Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2008. gada 25. marts - 410 lappuses In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere.
Coming from the rare perspective of someone who fought difficult battles on Microsoft's biggest projects and taught project design and management for MSTE, Microsoft's internal best practices group, this is valuable advice indeed. It will serve you well with your current work, and on future projects to come. |
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... focus on the core situations and provide advice on how to handle them well. I've wagered heavily on picking the right topics and giving good advice over all other considerations. I hope you find that I've made the right choice. Who ...
... focused essays, as a single extended narrative, and as a reference for common situations. Each chapter takes on a different high-level task, provides a basic framework, and offers tactics for successfully completing the task. However ...
... focus you will have in doing it. If we keep a simple view of our work, we can find useful comparisons to other ways to make things that exist all around us. There will be more examples and lessons from history and modern industries that ...
... focused. But in some situations, impatience works against the project. Some political, cross-organizational, or ... focus on this list of paradoxes heavily again (although it comes up a few times later on), it is a worthy reference ...
... focus on the less-important things that are easy to work with (spreadsheets or reports), rather than the important things that are challenging to work with (the programming effort or the schedule). They may develop the belief that if ...
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Where ideas come from | 89 |
What to do with ideas once you have them | 113 |
Part Two | 133 |
What to do when things go wrong | 213 |
Part Three | 239 |
Why leadership is based on trust | 241 |
Making things happen | 259 |
Middlegame strategy | 279 |
Endgame strategy | 301 |
Power and politics | 329 |
A guide for discussion groups | 353 |
Writing good specifications | 135 |
How to make good decisions | 155 |
Communication and relationships | 175 |
process email and meetings | 193 |
index | 373 |
About the Author | 393 |