Definitive Guide to Project Management

The Definitive Guide to Project Management (0273663976) will show you, step by step, how to deliver the right projects in the right way at the right time, while keeping your life in balance. Using the principles critical chain management, the authors help you master the essentials of good project management and then explore the situations where good projects and good business meet. How to manage risks and politics; how to demonstrate the value added by a project; how to communicate upwards and downwards in project teams; how to energise projects; how to turn failing projects around; and how to spot likely problem projects.

It is practical, to the point, and can be used immediately. An essential companion if you want projects to be a source of inspiration not perspiration.

The Project Manager (0273701738)

The steep rise in demand for good project managers in recent years has been mirrored by the publication of book after book setting out the formal processes and mechanics of project management.  Whether they are textbooks or books aimed at the practitioner, they all usually cover the same ground - the ABCs of project management.

But anyone who has ever managed a project or overseen the management of a project in the real world knows that there is a significant difference between mastering the ABCs and mastering the practice of project management itself. To go from good to great in project management, you need to shift your focus back to the real basics of management.

In this illuminating book, Richard Newton, a successful project manager with twenty years' experience, will show you several ways you can elevate your game.