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Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management View Larger Image | Scott Berkun
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published March 2008, 400 pages, ISBN 0596517718 | List Price: $39.99
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In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft
project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies
and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills
complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the
new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere.
Based on his nine years of experience as a program manager for Internet Explorer,
and lead program manager for Windows and MSN, Berkun explains to technical and
non-technical readers alike what it takes to get through a large software or
web development project. Making Things Happen doesn't cite specific
methods, but focuses on philosophy and strategy. Unlike other project management
books, Berkun offers personal essays in a comfortable style and easy tone that
emulate the relationship of a wise project manager who gives good, entertaining
and passionate advice to those who ask. Topics in this new edition include:
- How to make things happen
- Making good decisions
- Specifications and requirements
- Ideas and what to do with them
- How not to annoy people
- Leadership and trust
- The truth about making dates
- What to do when things go wrong
Complete with a new forward from the author and a discussion guide for forming
reading groups/teams, Making Things Happen offers in-depth exercises
to help you apply lessons from the book to your job. It is inspiring, funny,
honest, and compelling, and definitely the one book that you and your team need
to have within arm's reach throughout the life of your project. Coming from
the rare perspective of someone who fought difficult battles on Microsoft's
biggest projects and taught pro.
About the Author
Scott Berkun worked on the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft from 1994-1999
and left the company in 2003 with the goal of writing enough books to fill a
shelf. The Myths of Innovation is his second book: he wrote the best seller,
The Art of Project Management (O'Reilly 2005). He makes a living writing, teaching
and speaking. He teaches a graduate course in creative thinking at the University
of Washington, runs the sacred places architecture tour at NYC's GEL conference,
and writes about innovation, design and management at www.scottberkun.com.
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