The Project Management Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide for Project Teams [Spiral-bound]

Paula Martin (Author), Karen Tate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997

This cost-effective pocket guide ensures that project teams achieve high-quality results. It provides each member of an organization with an easy-to-use roadmap for managing all types of projects. Whether a team is planning the construction of a new facility or implementing a customer feedback system, this pocket guide can help you avoid typical problems and pitfalls. It is packed with useful information on everything from project concept to completion. The method described in the Project Management Memory Jogger is consistent with industry standard approaches such as PMBOK, with an emphasis on participation, empowerment, individual accountability, and results, and utilizes continuous improvement tools and concepts. It measures 3.5" x 5.5".

Editorial Reviews

Review

Very happy it's updated to match PMBOK. Looking forward to checking it out. --Danielle Cogsworth --This text refers to an alternate Spiral-bound edition.

About the Author

Karen Tate, PMP, MBA, PMI Fellow, is founder of The Griffin Tate Group, Inc. (TGTG), a charter Global Registered Education Provider of the Project Management Institute. TGTG provides project management training and consulting for every one in the organization associated with projects ­project managers, project team members, project sponsors, and senior managers. She has over 25 years of domestic and international experience in project management and is the co-author of numerous books on the subject.
Paula K. Martin is the founder of, and executive consultant for, Martin Training Associates, a management consulting and training firm specializing in basic and advanced project management skills; and in the tools and processes needed to create an enterprise-wide system of innovation. Martin Training is also known for its highly innovative approach to managing a matrix organization, known as Matrix Management 2.0. Paula is the author of over 10 books, including The Innovation Tools Memory Jogger, which provides today s project leaders with the tools they need to be tomorrow s innovation leaders. Paula can be reached at [e-mail]. --This text refers to an alternate Spiral-bound edition.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 175 pages
• Publisher: Goal/QPC; 1 edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576810011
• ISBN-13: 978-1576810019
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 3.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #652,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for anyone who manages projects., November 23, 1998

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This review is from: The Project Management Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide for Project Teams (Spiral-bound)

Whether you work on huge, complex, international projects for one of the Fortune 50 or you are putting together a family reunion, you will find something of value in this little book. But don't let either the size of the book (pocket) or the size of the print (small) fool or intimidate you. The ideas are clear and accessible.

These two consultants have written a project management book for our times. Their approach is team-based and collaborative -- particularly useful for those of us who work in organizations that use teams but still think in functional silos -- as well as practical and flexible. Personally, I have always found other project management models to be too complex, too highly delineated, and too quantitative. This approach is logical, fact-based, and flexible enough for me to work the parts that apply and skip the ones that don't.

I highly recommend the book as well as the approach. If you want to get the full benefit of their methodology, bring the authors in for in-house training. That way, the kinesthetic and auditory processors in your organization will "get it" even better.

5.0 out of 5 stars Project Management Morsels, February 15, 2011

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This review is from: The Project Management Memory Jogger (Second Edition) (Memory Jogger Series) (Kindle Edition)

Here are new and improved, bite-sized morsels that are good for you! If you think that we are talking about a breakfast cereal, think again. These are the morsels of wisdom in the second edition of the Project Management Memory Jogger. They deal with the basics of both the art and the science of project management. Try some today and see how they help you become a better project manager.

4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference, July 16, 2006

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This review is from: The Project Management Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide for Project Teams (Spiral-bound)

excellent reference for the beginner or advanced PM that needs to look up something.