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Lessons Learned in Project Management: 140 Tips in 140 Words or Less is a compilation of tips from project managers around the world, plus a healthy dose of advice from the book’s compiler, John A. Estrella. The preface explains how he was struck by the idea of gathering Twitter-style words of wisdom and making a…
“It’s misleading to define project success in static terms, focusing only on the final delivery,” writes Thomas Juli in his book, Leadership Principles for Project Success. In this book, he sets out a broader definition of success, although you have to wait until page 84 to get to it. Project leadership is a hot topic…
By the time I was half way through the introduction I liked Todd Williams. I liked his way of thinking, his faith in project management and in people, and his ability to tell stories. I was sold on the idea of a book telling me how to rescue a problem project, even though I wasn’t…
“You can solve most of your time-related problems – not enough time, to much to do, deadlines too short, bosses too demanding, not getting to your own priorities – simply by increasing the one resource you can control: you,” says Robert R. Bly. His book, Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for…
This new book is part of the stable of Best Management Practices guides from the OGC. Sitting alongside PRINCE2® and MSP®, Management of Portfolios (MoP®) looks at—unsurprisingly—managing portfolios of projects and balancing organisational change. So, what are portfolios and portfolio management? The book explains like this: Portfolios represent the totality of an organisation’s investment (or…
Jeff Furman is the author of The Project Management Answer Book. I asked him why he wrote it and what it was like putting the book together. Hello, Jeff. Tell me why you wrote The Project Management Answer Book? Hi, Elizabeth. When I approached the milestone of my 500th PM trained, I felt I had…
In this video I talk to Penny Pullan, co-author of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management. If you prefer to read a transcript, that follows below. This was filmed on location at the PMI EMEA Congress in Dublin in 2011. Elizabeth: Well, I’m here today with Penny Pullan who is the co-author of the…
“When you’re in content focus, you load a project into your brain and do everything related to that project,” says Stever Robbins, in his book Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More. “If you’re writing a report in content focus mode, you might spend the day writing, researching, calling people strictly about…
There’s a whole industry around certification training for project managers. Job adverts declare that you have to be PMP® certified or a PRINCE2® Practitioner. But does training actually make a difference to how you do your job? Training can make you about 26% more effective, according to research by PM Solutions (link broken as at…
Imagine working in a company with 10,000 people. You’re working on a secret project. You don’t know your colleagues from the next room. You don’t know what the overall project objectives are. You don’t know who else is on the project team and you can’t tell anyone what you’re working on. All you know is…
AMACOM does do good books, and 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges by Tom Kendrick, is no exception. It’s similar in concept to my own book, Project Management in the Real World, in that it provides practical advice for handling real-world project challenges. With that…
Over 75% of you feel that social media tools provide the opportunity to improve the way you manage projects, according to this year’s Social Media in a Project Environment survey. The 2011 results show how project managers around the world are using Collaboration Tools to manage projects and lead teams. There was lots of interest…