The Art of Project Management, Scott Berkun
The Book: The Art of Project Management
In Scott Berkun’s the Art of Project Management (O’Reilly, 2005), you’ll learn from a former Microsoft team leader how to plan, manage and lead projects. This fun and entertaining account of hard lessons learned over a decade of work in the software industry can help you in your current work, and on future projects to come. Written for software developers and anyone leading teams or projects.
- How to make things happen
- How to make good decisions
- Specifications and requirements
- Where ideas come from
- How to manage ideas
- How not to annoy people
- Leadership and trust
- Midgame / endgame strategy
- The truth about making dates
- What to do when things go wrong
- Power and politics
- Team communication & relationships
- Visions and plans