By Kim Heldman
"I just recently become a certified project manager (PMP certified 05/03) and work for a global IT integrator as a the.."
"my study time towards this book and about 25% towards studying the PMI's PMBOK (Project Management Institute's Project Management Book of Knowledge)..."
By Robert K. Wysocki
"Project Management is a field where there are many concepts with dependencies on one.."
"It surely gives a good foundation to someone who is learning Project Management..."
"An excellent book on management of IT projects..."
"The author discusses three different kinds of project management: Traditional, Adaptive and Extreme..."
"The book is worth the purchase price for just the discussion on the Traditional project management method..."
By Tom Demarco
"The book then develops a comprehensive method for risk management in IT (or other) projects. It may be surprising where DeMarco & Lister start from,
explaining what.."
"Maybe it's my background as a physicist, but I assumed that most project managers understand the concept of uncertainty in estimates of cost, timescale.."
"benefit in risk terms, you have a very powerful but relatively simple model for project prioritisation. Overall this is a good book which I can recommend, but not.."
"As DeMarco and Lister state, you can't do any meaningful risk management or prioritisation unless costs and benefits are estimated, measured and.."
"The chapter on Core Risks of software projects is priceless..."
By Ken Schwaber
"Each case is a mini-retrospective focusing on topics such as planning a scrum project, project reporting, team formation, and team member responsibilities..."
"immediately had many questions once we actually tried to implement it in real life projects..."
By Jim Highsmith
"Highsmith's third book, "Agile Project Management : Creating Innovative Products", is one of those rare books which.."
"says a lot: "Delivering valuable products is important, and it's critical to project management success..."
"No project team can exist for long without delivering value to its customers..."
"" This is a book all project managers should read..."
"Effective communication between all stakeholders in the project is the real key to increased efficiency, and this book is packed with sound.."
By Project Management Institute
"format) of a set of guidelines that represent two things: (1) a De Jure standard for project management, which is the American National Standard classified as
ANSI/PMI.."
"primary resources that you need to thoroughly know in order to successfully pass the Project Management Professional(PMP)certification examination..."
"NOTE: According to the Project Management Institute candidates seeking PMP certification in 2001 will also.."
"provides an overview of the nine knowledge areas and 39 processes embodied in the project management framework..."
"Chapter 2 adds a brief piece on the role of project offices, which was not in the 1996 edition..."
By Pankaj Jalote
"one of the best track records in the successful completion of software development projects..."
"success is most impressive in an area where somewhere close to one-third of the projects either are canceled or experience cost overruns in excess of 125%..."
"development that is organized, from the first sketch of an idea to the last comment in the project post-mortem..."
"implementation and never, ever miss a chance to learn and record something new for the next project..."
"They attribute this level of achievement to a sound and repeatable management strategy and the purpose of this book is to articulate that strategy..."
by Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl
"This book has grown from a course on supply chain management taught to second-year MBA students at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. The
goal of this class is to cover not only high-level supply chain strategy and concepts, but also to give students a solid understanding of the analytical tools
necessary to solve supply chain problems. With this class goal in mind, our objective was to create a book that would develop an understanding of the following
three key areas and their interrelationships:
The strategic role of the supply chain Key drivers of supply chain performance Analytical tools and techniques for supply chain analysis"
By Larissa T. Moss
"book is impressive in its scope! Starting with the business justification of the project, Moss and Atre emphasize requirements, metadata, and
extraction/transformation/.."
"Perhaps most important to a project manager tempted to cut out a step, is a warning about the risk of omitting.."
"This book offers a good plan, and I would be happy if our Business Intelligence projects followed the plan laid out here!!.."
"This book is the perfect blend of project management techniques, application of the software development lifecycle framework,.."
"and decision support / business intelligence projects..."
