The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper [Paperback]

Clark A. Campbell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 4, 2008

Clark A. Campbell, author of a best-selling book on project management, has written a project management guide specifically for IT professionals who want to save time and work more efficiently. The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects:Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper presents you with a winning formula for managing your complex IT projects using minimal resources. Coverage of vital topics like working with outside consultants, ERP project management, and ISO 9000 will be of special interest to IT managers and CIOs.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Manage any IT project—on a single sheet of paper!

In The One-Page Project Manager, Clark Campbell showed managers how to reduce any project—no matter how big or complicated—to a simple, one-page document perfect for expressing essential details, communicating those details to upper management, and tracking progress. Now, this uncommonly practical guide offers the same concise thinking and practical guidance to IT project managers. Fully adaptable to virtually any project in your organization, The One-Page Project Manager for IT Projects is the ultimate tool for overworked IT managers who understand the value of simplicity.

Praise for Clark Campbell's The One-Page Project Manager

"Clark Campbell has done it again. . . . created another OPPM (One-Page Project Manager) winner! What would it be worth to you to ensure all of your IT projects delivered the expected value? Clark describes a high-level methodology and tool to help you achieve this goal."
—from the Foreword by Dave Berg, former chief information officer, IBM, Unisys, and Sun Microsystems

"Provides a proven process for project management that significantly improves the chances that the project will be completed on time, on budget, and on target."
—Steven C. Wheelwright, PhD, Baker Foundation Professor, Senior Associate Dean, and Director of Publications Activities, Harvard Business School

"If you've ever needed to manage several projects at once, you know the dilemma: there has to be a better way to track the projects quickly, concisely, and reliably,but finding and learning that better way always seems too tedious, costly, or complicated. This book solves that problem."
—Frank Luby, author and Partner, Simon-Kucher & Partners

About the Author

Clark A. Campbell is Senior Vice President at O.C. Tanner, and is the award-winning author of the highly acclaimed book, The One-Page Project Manager.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047027588X
• ISBN-13: 978-0470275887
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Clark A. Campbell is a Senior Vice President at OC Tanner, where he has served in a number of executive positions and managed numerous large projects.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, October 30, 2008

By 

J. Giles - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper (Paperback)

I have the first One-Page Project Manager book written by Clark Campbell, and as a Producer in the Video Game Industry I knew I needed to order the second book specifically written for IT Project Managers. These books gave me insight on project organization that I never learned in Business school or after 10-years in the industry. Great hands-on concepts that will simplify your life as a Project Manager.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good concept, October 15, 2009

By 

Marc Genberg "WWII student" (Fairfax, VA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper (Paperback)

This book describes a specific tool (Excel spreadsheet based) for managing projects and in particular, IT projects. This is covered early in the book and then some practical application follows in the remaining chapters.

The basic concept of trying to manage a project with one page is great. The concept proposed is that as the project gets more complex and can be broken into sub-projects, these are then elaborated using their own 'one-page'.

The practical application and other sections of the book contain some simple and useful approaches. I particularly like Clark Campbell's categorization of the various types of personnel he would choose for a project to ensure a high functioning team. Most of the material I found somewhat simple; which is good if you're looking for a basic text to help with project management but if you're a crusty PM veteran seems somewhat light in substance.

While I may not utilize the template Campbell has defined, I took away from this book some ideas for enabling simpler communication and reporting for project status. This was a good book but I was left wanting a little more when I was done.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical from beginning to end, January 28, 2009

By 

Jeffrey K. Ross (Louisville, KY USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The One Page Project Manager for IT Projects: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper (Paperback)

I discovered this book yesterday and read it today. It's a quick read and well worth the time to study. I can say with confidence that it has added a signifcant new tool to my project management arsenal that will help me communicate all the important facets of a project at a glance on a single sheet of paper.

If you haven't read his first book, "The One-Page Project Manager," then the first chapter brings you up to date on the gist of that book. The second chapter is targeted to CIOs to capture their interest. The remainder then discusses the OPPM approach in a variety of customizations for various IT types of projects as well as managing the use of consultants in projects. While each project should not customize the template (which would make reading many formats confusing), the author encourages companies to tweak the format when needed since the OPPM exists to serve the project and not the other way around.

Stakeholders in addition to those at upper management levels will benefit from the simplicity of the OPPM format and the status at a glance.

Templates and completed samples of the spreadsheets are available for free download from www.onepageprojectmanager.com. Check it out.