The Project Leadership Diamond®


The Project Leadership Diamond® was developed to provide a tangible guide that enables the day to day demonstration of Leadership behaviors and actions within a Project Enviroment. The ability to successfully practice leadership skills is significantly more critical to the success of Agile Project Management.

The movement from Project Management to Project Leadership requires clear understanding and exhibiting of Leadership Skills and Process Skills. The Project Leadership Diamond®, a revolutionary model describing the journey to Project Excellence, is the result of collaboration between Industry Leaders.

These components necessary to begin the journey to Greatness in the execution of Projects and Programs:

  • Agile Project Management Processes
  • The application of Best Practices to Agile PM, Waterfall PM, or a hybrid
  • Demonstration of effective Project / Program Leadership Behaviors
  • Senior Leadership support to create an environment conducive to Excellence
The existence of the above is the price of admission to begin the journey. Drive for Project Excellence also describes the integration of these components, which is critical to the success of the journey. This includes:
  • the Integration of the Project Management Process with Project Management Best Practices; this integration provides for a Robust Project Management process, one flexible enough to address simple Projects as well as complex, high-risk Projects and Programs
  • Understanding of the Project Management Best Practices and the appropriate application of those Best Practices
  • Appropriate and effective Leadership behaviors
  • A model to provide guidance to the Project Leader, Project Team, Individual Performers and Senior Leadership on demonstrating appropriate Leadership decisions and behaviors: The Project Leadership Diamond®, applying Dr. Peter Koestenbaum’s proven Leadership Diamond® to the Project Management environment
The Project Leader, Project Team, Individual Performers must demonstrate Leadership decisions and behaviors to reach Greatness. Dr. Peter Koestenbaum’s proven Leadership Diamond® model, and the associated Project Leadership Diamond® model, provides guidance enabling effective Leadership behaviors and decisions in an environment fraught with ambiguity.

The Leadership Diamond®: Copyright © 2008 by Peter Koestenbaum. All rights reserved. Strictly proprietary. For use only under license.