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140 Powerful Bite-Sized Insights on Managing Projects
By: Guy Ralfe, Himanshu Jhamb
Published: May 5, 2010
Format: Paperback, 108 pages
ISBN-10: 1616990082
ISBN-13: 978-1616990084
Publisher: THINKaha
"Well...we are telling you the things we wish we knew as a Project Manager then...now!", write experienced project managers Guy Ralfe and Himanshu Jhamb, in their practical and to the point book #PROJECT MANAGEMENT Tweet: 140 Powerful Bite-Sized Insights on Managing Projects. The authors share their thoughts on improving project management in brief lessons that serve as starting points for developing and enhancing skills.
Guy Ralfe (photo left) and Himanshu Jhamb share their wisdom for managing projects successfully. They cover the following areas:
* What project managers wished they knew
* What bosses wished project managers knew
* What project teams wished project managers knew
* What customers wished project managers knew
With the project management advice presented by the authors, a manager not only discovers what skills are important, but what questions should be asked. Those questions are important for the manager to understand the goals, cost estimate, time constraints, and team requirements of a project. The book contains a treasure trove of ideas for the project manager to formulate a more effective plan of action that will achieve superior results.
Himanshu Jhamb (photo left) and Guy Ralfe understand that a project manager faces pressure from different stakeholders. While the overall objective may be a successful completion of the project, there will be different input and levels of support from those same interested parties. The expectations of results and cost from the point view of the client may not coincide with the resources available to the project manager and the team. At the same time, the manager's employer may be faced with difficult choices as to the allocation of resources. Selling the team's plans, time line, cost structure, and objectives require the manager to sell the idea to the employer. The client's interests must be kept in mind, and the manager will be faced with keeping the client's wishes, and even interference, in check. The book contains valuable advice for balancing the needs and desires of each of the stakeholders, and how the project manager can achieve success despite the pressures from the various parties.
For me, the power of the book is how Guy Ralfe and Himanshu Jhamb present complex managerial advice in a succinct and easy to read format. The entire book can be read from cover to cover in about an hour, but the wisdom and concepts shared by the authors lead to many hours of contemplation. The ideas are not strictly how to tactics, but more in the style of creative thinking stimulation tools. The short tweet like points serve the double duty of sharing wisdom, while providing a jumping off point for further discussion and ideas generation.
The book is one of those great keep handy ones, that can be referred to at a glance to stimulate new ways of examining a problem. Whether the project manager needs advice on working with the boss, the team, or the client, the authors share concepts that can be put into action immediately. Those same concepts can also be built upon over time, modified to fit changing circumstances, and rewritten as dynamic challenges to existing modes of work and project management culture.
I highly recommend the concise and easy to read book #PROJECT MANAGEMENT Tweet: 140 Powerful Bite-Sized Insights on Managing Projects by Himanshu Jhamb and Guy Ralfe to any any project managers seeking a short but intensive course into improving their existing project management skills. While deceptively simple in format, the book will transform the way a manager approaches and thinks about project management and its various stakeholders.
Read the helpful and idea packed book #PROJECT MANAGEMENT Tweet: 140 Powerful Bite-Sized Insights on Managing Projects by Guy Ralfe and Himanshu Jhamb, and become the successful and results achieving project manager of your dreams. Your employer, your immediate boss, your team members, and your customers will appreciate it.
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