BOOK – Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

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. “Manage It!” 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.

REVIEWS…

• If you are looking for a formal comparison of project methodologies then this is not the book for you. If you have been told (or in a moment of madness volunteered) to be a project manager then this book will be invaluable if you accept that from time to time you will need to recognise that the advice is specifically about software projects. However this could be an asset when you are the customer for a software project, for example the upgrade of your library management system or a new content management system. You can then use the book to check on the project management procedures being used by the contractor and highlight those that you sense are going to cause problems along the line. [here]