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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 [...]

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 [...]

Giveaway: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management

August 8, 2011

If you enjoyed my interview with Penny Pullan, co-author of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management, on Friday, you’ll want to enter this giveaway. I have a copy of the book, which Penny wrote with Ruth Murray-Webster, to give away. There are two ways to enter: Leave a comment below. Remember to complete your [...]

Book Review: Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More

August 3, 2011

“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 [...]

Book Review: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management

July 11, 2011

Risk meetings don’t have to be boring, although in my experience they often are. A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management is out this month, and it specifically addresses how to get the best out of your risk management meetings. This book, by Ruth Murray-Webster and Penny Pullan, provides practical guidance on facilitating risk workshops, [...]

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