Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

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The manager must have the necessary confidence and the will to take control and force certain actions. One of the key concepts in this theory is the notion of an intervention, which is an idealization of the notion of an experimental manipulation that is stripped of its anthropocentric elements. The author gives plenty of details on how to get people involved and how to deal with difficulties in project management. In all these situations you need to know how to present your unique set of skills and abilities to others.

Nur war ich doch zu neugierig, erstmal das gesamte Buch zu lesen, statt mich länger mit einzelnen Kapiteln zu befassen. Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management” by Scott Berkun provides answers to many questions project managers may want to ask. When you can identify and prioritise what you do want instead of what you don’t want, you’ve taken the first important step towards creating something new or different. Topics in this new edition include: * How to make things happen * Making good decisions * Specifications and requirements * Ideas and what to do with them * How not to annoy people * Leadership and trust * The truth about making dates * What to do when things go wrong Complete with a new forward from the author and a discussion guide for forming reading groups/teams, Making Things Happen offers in-depth exercises to help you apply lessons from the book to your job.

Answered here in his own words, with the decisive interview published in English for the first time. A successful software application is a mixture of programming, designing, scheduling, marketing, testing, some black magic, and a lot of luck. Yet, the advice he gives will be appropriate for other domains as well, since all projects tend to face similar challenges.

If we keep a simple vision for our work, we can find useful comparisons with other ways of doing things all around us. Ego/No-ego: The ego can be a driver for managers, who often derive great personal satisfaction from their work. Part One focuses on the planning process, and discusses the usual planning and scheduling, but also adds some very valuable material on why you need a vision, what constitutes a good vision, Where good ideas come from, and how to use them. There isn’t enough time for everyone to participate, and what will happen is that a small group of dominant personalities will use up most of the available time… Most committees take this form and have the expected mediocre to crappy results. Common checkpoints include feasibility studies, regrouping of ideas, three alternatives, two alternatives, and one design.What is most distressing is not the different points of view; it is the fact that very often they’re written as if the other points of view didn’t exist. When people work together in groups there is a **limited amount of authority** which can be distributed amount different people with different wishes and different motives. I would like to recommend Making Things Happen Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan for the library. Once it was clear how popular the text was going to be, O’Reilly and Berkun took out some of the superfluous bits, added in over 120 exercises and generally spruced it up to launch it into the best-seller list.

if your job includes any kind of project management especially in the world of web development, you might want to have a look at this. Now, take the pile of things you can’t control and toss them in the garbage (or use them as fertilizer). The studies assembled here focus whenever possible on meaningful, purposive choices designed to make things happen, to change the course of events or to enable a character or creative artist to shape more fully his or her own story.A product manager is the one the ties between the market and the people who are building the product. Once the requirements definition is in place, people can explore the territory encompassed in the requirements. When someone consistently takes action without regard to her commitments, she creates waves of concern that disturb the team. I find the book to be truly remarkable and absolutely stand-alone in what it describes and what it does. Big schedules must be divided into small plans to minimize risks and increase the frequency of adjustments.

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Ideas morph into designs via conversations between different people with different types of expertise.