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Summer of books

Book review: Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2

August 9, 2010
Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2
This entry is part 7 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

This book is long overdue: it’s a great idea to have a separate manual for those responsible for directing projects and sitting on the Project Board.  Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 2009 has a clear structure – and it’s also clear what it does not include.  There is nothing in here about the leadership skills [...]

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Book review: Green Project Management

August 6, 2010
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Rich Maltzman, PMP, and Dave Shirley, PMP, from EarthPM have a new book due out next month.  Called Green Project Management: Planet, Projects, Profits, and People, it’s tapping into the trend for greening projects. In fact, Maltzman and Shirley coin a term to define how green a project is:  they call it ‘greenality’, a mix [...]

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Book review: Growing Software

August 4, 2010
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It is not uncommon for software engineers to suddenly find themselves in a role where they are responsible for a team and managing a software project to completion. The skills required for managing developers and successfully delivering a project are not the same as the programming and development skills required to produce good components and [...]

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Welcome to the Summer of Books 2010!

August 2, 2010

It’s August, which means we should be packing for holidays.  Even if you are having a staycation this year, you can still slip a business book into your bag.  Today kicks off a month of book reviews of some of the hottest project and general management books around this summer. Coming up: Best general book [...]

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Winner! Etiquette book

June 4, 2010

Congratulations to Sue from Ontario, Canada, who is the winner of a copy of Ann Marie Sabath’s Business Etiquette: 101 Ways to Conduct Business With Charm & Savvy. If you’d like to find out more about how to do business without offending anyone, there will be a book review of Business Etiquette here in August, [...]

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Giveaway reminder: PM Crash Course

September 22, 2009

It’s not too late to be in with a chance of winning PM Crash Course: Premier Edition by Rita Mulchay. If you would like to be in with a chance of winning it (and loads of you already have, this is my most popular giveaway yet), please send me a message with the content “I [...]

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Book season is over!

August 31, 2009

This year’s Summer of Books event has come to an end.  If you missed any of the reviews, I’ve put them all on an index page which you can see here, or click ‘Reviews’ from the top menu bar. I did say I would review Growing Software, but that’s queued up for an issue of [...]

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Book review: From Lemons to Lemonade

August 26, 2009

Dean A Shepherd’s new book From Lemons to Lemonadefrom Wharton School Publishing is about making the most of your mistakes.  It discusses how to best learn from failure in the fastest possible way, so you can use those lessons for your next corporate (or personal) challenge. Projects (and project managers) fail all the time.  In [...]

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Giveaway: PM Crash Course

August 24, 2009

If you missed out on the giveaways of Why New Systems Fail and Thank God It’s Monday! don’t worry – I have another book to giveaway and this one comes with a fab CD. Rita Mulchay is a renowned author and speaker and this is one of her top books. I need to apologise to [...]

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Book review: PM Crash Course

August 20, 2009

“Do not waste your time with this book unless you are ready to implement what it contains!” warns Rita Mulchay in chapter one of PM Crash Course: Premier Edition.  “Make your decision now!  Do you have the guts to be a better project manager?” This book is one long high five.  You can imagine Mulcahy [...]

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