Pt3's review
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
by Scott Berkun
Pt3's review
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun
Pt3's review
rating:
recommended for: developers, software teams, project managers
Great, Quick Read. A lot of useful information here. I've read many books on managing software projects, and they often tend to tell you what goes wrong or can go wrong, which I know already, as I've lived it. This book actually provides many helpful solutions. The book makes an effort to recognize that processes should support the workers, not the other way around, so the topics are not obsessed with schedules and charts and the rigidity you find in most pm books. The author takes into the human and organizational aspects of the project and intertwines these with the goals to present ways to organize yourself for success and stay there. I don't think you need to be leading a project to get something out of this book. I think the content is great for everyone from the manager(s) to individual contributors. Its a solution kit for succeeding at software projects and I plan to keep it by my side as a reference and re-read in the future. If you're doing any agile or feature driven...more
