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Brilliant Project Management: What the Best Project Managers Know, Say and Do
enlarge	Authors: Stephen Barker, Rob Cole Publisher: Prentice Hall Category: Book List Price: ~~Ł9.99~~ Buy New: Ł4.47 You Save: Ł5.52 (55%) New (27) Used (6) from Ł4.47 Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 270 Media: Paperback Pages: 161 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.6 ISBN: 0273707930 Dewey Decimal Number: 658.404 EAN: 9780273707936 ASIN: 0273707930 Publication Date: March 1, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: BRAND NEW - **Delivery usually 2 - 3 * working days - From Aphrohead of SOUTHPORT, Lancs, uk *** . Priority Airmail used Worldwide on International orders. Thanks from all at Aphrohead.


Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews... What's the difference between a risk and an issue? July 10, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful As the title suggests and the other reviewers have agreed, this is a great book about project management. At around 150 pages, it is quite short and although it is written in a light-hearted and engaging way it doesn't feel short on content. Real world advice is given in the areas listed below and you also get a feel for how the authors see these different pieces fitting together to support one another (i.e. running a lessons learned log alongside the risk and issues logs - facilitating early utilisation of new knowledge and removing the `chore' perception from an end of project lessons learned debrief). But if you would like really detailed information regarding any of them you may still end up buying supplemental materials, which is something that the authors admit and something I certainly intend to do: * Project planning * Risk and issue management * Delivering quality * Resource management * Leading effective teams * Productive meetings * Facilitation skills * Making use of lessons learned Having started to study the Prince2 Manual, this book has been a welcome relief from its' very dry presentation, and at the same time a very good complement to the ideas and method set out within Prince2. As such I would certainly recommend Brilliant Project Management to anyone studying for Prince2 (which assume would also apply to MSP or other such methodologies); or for anyone new to project management; or for someone with experience under their belt but with a desire to raise the bar, be it in terms of performance, satisfaction, consistency or a combination of aforementioned. Plain and simple language June 19, 2008 2 out of 3 found this review helpful I read it in a week, simple, plain and easy language. Must buy for PMs. I agree with the 5 stars for the other reviews! January 15, 2008 2 out of 3 found this review helpful Just to say, I've done my Prince2, read up on Scrum and Agile methods etc etc, but this book filled in the gaps - not just theory, but practice !!! Practical, concise, and in my view essential. A very clear and useful book October 3, 2007 21 out of 21 found this review helpful A colleague recommended this book to me and I've used it to help me with a bit of a runaway project I was landed with. The chapter on planning really hit home, it made me sit down and think again. I could see myself falling into the all pitfalls they described. It's given me a list of points to work through and some confidence that I'm going in the right direction now. I've also used a lot of the ideas in the chapter dedicated to risks and issues. I've had plenty of these to deal with! I smiled and nodded my head when I read about people who see dealing with r&i as a boring administrative exercise. The book provides simple ways to turn this into a very useful exercise, how to get them under control and how to deal with the problems that matter. I was in firefighting mode when I first read the book so I tended to dip into certain chapters. But now things are back on track I'm taking a more leisurely stroll through the book again. The advice on people management is paying dividends now, especially as I was coming close to making one of classic mistakes they described. Reading the chapter on lessons learned was very useful too, yet another area I paid very little attention too previously. As a general point, the book helps you to think ahead and try to avoid storing problems up for yourself. The book has got loads of check-lists and "top tips" - which are practical and make the advice easy to take on board. Whilst there's nothing on project management tools (e.g. PRINCE) this is probably a plus point. You know that the advice comes from experience rather than trotting out dry theory. Why it worked for me May 30, 2007 5 out of 5 found this review helpful I found this book particularly useful having been away from Project Management for about a six months as it gave me a quick overview of all the main areas of Project Management. I was about to be given a new project and the handover to me was looming..... the chapter on planning was very helpful as it provided me with a healthcheck to run through when the project was handed over to me and a thorough checklist re what should be included in a project plan. The book is easy to read as it concentrates on practise rather than theory, which is my biggest complaint with other project management books. I would thorougly recommend this book to fellow project managers as a useful reminder of art of project management to dip in and out of as required.