Project Management

Jimbeam3678

Jimbeam3678

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I've recently had a promotion at work and they are looking at getting me involved in project management.

Work are willing to put me through a prince2 project management course but whilst they are organising this which historically will take a while I'm looking for some foundation books on the subject.

Any suggestions? I've obviously looked on Amazon but there seems to a huge choice so looking for some first hand recommendations.
 
Well this escalated quickly I only asked for book suggestions.:p

To the answer the questions I guess it's only small IT related projects for example bringing in new tech etc etc.

So what book would you lovely people suggest for learning PM techniques at beginners level ?

By the sounds of it Prince stuff is best studied whilst I'm on the course.

Any other advice then fire away :)
 
dowie said:
OK...

the best project managers I've worked with have been women who have basically treated it like an admin role rather than acting like they're in a management role

they write their reports for senior management, keep track of the progress of various tasks and tell people which tasks are currently a priority and which are less important right now - basically they had good organisational skills and good people skills... they knew when to back off and give people space, they just wanted to know when something was going to be finished and/or be told if/when anything changes with regards to that

the worst was also a woman - she was new to the company and seemed to be under the impression she was managing the people working on the project rather than managing the project - continually chasing things, wanting to know irrelevant details or starting arguments when something went wrong and was pushed back, attempting to micromanage despite the fact no one directly reported to her... she got ignored/sidelined and quit the company pretty quickly...
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Thank you for the above post sounds exactly how I imagined a PM role on smaller projects. Really appreciate it , however still after a suitable book :p
 
Holy thread resurrection, finally managed to get on this course. Passed Foundation and Practitioner which I'm obviously pleased at.

Its far from simple, required a lot of revising.
 
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