Posted by Kevin Brady on Tue 17th February 2009 at 05:56 PM, Filed in e bookshare
If there is only one book you want to read and you don’t want to spend more than a few hours to get up to speed on project management, this is that book.
The reason why this book is so valuable - most people when first introduced to project management are not interested in reading a lot of material on the subject and want to get a Cliff’s notes version of the subject. That’s when you can get the most benefit from this book. It is better to read this book than not read anything at all on the subject. And it is a very easy book to read.
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Many of my experienced readership will think they know the answer to this question from a personal “coal face” perspective and not realise that the best practice answer to this question could be at variance to their own view. It has never failed to surprise me over the years how many managers I have come across who think they know the answer, but when questioned singularly fail to give a response even close to the correct answer.
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What is this?
One of the key things to do during the Identification or Justification stage of setting up a Project or Programme of work is to decide which of the two approaches you are going to follow. Many managers refer to this decision process as more of an “art form” than some kind of mechanical selection process. Despite these commonly held views I have designed a scorecard to take the sweat out of deciding which approach to follow.
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sat 7th February 2009 at 07:14 PM, Filed in e bookshare
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Until the early ‘90s, project management was definitely located somewhere near the unsexy end of the business spectrum. But now, with the rise of downsizing and outsourcing, it has become one of the hot disciplines. Professional membership of the U.S.-based Project Management Institute has quadrupled in the last decade, and Microsoft claimed recently to have over 2 million users worldwide of its project-management software. The reasons for this growth are simple. Project management is about managing “projects,” that is, unique pieces of work (as opposed to ongoing operations). Downsizing, outsourcing, and the accelerating pace of change have meant that, increasingly, work is carried out on an ad-hoc, one-off project basis. The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is designed as an advanced textbook for businesspeople with a grasp of the basics and insufficient time (or inclination) to go back to school to learn more. Written by Eric Verzuh, president of the Versatile Company, a leading project-management consultancy, this is not a heavy academic text.
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What is this?
This is a tool enable you to track historical earned value statistics and is used to forecast future project performance. This tool takes the heat out of preparing EVA statistics within MSProject.
Really simple to use !
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