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Are you a project management contractor who left the last job under a cloud? Or a permanent project manager having a rough time of it on your project? Then you should read Comebacks: Powerful Lessons from Leaders Who Endured Setbacks and Recaptured Success on Their Terms, by Andrea Redmond and Patricia Crisafulli. Not because it…
I recently got a copy of the 5th edition of PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide, which is the partner text to the Review Guide and has been fully updated for the 4th edition of the PMBoK. Kim Heldman’s book is a weighty text, coming in at over 600 pages and with another two…
PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide has a practical, descriptive title – and it’s a practical, descriptive book. Kim Heldman and Vanina Mangano have written this book specifically for those project managers aiming to sit their PMP exam. It’s structured logically, taking you through the project lifecycle. The book starts with a review of…
Does your company have a set of policies for working online? For all that I advocate using social media tools at work to improve productivity, you have to do it in a controlled and secure way. The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Internet…
This is a book review of the 2009 edition of the PRINCE2 manual. For more up-to-date content on PRINCE2, check out my guide to PRINCE2 which is fully updated for the 7th edition, 2023 version. The 2009 version of the PRINCE2® manual for project managers feels a lot clearer and structured. Managing Successful Projects with…
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® has a clear structure – and it’s also clear what it does not include. There is nothing in here about the leadership skills required…
Rich Maltzman, PMP, and Dave Shirley, PMP, wrote a very timely book: 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 of greenness and quality. We’ve chosen to…
Taming Change with Portfolio Management: Unify Your Organization, Sharpen Your Strategy and Create Measurable Value is a meaty book. I got the paperback advance reader’s copy. I’ve been lumping it around for a while now. The hardback formal print run is now complete and the book is (just) on the shelves. Pat Durbin and Terry…
Earlier in the month I attended a womenintechnology event about the business value of social media – something I’m particularly interested in, given the topic of my forthcoming book. The evening was held at the Intellect offices on Russell Square, and the room was packed. It was a pretty small room, in comparison to some…
Last time we saw that PRINCE2 doesn’t really have much advice to offer the project manager stuck with delivering to a fixed date. I also gave you some advice from another expert, J LeRoy Ward at ESI. Surely some other project management experts have tackled this problem? I trawled my bookcase for what other people…
Several people have asked me what goes on at the PMI New Media Council meetings. The NMC was launched in 2008 and is a group of bloggers, podcasters and other online folk whom PMI describe as ‘influential voices’. We have come together to act as an advisory and sounding board for PMI. We’re not paid…
10 Easy tips for keeping your workplace tidy and making you more productive. Put these into practice and you’ll soon be saving time each day and feel more positive about your space.