The Art of Project Management

Computers & Technology

Berkun, Scott

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere. Based on his nine years of experience as a program manager for Internet Explorer and lead program manager for Windows and MSN, Berkun explains to technical and non-technical readers alike what it takes to get through a large software or web development project. Making Things Happen doesn't cite specific methods, but focuses on philosophy and strategy. Unlike other project management books, Berkun offers personal essays in a comfortable style and easy tone that emulate the relationship of a wise project manager who gives good, entertaining and passionate advice to those who ask. Topics in this new edition include: 
<ul>
<li>How to make things happen 
</li> <li>Making good decisions 
</li> <li>Specifications and requirements 
</li> <li>Ideas and what to do with them 
</li> <li>How not to annoy people 
</li> <li>Leadership and trust 
</li> <li>The truth about making dates 
</li> <li>What to do when things go wrong</li> </ul> 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. It is inspiring, funny, honest, and compelling, and definitely the one book that you and your team need to have within arm's reach throughout the life of your project. Coming from the rare perspective of someone who fought difficult battles on Microsoft'sbiggest projects and taught project design and management for MSTE, Microsoft's internal best practices group, this is valuable advice indeed. It will serve you well with your current work, and on future projects to come.

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

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

The Myths of Innovation

Economics

Oreilly & Associates Inc

How do we know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most of us, even experts, get it wrong all the time. We depend more than we realize on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history. In the new paperback edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in The New York Times, bestselling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and suprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations -- truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today. Through his entertaining and insightful explanations of the inherent patterns in how Einstein’s discovered E=mc2 or Tim Berner Lee’s developed the idea of the world wide web, you will see how to develop existing knowledge into new innovations. Each entertaining chapter centers on breaking apart a powerful myth, popular in the business world despite it's lack of substance. Through Berkun's extensive research into the truth about innovations in technology, business and science, you’ll learn lessons from the expensive failures and dramatic successes of innovations past, and understand how innovators achieved what they did -- and what you need to do to be an innovator yourself. You'll discover: <ul>
<li>Why problems are more important than solutions </li> <li>How the good innovation is the enemy of the great </li> <li>Why children are more creative than your co-workers </li> <li>Why epiphanies and breakthroughs always take time </li> <li>How all stories of innovations are distorted by the history effect </li> <li>How to overcome people’s resistance to new ideas </li> <li>Why the best idea doesn’t often win </li> </ul>
"For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don’t have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we’re satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong." -- Scott Berkun, from the text "Berkun sets us free to change the world." -- Guy Kawasaki, author of Art of the Start Scott was a manager at Microsoft from 1994-2003, on projects including v1-5 (not 6) of Internet Explorer. He is the author of three bestselling books, Making Things Happen, The Myths of Innovation and Confessions of a Public Speaker. He works full time as a writer and speaker, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes magazine, The Economist, The Washington Post, Wired magazine, National Public Radio and other media. He regularly contributes to Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg Businessweek, has taught creative thinking at the University of Washington, and has appeared as an innovation and management expert on MSNBC and on CNBC. He writes frequently on innovation and creative thinking at his blog: scottberkun.com and tweets at @berkun.

Confessions of a Public Speaker

Business Culture

Provides advice for Macintosh users on how to access and use the Internet

Using the Internet with Your Mac Special Edition

Pike, Mary Ann

Internet & Social Media

Que Pub

This definitive best-of collection of one of the web's best young writers is packed with provocations and entertainments, guaranteed to make you think and smile. You'll learn to find passion, think free, manage time, pay attention and more. Fast paced, inspiring and memorable, you'll find new ideas and inspirations on every page. Essays include famous missives such as: - How to be a free thinker - The Cult of busy - Why smart people defend bad ideas - Street smarts vs. Book smarts - Hating vs. loving - Why the world is a mess - How to make a difference - How to be passionate- The secret motivation of death- Creative Thinking Hacks- How to detect BS- Why you must lead or follow and nearly 20 more provocations that will get you motivated to create, think and enjoy your life.

Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds

Berkun Media

Berkun Media, LLC

From bestselling author Scott Berkun comes this powerful story about family, identity and self-discovery. A captivating and honest exploration of who we are, and how we must choose our own way forward in life no matter what happens to us. Berkun's relationship with his father defined him, until he chose to try and define himself. With thoughtful stories that explore the meaning of Darth Vader, the mysteries of Frankenstein and the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen, Berkun combines themes from his own life with famous films and legends, to help readers ask universal questions about the first adults we know in our lives.

The Ghost Of My Father

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

The powers of creative thinking can be yours if you're willing to laugh and learn in this concise, cliche free, fun and memorable short book. With challenging chapters on topics like creative confidence, making bold decisions, and separating the need for feedback from the desire for encouragement, even if you've read other books on the subject or if this is your first, The Dance of The Possible will surprise you, make you think, laugh and perhaps even dance when you get back to work.

The Dance of The Possible: A mostly honest and completely irreverent guide to creativity

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