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Lessons in Project Management
"Lessons in Project Management" highlights 50 essential project management lessons in a unique format that is unlike any other book on the market.
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Focuses on the top 50 lessons that can help project managers today (not just theory)
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Easy to read and understand, which makes this a perfect book for project managers, functional managers, team members and clients
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Engages the reader and make them interested parties in learning how the project management lessons help resolve each situation.
The resulting book provides perspective on how, why, where and when the project management lessons should be applied. Simple character development and project context will help the reader connect with each story. This format will help the reader remember how the lesson is applied to resolve each project situation. This, in turn, should make it easier for the reader to remember the lesson when it needs to be applied to his or her individual projects.
Target audience: Current project managers, potential project managers, project team members, business clients and managers of project managers.
From the Authors:
“This book is the culmination of an idea that I had many years ago for a way to more effectively mentor people in project management skills,” said Tom Mochal, President of TenStep, Inc. “Every company puts out tips and traps in emails and documents. They get read once and never picked up again. I felt that I could communicate a project management lesson more effectively if I could tell a story, a parable perhaps, that embeds and showcases a project management lesson. The reader would then have the context to know how the lesson really applies on a project.”
"Lessons in Project Management" was co-authored by Jeff Mochal, an experienced writer, editor and publicist. “This book was a collaborative affair,” Jeff noted. “Tom focused on his expertise in project management, while I was able to place each of the lessons into an overall storyline.”
It has been said that the essence of a person is made up of what they personally experience, and what they read. When you work on a project, hopefully you will be able to apply the lessons learned from prior projects. Some of those prior projects may come from this book. Buy the book. I hope you read it, enjoy it, remember it and apply its lessons on your projects.
The author explains that when you start a project must obtain an exact agreement with his client on what is being created. At higher levels this agreement is achieved through the approval of the project charter. " At low levels, the agreement is achieved through the acceptance of requirements. When these two documents have been approved, you have the information necessary for the rest of the project.
After reading the reviews on this book i feel it will be just what I am looking for.
Thanks PM Opinions
To read the story that embeds and showcases a PM lesson - I like this idea.
It would be perfect, to have a book, which will be new not only in contents, but also
in the explanation method. My recommendation: we need not only to speak to project
managers, functional managers, team members and clients - but also to TOP MANAGERS.
This category has big influence on project success and sometimes we forget this.
• Easy to read and understand, which makes this a perfect book for project managers, functional managers, team members and clients
• Engages the reader and shows how the project management lessons help resolve each situation.
