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Managing Projects in Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People (Jossey-Bass Management)

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This book is a refreshing look at what is most important in achieving project success: people functioning in organizations. While it reviews key tools and techniques in a user-friendly fashion, its chief goal is to raise readers' awareness of the central role of people and organizations in delivering successful projects. What's more, it is an easy read, filled with practical examples of real world scenarios. It is particularly useful for knowledge workers in businesses like IT, finance, telecoms, R&D and training because it does not get bogged down in painfully detailed treatment of techniques that are marginally useful on real-world projects.

You are bound to be disappointed if you want to learn how to manage projects from this book.

This book is a very introductory and basic book that describes project management and projects, and then delves into aspects that the author considers interesting. It can best be described as an elementary introduction to the field.

I liked the "Fast Forward MBA in Project Management" much more than this book. It gives one a set of tools and a process for managing projects.

This book is very helpful to knowledge workers. It is now translated into Chinese and doing well in China -- the first printing sold out quickly. It is friendly written and interesting. It concentrates on real issues on projects. These are not techniques, but people issues. Frame has good technique book called New Project Management. Managing Projects in Organizations has many examples that are realistic and apply in all industries and cultures. I find it especially useful for practioners in the financial and information technology sectors.

I read this book in conjunction with an online course I wastaking through ESI's The Vine. I am new to project management andthis was a good reference text, but I don't think I would haveabsorbed the information as well if I had been relying solely on the book. There is a lot of good information here, but it's pretty dry. I don't recommend trying to read this one at bedtime. END

This is a good book for Mid career PMs. Also, a good reference for MS Programs

Virtually every manager and staff professional in today's organization is asked at some point to take charge of a large or small project and see it through to completion. Organizations of all sizes constantly set up special projects to solve problems or meet new organizational needs, whether implementing office automation, conducting marketing research for a new product, designing new training programs, developing an information management system, or arranging company-wide conferences. Yet few resources are available to guide managers and staff in meeting the unique challenges involved in managing a project.

This new book is a comprehensive, practical guide to managing large and small projects of all types. J. Davidson Frame draws on his own practical experience in managing projects in private industry, as well as on the latest research on project management tools and techniques, to detail how to avoid the common pitfalls all special projects face and explain the management strategies that lead to successful project completion. Using numerous case examples as illustrations, Frame shows how to
* Identify potential problems early on so they don't erupt into disastrous surprises later
* Work within organizational constraints to obtain needed human and material resources
* Manage the inevitable politics every projects faces
* Secure cooperation from project team members and others in the organization
* Focus the project on meeting real needs and keep everyone on track in meeting project goals
* Allocate available resources wisely and keep the project on schedule and within the budget

He offers practical advice that all managers, consultants, organization development specialists, research and development professionals, information system analysts, and others can use in manageing projects of all types.
--- from book's dustjacket