by Donna Fitzgerald | November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Glen Alleman on his Herding Cat’s blog just published a list of recommended project management books that I encourage everyone to check out. What I found interesting was the low number of books that overlapped between my list and Glen’s. Obviously we both had Jim Highsmith’s book Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (which in now out in [...]
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by Donna Fitzgerald | October 2, 2009 | Comments Off
I was writing a review at Amazon this morning and I noticed that a book review I had written a couple of months ago had been listed as unhelpful. The book is good, I said it was good and yet someone didn’t like what I said. Ok, I can live with that. Since I have [...]
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Category: Book Reviews Program Management Tags: Difficult People, Leadership, Power
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just picked up a new book called Reinventing Project Management by Aaron Shenhar and Dov Dvir. I freely admit what interested me about it is that it looks very similar to the model I’ve been working with for years that I call creating an ”area of order”. I’ve only had time to read snatches so [...]
Category: Book Reviews Tags: PPM Books
by Donna Fitzgerald | July 26, 2009 | Comments Off
There’s something seductively attractive about the concept of a strange attractor, that force that causes a random, unpredictable system to stay within observable boundaries without becoming either nonrandom or predictable. Margret Wheatley, in her book Leadership and the New Science, talks about the fact that strange attractors reveal the order that is inherent in certain [...]
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Category: Book Reviews Tags: CAS, Chaos Theory, Complex Adaptive Systems Theory, Strange Attractor
by Donna Fitzgerald | June 30, 2009 | Comments Off
I just got a copy of Stand Back and Deliver by Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, Todd Little and Kent McDonald. Todd, Pollyanna, Kent and I were all founding members of the Agile Project Leadership Network so I’m excited to read it. The book is focused on practical techniques that are designed to help organizations increase [...]
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Category: Book Reviews Tags: Business Agility
by Donna Fitzgerald | June 9, 2009 | 4 Comments
At the beginning of every summer I generally kick off a discussion with my peers as to what PPM books we’re planning to read during the summer. To be honest the last couple of years it’s seemed that the choices have been few and far between. I’m delighted to say that’s changed this year thank;s [...]
Category: Book Reviews Program Management Tags: Leadership, PPM Books, Program Management
