Review: Program Management by Michel Thiry

“Thiry manages to capture the important differences between project and program management, handling them in a clear and logical manner”—Martin Vaughan reviews Michel Thiry’s ‘Program Management’.

Project management software review: Jobpac

Planet Plumbing formerly used MYOB and spreadsheets to manage projects, accounts and project estimating but then found Jobpac worked better for a project-based business. Anthony Alafaci of Planet Plumbing tells us how he uses it.

Review: Eliminating ‘Us and Them’—Steve Romero

Eliminating ‘Us and Them’: Making IT and the Business One by Steve Romero is a solid treatment on the effective governance of IT. This book is excellent for diagnosing governance health in IT and would be a terrific primer for those moving into executive roles with a governance accountability for IT, writes reviewer Ian Sharpe.

Review: Leading and managing the lean management process—Gene Fliedner

“Lean must be viewed as a framework of comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team and practices and tools.” Prabesh Aryal reviews Gene Fliedner’s book on lean management.

Review: The Well-Balanced Leader—Ron Roberts

Roberts’ new book, The Well-Balanced Leader, is written from the perspective of nine attributes that real leaders need to be successful in the workplace.

Review: Hiring for Attitude—Mark Murphy

Hiring for Attitude is a top-rated book by Mark Murphy, chairman and CEO of Leadership IQ. Prabesh Aryal provides his review:

“I believe this book would be a very good reference for project managers to assemble an attitude oriented project team.”

Review: Results Without Authority—Tom Kendrick

Results Without Authority (2nd edition) by Tom Kendrick is an excellent high level overview of gaining and retaining project control from the outset. It addresses common challenges that all project managers face across industry and is an excellent summation of best practice.

Project management tool review: Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook

The Acer Aspire S3 is the first of Intel’s Ultrabook range to come into the market. Ultrabook is the umbrella brand for Intel’s latest line of PC innards, characterised by Rapid Start, Smart Response, Smart Connect, Anti-Theft and Identity Protection technology.