From the monthly archives:

August 2011

Book review: Project Success: Critical Factors and Behaviours

August 31, 2011

What makes a project successful? Emanuel Camilleri in the book Project Success: Critical Factors and Behaviours has tried to answer that question. This book from Gower is the bible on getting it right, covering everything from the history of project management to managing information flow and organisational diagnostics. The problem with a book on project [...]

Book review: Managing Projects: A team-based approach

August 29, 2011

I have read a lot of project management books over the last 5 years, and I’m pleased to say that this is my 65th book review. Read all the project management book reviews here. Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach is a text book by Karen B. Brown and Nancy Lea Hyer. I can’t think of [...]

Checking for success: an interview with Joanne Flinn

August 26, 2011

Summer of Books 2011 continues with an interview with author Joanne Flinn. Joanne Flinn is the author of The Success Healthcheck for IT Projects: An Insider’s Guide to Managing IT investment and Business Change, which I reviewed in February. I had the pleasure of meeting Joanne for coffee earlier this year when she stopped over [...]

Book review: Projectegrity: Using Integrity to Make Your Project Great

August 24, 2011

Rick Valerga’s new book, Projectegrity: Using Integrity to Make Your Project Great, continues the concepts he dealt with in The Cure For The Common Project. Projectegrity is integrity in a project environment—what it means, how you get it and what to do with it. It’s not that easy to say, but it’s an easy concept [...]

Book Review: Lessons Learned in Project Management

August 22, 2011

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 [...]

Book review: Leadership Principles for Project Success

August 19, 2011

“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 [...]

Book review: Rescue the Problem Project

August 17, 2011

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 [...]

London riots: one week on

August 15, 2011

I was due to bring you a book review of On Top of Everything today. Instead, I wanted to interrupt the Summer of Books schedule to say thank you to everyone who has sent their thoughts and good wishes to us in London after the riots last week. The book review will now appear on [...]

Book review: Make Every Second Count

August 12, 2011

“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 [...]

Book review: Management of Portfolios

August 11, 2011

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 [...]

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