Produktbeschreibung
If the projects you manage don't go as smoothly as you'd like, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know offers knowledge that's priceless, gained through years of trial and error. This illuminating book contains 97 short and extremely practical tips -- whether you're dealing with software or non-IT projects -- from some of the world's most experienced project managers and software developers. You'll learn how these professionals have dealt with everything from managing teams to handling project stakeholders to runaway meetings and more.
While this book highlights software projects, its wise axioms contain project management principles applicable to projects of all types in any industry. You can read the book end to end or browse to find topics that are of particular relevance to you. 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know is both a useful reference and a source of inspiration.
Among the 97 practical tips:
* "Clever Code Is Hard to Maintain...and Maintenance Is Everything" -- David Wood, Partner, Zepheira
* "Every Project Manager Is a Contract Administrator" -- Fabio Teixeira de Melo, Planning Manager, Construtora Norberto Odebrecht
* "Can Earned Value and Velocity Coexist on Reports?" -- Barbee Davis, President, Davis Consulting
* "How Do You Define 'Finished'"? -- Brian Sam-Bodden, author, software architect
* "The Best People to Create the Estimates Are the Ones Who Do the Work" -- Joe Zenevitch, Senior Project Manager, ThoughtWorks
* "How to Spot a Good IT Developer" -- James Graham, independent management consultant
* "One Deliverable, One Person" -- Alan Greenblatt, CEO, Sciova
Inhaltsverzeichnis
From the contents:
Chapter 1 Get Users Involved As Early As Possible
Chapter 2 Avoid Whack-a-Mole Development
Chapter 3 A Word Can Make You Miss Your Deadline
Chapter 4 Make Project Sponsors Write Their Own Requirements
Chapter 5 Favor the Simple Over the Complex
Chapter 6 Pay Your Debts Chapter 7 Add Talents, Not Skills, to Your Team
Chapter 8 Keep It Simple, Simon
Chapter 9 You Aren't Special
Chapter 10 Scrolling Through Time
Chapter 11 Save Money on Your Issues
Chapter 12 How to Spot a Good IT Developer
Chapter 13 Developer Productivity: Skilled Versus Average
Chapter 14 Size Matters
Chapter 15 Document Your Process, Then Make Sure It Is Followed
Chapter 16 Go Ahead, Throw That Practice Out
Chapter 17 Requirement Specifications: An Oxymoron
Chapter 18 Success Is Always Measured in Business Value
Chapter 19 Don't Skip Vacations for the Project
Chapter 20 Provide Regular Time to Focus
Chapter 21 Project Management Is Problem Management
Chapter 22 Empowering Developers: A Man Named Tim
Chapter 23 Clever Code Is Hard to Maintain
Chapter 24 Managing Human Factors in IT Project Management
Chapter 25 Use a Wiki
Chapter 26 The Missing Link
Chapter 27 Estimate, Estimate, Estimate
Chapter 28 Developers Unite PMOs Are Advancing
Chapter 29 Value Results, Not Just Effort
Chapter 30 Software Failure Is Organizational Failure
Chapter 31 A Voice from the Other Side
Chapter 32 Keep Your Perspective
Chapter 33 How Do You Define "Finished"?
Chapter 34 The 60/60 Rule
Chapter 35 We Have Met the Enemy...and He Is Us
Chapter 36 Work in Cycles
Chapter 37 To Thine Own Self Be True
Chapter 38 Meetings Don't Write Code
Chapter 39 Chart a Course for Change
Chapter 40 IT Program Management: Shared Vision
Chapter 41 Planning for Reality
Chapter 42 The Fallacy of Perfect Execution
Chapter 43 Introduce a More Agile Communication System
Chapter 44 Don't Worship a Methodology
Chapter 45 Don't Throw Spreadsheets at People Issues
Chapter 46 One Deliverable, One Person
Chapter 47 The Fallacy of Perfect Knowledge
Chapter 48 Build Teams to Run Marathons, Not Sprints
Chapter 49 The Holy Trinity of Project Management
Chapter 50 Roadmaps: What Have We Done for You Lately
Autoreninfo
Barbee Davis, PMP, PHR, before becoming an Integrated Project Management Workshop instructor, was Co-owner and Vice President of Sales and Training for ExecuTrain of Nebraska, which opened in 1992. She came to ExecuTrain from Wilson Learning, where she was an accredited facilitator for their Management Development, Sales, Customer Service and Time Management workshops.
Barbee has many years of experience in training and consulting, and has written and facilitated technical training for IBM Corporation and other large customers. She has designed and implemented projects in a number of varied industries, and has been involved in large project rollouts for many national corporations.
In addition to Barbee's years of experience with ExecuTrain and Wilson Learning, she owns Davis Consulting, formed to provide Training and Development workshops, customized training materials, and Project Management consulting services. She has been on staff with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska Wesleyan, and Bellevue University. She has written a national HIPAA manual and is proficient in online learning instructional design, having both written for and taught on Blackboard for universities and corporate clients.
Ms. Davis holds a degree in Education, a Master's, a PMP (Project Management Professional,) and a national accreditation in Human Resources (PHR). Barbee writes a semi-monthly feature for the Project Management Institute publication Community Post, in which she guides international project managers to more successful projects.
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