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The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With a Single Sheet of Paper
written by Clark A. Campbell
Studio : Wiley
by Wiley
Publisher : Wiley
Released : 2006-11-03
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780470052372
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 24 reviews)
List Price : $19.95
Our Price : $10.64
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The One-Page Project Manager shows you how to boil down any project into a simple, one-page document that can be used to communicate all essential details to upper management, other departments, suppliers, and audiences. This practical guide will save time and effort, helping you identify the vital parts of a project and communicate those parts and duties to other team members. |
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Good stuff, but one question... |
This is a solid book and an interesting concept. I think it would go far in my organization and would like to implement it.
One question - why does a book about stripping all the info down to one page have to be 160 pages long? ;) |
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Great Book |
Great book for new project managers. You will learn how to get done more in less time in the field of project management.
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Disappointing project management resource |
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I guess I should have known better, but this book was pretty disappointing. Most of the "tips" were too superficial to be actionable or where so obvious that they were a waste of time. For people wanting some depth, try Wysocki's Effective Project Management. |
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Save your money |
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I've worked for 2 Fortune 10 companies and this particular "one page" would have never been accepted at either company. My projects were too complex to fit the WBS/tasks onto one page. Most projects are. If they were simple enough to fit on one page, they wouldn't be assigned a PM. When communicating with execs and project sponsors, they DO want their updates on one page, but not in this format. It's too much detail for them. In the event that you think this particular one page concept will work in your organization, I would still recommend you SAVE YOUR MONEY. The author offers nothing new. He quotes other, more credible, PM authors so often it felt like I was reading a 10th grade research paper. Finally, let's all shed a tear for the trees that had to die in order to make the paper that created Chapter 5: "12 Steps to Constructing the One Pager." It was 45+ pages. The author could have taken his own advice and condensed chapter 5 into one page. But that's not how one sells books, right? |
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Simplicity at its long-winded extreme |
This book is essentially a 4-5 page instruction manual to go along with a reporting spreadsheet, which has been stretched out to a 129 page book using large font, small pages, lots of white space, and repetitive figures/screen shots. The tool itself makes some sense as a nice concise report format, but the book goes on and on puffing up its abilities and the author's creativity. Some 20 or so pages are filled up by showing the sheet with a section empty, and then full; empty, and then full, as if the user (having already been told where to put info and seen screen shots of the sections in question) can't figure out how to fill in the blanks.
I found disconcerting that the image on the cover is a "modified" version of the tool they're describing, undermining the claim that this tool is well-suited for any project. If that's the case, why wouldn't they feature the basic form on the cover, rather than a customized version?
It seems like the tool could be useful to improve communication and management of projects, but the communication discussed is primarily bottom-up. The book barely touches upon how it can be used for top-down communication or how to use this to work with areas that are falling behind or going over budget. So, it's not really so much a "manager" as a "status report".
If you're looking for a simple read and a simple tool for tracking your team's progress, check this out of a library. It's not worth the money to actually buy a copy. If you're hoping to actually learn some useful project management skills, look elsewhere. |
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