Project Management for You [Book Review]
I review Cesar Abeid’s book, Project Management for You, a guide for new project managers that explains how to turn ideas into reality using project management principles.
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Interested in project management? Elizabeth Harrin is the author of several top-selling, practical guides to how to manage projects published by PMI, APM, Kogan Page and the British Computer Society.
Drawing from her own experience and plenty of case studies, surveys and research, these books are the ‘mentor on the shelf’ you need to get ahead and learn what really works when it comes to juggling your workload.
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Project management books reviewed and the top takeaways shared for you! Learn about the new trends in project management from the best authors.
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Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers [Book Review]
Leadership is so important for project managers. Arm yourself with a toolbox of tricks from the book Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers by Michel Dion.
Book review: Growing Software
Read my book review of Growing Software, a great project management book aimed at IT teams and the software engineers who lead them. Good tips for people who have recently been promoted from a technical role into a project management role.
Advances in Project Management [Book Review]
What will the future of project management bring? I review Advances in Project Management, a book edited by renowned academic Darren Dalcher. Let’s look at what we can expect in the future and some of the project management trends we are seeing today.
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Managing Stakeholders as Clients [Book Review]
Have you thought about managing project stakeholders as if they were customers of a complex sale? Mario Henrique Trentim has. He explains how you can ‘do’ stakeholder engagement in his book in order to get a more successful project outcome.
Managing the Urgent and Unexpected [Book Review]
Find out what PMO leaders and senior managers can learn from urgent and unexpected projects, and what lessons you can apply to your project management today to prepare for future crises.
Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel [Book Review]
Projects are not very good at integrating long term strategy because they are short term endeavours. This is the trouble with many disconnects between the strategists and the people who actually approve the work against this year’s targets, and it’s especially true of sustainability which is a long term thing. Learn more about sustainability and how you can incorporate it in your projects.
The Feedback Imperative [Book review]
Learn why managers don’t give feedback and what you should be doing to improve your team’s performance. This book review of The Feedback Imperative will help you improve how you talk to your teams.
Successful Project Governance: The Richard Heaslip interview
Author Richard Heaslip shares his expert views on how project governance leads to successful projects. Find out what’s next for the future of project governance and how your role as a project leader can influence your projects.
The Resilience Breakthrough [Book review]
This book nearly had me in tears on the train! Find out how to become more resilient and where resilience comes from in this review of The Resilience Breakthrough by Christian Moore.
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Reinventing Communication [Book review]
“If we spend 90 percent of our time on communication, it makes sense to have a method to figure out if we are spending out time wisely and, if we are not, what we can do to improve communication,” writes Mark Phillips in his book, Reinventing Communication. That sounds sensible, so I was keen to…
Project Management Answers: Interview with author Jeff Furman
The PMBOK® Guide v5 refresh introduced new topics for students taking the PMP exam. Jeff Furman, author of The Project Management Answer Book, has just released a second edition of his book, covering all that and more. It’s a weighty book to support students preparing for the PMP exam and also more generally in their…