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All Change: Project Manager's Secret Handbook
Helps you diagnose your project and identify the types of issues you are facing. It provides you with the methods, tools and framework you need to get your projects implemented. Written from your point of view, it accepts that your life is already busy and pulls out the core which yields big results.
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352 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1996
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April 21, 2011
An unusual and thought provoking book. You can read the story by starting from the front or you can turn it over and read the recipes, or you can flip between the two.
Eddie Obeng tells a humorous and engaging story of being on holiday, and coming across things that remind him of his work as a project manager. It helps him see things in a different light.
But then, when you turn the book over, there's a great library of useful tools you can use on any project. Try it. You'll enjoy it and find the tools useful too.
Eddie Obeng tells a humorous and engaging story of being on holiday, and coming across things that remind him of his work as a project manager. It helps him see things in a different light.
But then, when you turn the book over, there's a great library of useful tools you can use on any project. Try it. You'll enjoy it and find the tools useful too.
June 20, 2015
There is a lot written about project management.
Most of it is along the lines of the Project Management Institute's PM Book of Knowledge. This stuff is, in my opinion, worse than wrong. It is positively dangerous.
Then there's stuff like Steve McConnell's Rapid Development. It contains lots of really good, well thought through advice on managing projects. Just about every project manager would benefit from reading it. However, it doesn't really cover the stakeholder management, people side of things which you quickly learning is what 50% of project management is about.
Eddie Obeng's book focuses on this aspect and, at first reading, seems to provide sound, informative advice and thinking tools to help you learn to do this black art better.
Could it have been better. Certainly for me it could have been. The book is split into two. A classic how to guide, which I found useful. And a narrative in a similar fashion to Goldratt's Theory of Constraints books. The narrative added nothing for me. It just filled 100+ pages which could have been better used to expand on the real meat of the book - the how to guide.
Do I know of anything better? No, I don't know of anything that even comes close.
Most of it is along the lines of the Project Management Institute's PM Book of Knowledge. This stuff is, in my opinion, worse than wrong. It is positively dangerous.
Then there's stuff like Steve McConnell's Rapid Development. It contains lots of really good, well thought through advice on managing projects. Just about every project manager would benefit from reading it. However, it doesn't really cover the stakeholder management, people side of things which you quickly learning is what 50% of project management is about.
Eddie Obeng's book focuses on this aspect and, at first reading, seems to provide sound, informative advice and thinking tools to help you learn to do this black art better.
Could it have been better. Certainly for me it could have been. The book is split into two. A classic how to guide, which I found useful. And a narrative in a similar fashion to Goldratt's Theory of Constraints books. The narrative added nothing for me. It just filled 100+ pages which could have been better used to expand on the real meat of the book - the how to guide.
Do I know of anything better? No, I don't know of anything that even comes close.
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