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Advanced Project Management: A Complete Guide to the Key Processes, Models and Techniques

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This book completely misses out on the important ideas. It goes in painful detail through whether to use glue, sticky tape, pins or post-it notes to stick paper to to a wall, but fails to explain how to think of what to write on the paper. Each chapter ventures towards an important topic, then misses it. Each example is unrealistic.

Where you might think that senior project managers would have to deal mainly with human issues rather than technical ones, this book has only half a page on getting to know the project team, and suggests that people will be sufficiently motivated by seeing someone in the canteen using project merchandise like a pen.

I didn't find anything 'advanced' here.

Advanced projects are particularly demanding because of their complexity, novelty, scale, scope, cost and logistics. Author Alan D. Orr provides a detailed and useful guide to every step of advanced project management. He leaves nothing to chance or to the imagination. The charts and spreadsheets he recommends are clearly appropriate to the purpose, and his outline of project management questions, planning milestones, team building methods and tracking tools are clear and to the point. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone managing a complex project for the first time. We believe even a seasoned project manager would find it useful.

I'm relatively new to project management and I needed a book that was practical and human in it's approach. This book was it. It's enabled me to see beyond the charts and methods and relaise that running projects successfully is about people. The book covers team building, stakeholder management and the politics of driving through the work - just what I've been searching for.

In particular I found it really helped me realise that I need to go further in my thinking if I want my projects to succedd.

This was excellent I'd thourghly recommend it to anyone.

Often project mangement books are about Gantt charts or Microsoft project. They don't explain what you actually need to do. This book is different, it really gets to the heart of the matter. It walks through the different phases and puts a human slant on how to actually get things done - practically.
Excellent all round.

I found that this book covered the topic of project management properly. It explained in a manner that was easy to understand how you should manage a project. It gave a real world impression of the work of a project manager. It also gave a good explanation of some of the more difficult aspects of managing big projects. This could become a standard for all project managers!

I've been a project manger for over 7 years and have recently started to manage larger projects. These involve a level of politics and planning complexity that I've been a bit of a loss with. Reading this book has proved very worthwhile. It shows how to tackle the politics and the people issues something I'd struggled a bit with.

If anything I'd have liked the author to write more. They seemded to just have such good practical experience to impart:)