Books

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Book review: Management of Portfolios

Book review: Management of Portfolios

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…

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

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 in 2011. Elizabeth: Well, I’m here today with Penny Pullan who is the co-author of the…

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

“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: 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them

Book review: 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them

AMACOM does do good books, and 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges by Tom Kendrick, is no exception. It’s similar in concept to my own book, Project Management in the Real World, in that it provides practical advice for handling real-world project challenges. With that…

Book Review: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

Book Review: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

“Make your boss look good,” writes Guy Kawasaki, in his new book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions. “Sure, changing the world, delighting customers, and increasing shareholder value are all part of the big picture, but making your boss look good is your day-to-day job. You should do this within the boundaries…

Book review:  Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office

Book review: Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office

I wish I hadn’t given this book away. It’s a desk reference for the kind of job I do now – managing project managers – and it’s very, very useful. Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office:  Select, Train, Measure, and Reward People for Organization Success by J. Kent Crawford and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin has…

Book review: Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century
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Book review: Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century

“[T]he time has come when we need to admit we (the program/project manager, business customer, product architect/designer, other stakeholders) do not know the solutions to the problems… and indeed, that “we” – our methods, our habits, our leadership styles, our assumptions – are part of the problem,” writes Karen R. J. White in her book,…