I’m proud to announce that Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management is a Jolt Award finalist. Andy made a short video you might like to see. I’m excited. Manage It! is up against other fine books, so there’s no guarantee it will win an award. But it’s very exciting to have made […]
Brad Appleton posted his review of Manage It!. I’m psyched that Brad liked it. Here’s a quote: The chapter devoted to Recognizing and Avoiding Schedule Games is possibly worth the price of the book alone. Thanks, Brad.
Anton has published a lovely set of comments about Manage It!. I especially liked this quote: i just feel so comfortable with her take on project management – there is no agilist zealotry or flashy theatrics. Also see the review from the Java User Group. The summary there was: In conclusion I suggest this book
Greg Wilson posted a lovely review, Managing, Reviewing, and RESTing. I particularly like this part: Her new book is her best yet: personal without being chatty, and informative without being dry, it covers everything a technical manager needs to know about running a development project. Thanks Greg, and I’ll make sure my editor sees
Some lovely reviews of Manage It! were posted when I was traveling last month, and I didn’t remember to blog them. Sigh. Wagnerblog has a great review, focused the on schedule games chapter. (That chapter was a blast to write.) My good friend an colleague, Ken Flowers, wrote this review. Here’s the sentence I
I’m pleased that here are several nice reviews of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management. See the most recent: The Library’s post. Labels: Manage It, project
Drum roll please… Manage It! Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management is available. (I don’t know when it will be available from Amazon. Soon, I suspect.) See the press release. I’m sooo excited. Labels: Manage It, project management
I am happy to report that Manage It! is at the printer, both the book and the cover. We’re looking sometime in June as a ship date. Just thought you’d want to know 🙂 Labels: Manage It, project management
After speaking with Mary Poppendieck at the Software Development conference a few weeks ago, I instigated a name change for Successful Project Management with Andy and Dave. Mary said the name was boring, and I had a number of cutesy suggestions. Luckily, Dave cut through the cute, and we decided on “Manage It!: Your Guide
During the past few week, while editing Successful Project Management, I had an opportunity learned to discover other ways I weaken my writing. I already knew about “get” and “put” and “do”–any words you can command a computer–are weak verbs. It’s ok to use them to start writing, but my writing is stronger when