book 2 – Project Manager – Australia's online resource for project management professionals

Review: Introducing Emotional Intelligence—David Walton

As an entry-level book for emotional intelligence, written for general management, a new project manager will find the’ insight’ exercises a good primer, according to Ian Sharpe, who reviews David Walton’s ‘Introducing Emotional Intelligence’.

April 26, 2013

Tools

Review: The Change Book by Krogerus & Tschäppeler

The Change Book contains 52 different models of change designed to help us understand our ever-shifting world. Instead, Adeline Teoh finds a case of too much of little depth.

February 15, 2013

Theory

Disaster management book launched

Disaster management practitioner Dr Paul Steinfort and education expert Angela Lecomber have contributed a chapter on appropriate project management training for disaster and emergency situations to a new book entitled Next Generation Disaster & Security Management, edited by Dr Michael Clarke and Ged Griffin.

November 6, 2012

News

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’.

August 31, 2012

Self-directed learning in project management

PMI has developed six categories of PDUs in which one can obtain certification credits. Anne Booc provides advice on how to attain PDUs in Category C, Self-Directed Learning, one of the three Educational categories.

August 3, 2012

Professional Development

Poor governance wastes 25% of project investments

One in every four dollars of capital invested is wasted due to projects not delivering enough value in relation their cost according to value delivery experts Jed Simms and Alexandra Chapman.

July 9, 2012

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.

June 4, 2012

Communication

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.

May 14, 2012

Methodologies