetoric for development teams.

"Communicating Project Management argues that the communication practices of project managers have necessarily become participatory, made up of complex strategies and processes solidly grounded in rhetorical concepts. The book draws on case studies across organizational contexts and combines individual experiences to investigate how project management relies on communication as teams develop products, services, and internal processes. The case studies also provide examples of how project managers can be understood and studied as writers, further arguing project managers must approach communication as designed experience that must be intentionally inclusive. Author Benjamin Lauren illustrates to readers how teams work together to manage projects through complex coordinative communication practices, and highlights how project managers are constantly learning and evolving by analyzing where they succeed and fail. He concludes that technical and professional communicators have a pivotal role in supporting and facilitating participative approaches to communicating project management."--Provided by publisher.