Interested in project management? Elizabeth Harrin is the author of several top-selling, practical guides to how to manage projects published by PMI, APM, Kogan Page and the British Computer Society.
Drawing from her own experience and plenty of case studies, surveys and research, these books are the ‘mentor on the shelf’ you need to get ahead and learn what really works when it comes to juggling your workload.
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What are the key skills for working on multiple projects simultaneously? What tools do you use to prioritize your work? How do you get through the day when you’re juggling All. The. Things? I posed these questions (and more) to our community and the insights were illuminating. And unfortunately, not in a good way. In…
How do you start to get your work under control when you are juggling several projects at once? That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The starting point is knowing how all the different parts of your workload fit together so you can manage them in an efficient way. And do…
Learn which 12 change management books made my list of the most important reads. Great suggestions for project managers and those working in organizational change.
Whether you are studying for the exam or want to supplement your learning, here are the 7 best PRINCE2 books that I recommend.
You can read books to earn PDUs and I’ve created a list of 15 of my most recommended project management books to help you do so.
Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! To get the benefits of better business resilience, you need to commit at the most senior levels within the…
Why do stakeholders take part in projects? You might think that’s an obvious question. After all, your project sponsor is probably the one who wanted this project to happen in the first place, and he or she has a vested interest in making it a success. But aside from the sponsor, all those other stakeholders…
Instead of taking a wait and see approach, use these 4 methods to proactively manage stakeholders on your projects.
If you are new to project management, new to leading project teams – even if you have a lot of other, related business experience in a different field – then this book will be relevant to you.
Build, Excite, Equip: How to Simplify Change Adoption in Your Projects, by Nicola Graham, is a handbook for business change management aimed at project managers. Given that project teams have to incorporate the business change elements to make sure projects land as expected – but often without the support of a dedicated change manager –…
There are 4 meeting sins that you should definitely avoid. Gerry Lewis’s book Shine discusses what they are and how to avoid them.
I recently sat down with the book Stakeholder-led Project Management by Louise M. Worsley and wanted to share my thoughts and take-aways from her book.