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Title: Project Management for the Technical Professional by Michael Singer Dobson ISBN: 1-880410-76-1 Publisher: Project Management Institute Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical guidelines for managers of people and projects
Comment: Project management is far more than just whether you know how to draw a Gantt chart or use Microsoft Project. In fact, the technical "project management" skills are often the least important skills you need to get a project done. It's the people issues, the political issues, the organizational issues that end up spelling the difference between failure and success.
Especially if you're in the IT field, or indeed in any area of high tech, there's a good chance that you became a project manager by growing out of a technical position. And when you do, you normally find out that it's a whole different world. In my experience, your organization usually doesn't spend nearly enough time helping you through this transition. It's sink or swim, and I've watched a number of people go through this process (in addition to going through it myself), to witness the full range of outcomes. Even when people succeed, it isn't easy for them.
A regular project management book often needs a supplement, and this supplement would be a excellent part of any project manager's library. It's practical, insightful, sympathetic (it's pretty clear that the author is writing from personal--and sometimes painful--experience of his own), and even witty (the footnotes have hidden jokes that only very knowledgeable science fiction readers will be able to ferret out; but don't worry, the book is still funny and fully understandable even without knowing all the references).
What does the book tell you? First, how to make the transition inside yourself to be a good project manager, with emphasis on "manager." Second, how to extend and expand your influence over people--and every real project manager knows full well that on projects you normally don't have official power over all the people whose cooperation you need. Third, how to understand all the management systems and tools that you probably didn't study in college. (The book has the best short descriptions of concepts like TQM and ISO-9000 and MBO and the like I've ever read--it's like having a quick Cliffs Notes of an entire MBA, and that's only in one chapter!)
Another review here talks about how little "technical" project management is in the book. Fair enough. If you want to know how to draw a Gantt chart, buy another book. But if you want to know how to manage people, and that hasn't been your strong suit in the past, add this one to your shelf at the same time--and I'll bet you'll refer to this one a lot more often than the other.
Rating: 1
Summary: You Can't Judge a Book by the Title on the Cover
Comment: This book should be titled "Moving into Management for the Technical Professional." Less than twenty pages are devoted to project management. I gave it one star for meeting the expectations of the title, but for the actual topic covered it rates a three or four. It discusses the challenges and pitfalls for a technical professional who moves into the role of managing other technical professionals. And also gives good guidance on how your thinking must change to be successful in your new role.
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Title: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) -- 2000 Edition by Project Management Institute ISBN: 1880410230 Publisher: Project Management Institute Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Q & As for the PMBOK Guide, 2000 Edition by Project Management Institute ISBN: 1930699107 Publisher: Project Management Institute Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures by Project Management Institute ISBN: 1880410818 Publisher: Project Management Institute Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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