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Visualizing Project Management: Models and Frameworks for Mastering Complex Systems

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Visualizing Project Management, 3rd Edition is an excellent read! Throughout my career I have led or have been part of projects whereby risk management was defined as risk statusing. Real risk identification and their impacts to projects were ignored. In Visualizing Project Management 3rd Edition, the book focuses on the technical aspects of projects which is critical to project succcess and has a whole chapter dedicated to risk Management (chapter 13, Opportunities and their Risks). This was extremely valuable to me. Now that I have read this book, I am eager to tackle my next project.

This book was assigned as THE textbook for my graduate Level Project Management class. It is a good read, great at presenting its ideas, and easy to understand. It unfortunately talks only of a couple of project management techniques vaguely and what examples are included are very short with little or no good background. I'd sell this book as a good starter for those looking to gain understanding in PM, but with the understanding that other books would be needed for true enlightenment in particular areas.

In my opinion the title does not cover the contents. The contents is by far more textual than visual. I was expecting a collection of models, process flows, graphs, templates, forms and pics with a how to... Something like 50/50 text and visuals. So it didn't meet my expectations, not by a long shot.

However, it is a little more richly illustrated than the usual textbooks on the matter and the authors use clear language to explain complex systems. Further it covers some ground not covered in PMBOK or PRINCE2. Therefor I decided to keep it.

I am fairly new to the PM role where I am responsible for other's work, so I purchased this book as a reference tool and so far it has helped in terms of having examples that I can start with instead of starting from scratch.

Other than that, I have relied on my leadership and team building skills to meet deadlines which proves to be more important that having the pretty models, charts, etc.

I'm currently reading everything I can find on complex project management and this one was a big disappointment. The sub-title "Models and Frameworks for Mastering Complex Systems" suckered me in. In fact, this is a great texbook on everything we already knew. But it barely scratches the surface--it touches on Agile--of what we're learning on complexity science and chaos theory, particularly from the military. Skip this one.

I've followed the maturation of the VPM books now up to version 3 and continue to be impressed by the straight forward approach to project management the authors use. The dual V takes the industry standard to a thrid dimension and truly captures systems of systems development. A must read for any technical project manager.

Good options for new or used, good service, easy to use site, = I got what I wanted at a super price.

product came in good condition and on-time.

that was all that I wanted.