One Project Too Many: A Novel Approach to the Management of Projects, Portfolios and Programmes - Softcover

Reiss, Geoff; Leigh, Geof

 
9781900391122: One Project Too Many: A Novel Approach to the Management of Projects, Portfolios and Programmes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1900391120 ISBN 13: 9781900391122
Publisher: Project Manager Today, 2004

Synopsis

One Project Too Many is edutainment, it is a novel where true-to-life characters struggle with too many projects and especially with one big one. More real than any text book this will teach you how it really it in an entertaining way.

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Review

`Imagine a cross between PG Wodehouse and the PRINCE manual and you have some idea of how the authors of this unusual textbook use the form of a comic novel to deliver the content of a thorough project management course.' ... `Highly recommended' Brett Hannam, Project Manager Today --magazine review

`It is inevitable that this book will become required reading for managers trying to get to grips with
project management' ... `in the future will be considered a classic business text'. Ed Burney-Cumming, Project - the magazine of the Association for Project Management. --magazine review

Synopsis

This is the long-awaited new book from Geoff Reiss. With Geof Leigh he has created an 'educational novel'. The authors wanted to go beyond textbook treatises on project and programme management to include real-life experience. This is captured as the story unfolds to show that the 'politics' of an organisation is just as important as 'best practice' management. The story of a new CEO and his 'project challenge' to the organisation takes the reader through all the by-ways of modern project and programme management with a cast of characters who display many of the frailties of those of us who work in projects. In addition to the story, the book contains all the information created and used by the team as they struggle to get the 'e-trolley' project off the ground and introduce the bones of programme management in the organisation. Anna's filing cabinets placed at strategic points in the text, lead the author to the technical content at the back of the book.

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Publisher
Project Manager Today
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1900391120
ISBN 13 
9781900391122
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
266