This book is a reality-based guide for modern projects. You'll learn how to recognize your project's potholes and ruts, and determine the best way ...
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Jun 13, 2008
Taylor
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This is fantastic book! If you manage technical projects, you really should read this. It's full of great advice and great practices. I've directly applied many of the ideas to the projects that I am responsible for and they have really made a difference. As an example, scheduling has always been an issue at the company for which I work due to the need for a lot of developer time spent doing support tasks. Also, the previous project manager was really in love with MS Project and huge long Gantt
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Feb 04, 2009
Robert
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Very good book on the pitfalls and difficulties of modern project management (mostly from an Agile perspective).
Johanna has a lot of good insight and perspective that comes from her vast experience. Some things she just glosses over but overall this book gave me a number of very good things to put into practice.
Very good book.
Johanna has a lot of good insight and perspective that comes from her vast experience. Some things she just glosses over but overall this book gave me a number of very good things to put into practice.
Very good book.
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Sep 22, 2011
Joao
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One of the best book I had ever read about Project Management not related to any discipline in particular.
Very pragmatic approach to PM activities.
Very pragmatic approach to PM activities.
Sep 24, 2011
David
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This is an okayish book on project management but probably not the best one I've read. For one, the style of this book makes it more suitable for project managers with some prior management experience. Terms are used without being really defined (unless I missed them), and you clearly get the feeling that the author assumes you know already about different styles of software project management.
By all means read this book but only after you've had the chance to manage a couple of prior More...
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Nov 10, 2011
Donna
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Reading for book, wouldn't recommend it unless you want to be a strong PM like me :) lol
May 05, 2009
Carl Christian
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This book can be summarized with these words "small iteration", and being a programmer I tend to agree. Also I found that the "reciepies" found in this book could be helpful when starting, during, and ending a project.
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Sep 11, 2011
Larry
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Great book for beginning or experienced project managers. It's not a PMP type of book, the emphasis here is on agile project management methodologies though there is some discussion of waterfall and others. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone doing project management, especially of software projects.
Nov 19, 2011
Dan
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Really useful and informative. Devastating analysis of serial status reporting meetings, and compelling arguments throughout. Not exactly a page-turner perhaps, but well worth the effort and highly recommended.
Jun 05, 2011
Lachlan
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Quite a handy book. There are some sections that I would have loved to had more detail - such as program management. Still, it's a good read.
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