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Summer of books

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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

Getting some answers: an interview with Jeff Furman

August 10, 2011

The Summer of Books 2011 series continues with this interview with author Jeff Furman. 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. [...]

Penny Pullan talks about writing A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management

August 5, 2011

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. Elizabeth: Well, I’m here today with Penny Pullan who is the co-author of the new book [...]

Welcome to the Summer of Books 2011!

August 1, 2011

Last year, the papers were full of staycations. This year, from the amount of Heathrow advertising on the tube, it sounds as if more people are travelling for their summer holidays. I know it’s a holiday, but you can still slip a project management book into your suitcase to read on the beach. This year’s [...]

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