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An updated and revised edition of the bestselling guide to managing projectsFor any professional responsible for coordinating projects among different departments, across executive levels, or with technical complexity, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management offers comprehensive instruction on how to deliver on time and on budget. Get the step-by-step advice you need to find the right sponsor, clarify objectives, and set realistic schedules and budget projections. This Fourth Edition of the 200,000-copy bestseller now covers critical new topics including: software and IT projects, agile techniques, and project selection.
Perfect for beginners or experienced managers needing to bring their systems up to date, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management allows readers to extract maximum information in minimum time.
- The most comprehensive introduction to project management, updated to reflect changes in the business environment over the past few years
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As a project management instructor at a state university and someone who has reviewed countless project management books, I only recommend this book if you are looking for an introduction to project management.
Look, I have an MBA and in my opinion, the only `MBA' thing about this book is that it gives you a high-level understanding of a subject matter. Although I believe the best project managers have natural soft skills, having familiarity with terms and tools can save them countless hours to get to the same result. This book provides some of the former but not nearly enough of the latter.
As a result, if you're a PM looking for tools of the trade, look elsewhere (try
Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling). If you work with PMs or manage PMs, this is a decent book to give you a basic understanding of the trade. Lastly, if you are studying for a PM certification, this isn't going to help much (try
PMP Exam Prep, Seventh Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam).
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A decade ago, I heard Eric Verzuh speak at a PMI chapter meeting in Seattle and was immediately impressed by his ability to communicate clearly and simply to a broad audience. At that event, he was selling the first edition of this book. Perusing it, I noticed a series of related charts and tables in which Eric had coalesced a Planning Model that takes the project manager from the WBS, through estimating and network diagraming, scheduling, resource allocation and leveling, and finally budgeting. I bought the book on the spot and since then have advised many hundreds of project management students that if they can produce the artifacts in Eric's Planning Model, they are doing what they need to do. In the new fourth edition (December 2011), the Planning Model is summarized on pages 493 to 501.
Each edition of the book brings new discussions of real-world projects and best practices. In the new fourth edition, Alan Shalloway contributes a discussion of agile software development and Terry Schmidt contributes a section on strategic project selection and planning.
The book is comprehensive. It has excellent chapters on stakeholder management and team building. It addresses risk management and progress tracking, including the fundamentals of earned value analysis.
And, for those of you who like templates, there are several sections of ready-to-use templates.
The best thing: a very reasonable price for the value! This book is consistently a top-seller.
By Robin Nicklas