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I’ve reviewed a lot of books this summer. Have I become better connected to my scattered team? Hardly. Have I become more lazy as a project manager. No (but I’m trying). Have I rethought my entire approach to work? Yes. Step forward Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris. Beyond the Boys Club presents career strategies for women working…
Pull up a comfy chair, pour yourself a drink and wait for the project team to come to you. Welcome to the world of productive project management laziness, and Peter Taylor is the laziest of all. In a good way. Peter’s book, The lazy project manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave…
Recently I reviewed How to Manage in a Flat World: 10 Strategies to get connected to your team wherever they are by Susan Bloch and Philip Whiteley. I was really interested in the shift towards flat structure management and a more coherent approach to managing dispersed teams, so I spoke to the authors to find…
It’s an odd experience, reading a book about project management that uses none of the language of project management or business analysis. Phil Simon’s book, Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide, is a study of IT project failure from a consultant’s perspective. Simon has plenty of experience of implementing large scale systems, and…
This article first appeared in 2009 – SharePoint has moved on a bit since this book was released! The book has been updated to the latest edition of SharePoint. You can’t run a project without a plan, and you can’t plan in SharePoint. That’s the major failing of this book. Microsoft SharePoint doesn’t integrate with Microsoft…
“Delivering value is the only real reason to undertake a project.” ‘The Principles of Project Management is part of the Sitepoint stable so, as you would expect, web projects feature heavily. However, it’s not about a web project management. I read it on a slow train to the Kent countryside (and back) and Meri Williams…
The strapline on the back of this book is ‘becoming a systems thinker’. The authors have taken a practical approach to systems analysis describing the fundamentals of systemic thinking including problem definition and problem solving. How to do Systems Analysis covers the six main phases of systems analysis: determining system goals, establishing a process and…
Women play an active role today in most occupations, but it hasn’t always been easy, especially in technical fields. Women in Science, Engineering and Technology is an overview of the UK initiatives since the 1970’s designed to encourage girls and women into non-traditional jobs. The book begins by describing the changing socio-political and economic climate…
A book review of Franklin and Tuttle’s book, Communication Skills for Project and Programme Managers. Find out what I thought of it, and how it could help you manage your project communications more effectively.
Leadership Skills for Project and Programme Managers is the second in the Focus on Skills series from TSO. Actually, I don’t know which number in the series it is, as the three books were all launched at the same time. It’s the second one I read, so it’s the second review to appear here. I…
This book review of Team Management Skills for Project and Programme Managers points out how to manage team building over the life of a project and shares tips from this book by Franklin and Tuttle.
Enjoyed the series on managing international projects? Here is some further reading that you might like: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers, Anthony Mersino (Amacom, 2007) Polyglot Dictionary of Project Management Terms, John Bartlett (PMToday.co.uk) Managing Without Walls: Maximize Success with Virtual, Global, and Cross-cultural Teams, Colleen Garton and Kevin Wegryn (MC Press, 2006) And of…