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Focus on Coaching: The Project Management Coaching Workbook

January 18, 2012

This short series is looking at coaching in a project management environment. Today, I’m reviewing The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen (Management Concepts, 2011). “It is not your ability to manage tasks and resources that will set you apart,” writes Susanne Madsen in her new book, The Project Management Coaching Workbook. “It is [...]

Focus on Coaching: Book review of Leading and Coaching Teams to Success

January 11, 2012

I particularly liked the sub-title of this book: The Secret Life of Teams. Leading and Coaching Teams to Success by Phil Hayes is about what happens to teams behind closed doors. It talks about how teams gossip, go off the rails and implode. There’s something cathartic about reading about teams in a worse state than [...]

How to be a PMO Leader: Book Review of Leading Successful PMOs

December 14, 2011

Project managers have to be project leaders as well, at least some of the time. But what happens when you want to take the next step and lead a PMO? Peter Taylor’s new book, Leading Successful PMOs, explains. He discusses the PMO that he led at Siemens. It was a three year journey. They began [...]

Book review: Managing Business Transformation

November 14, 2011

Projects change things. Some projects change a lot of things, and business transformation is a big, scary subject. How do you get from here to your vision of the future without it just being all about tasks and deliverables? How do you win people over to the new way of working? Melanie Franklin‘s new book, [...]

Female breadwinners: an interview with Suzanne Doyle-Morris

November 9, 2011

In 2009, the book that affected me most was Beyond The Boy’s Club, a book about career strategies for women in male dominated fields. I don’t work in a male dominated field, but I thought it was full of advice I put into play (and I’ve been promoted in the intervening years, so it worked). [...]

Giveaway winners and review: Employees First, Customers Second

October 31, 2011

And the winners are… Lee Choon-Heng from Malaysia and Kevin McDaniel from Kansas, United States. Congratulations, your copies of Employees First, Customers Second by Vineet Nayar are in the post. This is what they won: Employees First, Customers Second is an easy-to-read story of how Vineet Nayar turned around the fortunes of IT services firm [...]

Introducing…the Cleland PM Literature Award winners

October 28, 2011

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management celebrates project management literature and writing in all forms. You’ll find project management book reviews, interviews with authors (like this one, and this one) and project management writing is what my company does. So it was a great honour to be invited to join the winners of the PMI [...]

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 [...]

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