Best Books for Women in Project Management
These are my four favourite books for women in leadership and women in project management positions.
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These are my four favourite books for women in leadership and women in project management positions.
Project managers tend to live or die by their schedules. They shape decisions, priorities and stakeholder engagements. We feel good when the schedules give us confidence. We feel nervous when they change a lot. We feel out of control when the schedule is clearly fictional with no chance of ever being delivered. It’s no surprise…
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…
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…
I’ve been waiting to share this with you… and today’s the day! I wrote a new book! It’s called Managing Multiple Projects: How Project Managers Can Balance Priorities, Manage Expectations and Increase Productivity And it’s not just any book. I wanted to write a book to help busy project managers – like you – juggle…
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In Project Management for Humans, Brett Harned has taken his experience, ideas and good practice and distilled them into a fun, practical book.
Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Primarily more detailed planning in…
I expected a book about leadership theory but what I got was a hugely practical guide to actually doing leadership with plenty of stories, examples and exercises. Read my book review of The Power of Project Leadership by Susanne Madsen to find out more about why leadership is important for project managers and the 7 keys of project leadership.
Learn how you can better work with virtual teams with these tips pulled from the book Virtual Leadership by Penny Pullan. Find out what I thought of the book and how it can help you ditch unproductive conference calls for truly successful virtual work.
This book review of Participative Transformation shows how important it is to engage people when you are trying to ‘do’ organisational change. I’ve pulled out some of the key points from the book to help you start thinking about the impacts your projects are having on your stakeholder communities.
What are the three characteristics required to lead a project successfully? Find out what Colin Ellis says makes up the Conscious Project Leader model in this book review. It’s a great book!