The following books influenced me the most this year: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5 by Timothy Ferriss …
Work moves around. If it can be produced cheaper, more efficiently or better, it gets relocated. Talent moves around. If one area on the globe is more exciting and thrilling than another, people relocate. Works moves around. And people that perform the work move around. Not necessarily dependent of each other. Regional population changes rapidly. …
Bill Dow and Bruce Taylor have worked four years to bring us the “Project Management Communications Bible“. This book about the most important aspect of Project Management will be available in the first quarter of 2008 and will contain over 1200 pages! Wow. I had a great chat with both of them about their upcoming …
Managing Agile Projects is a book edited by Kevin Aguanno, a noted speaker and educator on agile project management. It describes techniques for managing projects in environments where the scope is constantly changing. This book is about techniques common to nearly all of the agile development methods (Extreme Programming, Scrum, Feature Driven Development, DSDM, Lean …
There are not many books available that cover the topic of when to apply an agile or plan driven method. In my opinion the selection of when to apply a certain technique or process component remains the most difficult area of Project Management. I only know of two books that cover this in detail, my …