{"id":6,"date":"2008-03-10T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T12:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2012-11-17T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T20:06:34","slug":"the-art-of-project-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"The art of project management"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Art of Project Management
\nBy Scott\u00a0Berkun <\/a>
\n………………………………………..
\nPublisher: O’Reilly
\nPub Date: April 2005
\nISBN: 0-596-00786-8
\nRating: ****<\/p>\n

“Completing projects doesn’t happen often in most lifetimes. Creating good things that other people will use in their lives is an incredible challenge. It’s a time worthy of extraordinary celebration: live it up.”<\/p>\n

This book is about project management applied to software development business, however it has a great deal of information to make it interesting for project management practitioners in other areas (although some of the examples relevance will disappear).
\nThe book has 2 very important ingredients that I praise in any technical book:
\n– It presents useful and practical information;
\n– It has rhythm and feeds the information to the reader in a very enjoyable way;<\/p>\n

I have 2 sections to highlight:
\n– Scott view about what a manger is;
\n– Scott analogy between the angle a plan have to achieve for a successful landing and the control a project manger has to do in order to successfully achieve a milestone;<\/p>\n

You can view my notes card for this book<\/a> for some words and ideas that especially draw my attention and made an impression on me.
\nThe book is already at the second edition <\/a>\u00a0which brought it also a new name. Scott thinks the first edition name was buzz word compliant and lame, therefore assuming his mistake found a better one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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