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My fellow agile blogger Ricardo Mestre has sent me a book review to publish - this is what he has to say: I've just finished to read the best Project Management book since Mike Cohn's "Agile Estimating and Planning". "Making Things Happen" isn't a Scrum-centered book; it's scope is much broader, embracing the vastness of Project Management discipline as a whole. It reminds me, in its approach of another tome - "Manage It", form Johanna Rothman, which I also recommend. "The Art of Project Management" is methodology-agnostic, strongly opinionated, covers hard-skills and soft-skills, office politics. communication and work relationship issues, decision-making processes, and much more. And does it all with such candid titles as "How to Avoid Annoying People" |
With such a broad scope, this volume could be an exhausting tour-de-force one. But far from it: Scott Berkun's approach manages, since the first page, to throw out the window the dreaded "political-correctness" that plagues so many well-intentioned (and way too mild) Project Management books.
On the contrary: Scott tells it like it is, no-frills - and being quite funny also during the process. But beware: reading "Making Things Happen" for the first time can be a bit overwhelming - that happens because the whole book is choke-full of great advices.
For that same reason, I consider this as a great reference book, a definitive "keeper" - after reading it for the first time, I just had to buy my own copy.