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Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management View Larger Image | Johanna Rothman
Pragmatic Bookshelf, Paperback, Published June 2007, 200 pages, ISBN 0978739248 | List Price: $34.95
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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 to fix
problems - without causing more problems.
Your project can't fail. That's a lot of pressure on you, and yet you don't
want to buy into any one specific process, methodology, or lifecycle.
Your project is different. It doesn't fit into those neat descriptions.
Successful Project Management will show you how to beg, borrow, and
steal from the best methodologies to fit your particular project. It will help
you find what works best for you and not for some mythological project
that doesn't even exist.
Before you know it, your project will be on track and headed to a successful
conclusion.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Oct 25, 2007 Elad Razy from Israel
Mandatory for Project Managers
Manage IT!
Johanna Rothman does a great job in this book of providing well-organized, practically useful guidance on how to work on and run a project. Even if you're not actually in charge of a project, I'd recommend this as a book to help you understand what should be getting done on it.
The key to proper focus and clear priorities is the tie between the mission, goals, features, and tasks in a project. JR provides a great framework for tying them together, ensuring they're created, and ensuring the team understands them.
The book is very comprehensive which is very significant concerning the fact that among the major reasons that software development projects run into cost/schedule difficulties are incorrect assumptions, changing requirements, and late system integration breakage. All of these problems arise from the simple fact that software development is a complex business.
JR gives you a broad overview of the principles and problems that will be faced over the entire cycle of software project and very helpful practices regarding: 1. Planning and using life cycle 2. Avoiding schedule games 3. Creating and maintaining your team 3. Managing meetings 4. Dealing with multiple projects As my experience has grown, I have come to recognize the voice of greater experience speaking through this book - JR well known as the project managers of the project managers :) This is a great book for anyone who loves studying project methodologies. For the aspiring project manager, this resource provides a sound foundation in the implementation, management, and assessment of projects run according to best practices
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