Best Business Project Management

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) –Fifth Edition reflects the collaboration and knowledge of working project managers and provides the fundamentals of project management as they apply to a wide range of projects.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As a project management instructor and course developer at a state university, a project management keynote speaker, and someone who has been training project managers for nearly two decades, I highly recommend this book. - You will need another book since many exam concepts aren't even covered in the PMBOK. I personally like PMP Exam Prep, Seventh Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam or CAPM/PMP Project Management Certification All-in-One Exam Guide with CD-ROM, Second Edition. - When submitting project experience on the application, you can submit work even if your title was not Project Manager. ***Update (Sep 2013)***. New editions of the books I linked to above were released: - PMP Exam Prep, Eighth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam. - CAPM/PMP Project Management Certification All-In-One Exam Guide, Third Edition."
"So, go ahead and buy another book on studying for the PMP exam, but if that book covers any topic(s) that are NOT in THIS BOOK, you are learning content that is irrelevant for this exam. I bought Joseph Phillips study guide, and although it was helpful, there were many terms and content items NOT in the PMBOK guide, and therefore I did not get any questions on the real exam related to those terms/topics. Also, I took 5 practice exams from 3 different sources (one was from the Joseph Phillips CD) which turned out to give me false confidence because the real exam was a LOT harder. I recommend memorizing the 47 processes and being able to write them down in the chart before you take the exam."

For those who believe that there must be a more agile and efficient way for people to get things done, here is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the leadership and management process that is changing the way we live. In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating “ before Scrum ” and “ after Scrum .” Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world’s top technology companies. On a mission to put this tool into the hands of the broader business world for the first time, Jeff Sutherland succeeds brilliantly.” --Eric Ries, New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup "Engaging, persuasive and extremely practical... Scrum provides a simple framework for solving what seem like intractable and complicated work problems. In other words success requires Scrum.” --General Barry McCaffrey “Jeff Sutherland has written the essence of Scrum for the masses. This book elevates Scrum from a fix-it tool to a way of life.” --Hirotaka Takeuchi, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School “Jeff Sutherland's book masterfully speaks truth to the political complexities that easily stand in the way of getting a lot of work done in the least amount of time. The busy professionals who’ll likely be drawn to this book will find not only an effective manual for getting things done but, also, a how-to guide for living a meaningful life.” --John Maeda, Design Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “This extraordinary book shows a new way to simplify your life and work, increase your focus, and get more done in less time than you ever thought possible.” --Brian Tracy, bestselling author of Eat that Frog and Time Power. If you don’t get three times the results in one-third the time, you aren’t doing it right!” --Scott Maxwell, Founder & Senior Managing Director, OpenView Venture Partners “Jeff Sutherland used the common-sense but seldom-applied principles of the quality movement, user-centered design, and lean development to come up with a process that dramatically increases productivity while reducing employees’ frustrations with the typical corporate nonsense. Senior leaders should not just read the book—they should do what Sutherland recommends.” --Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor, Stanford Business School and c-author of The Knowing-Doing Gap “Groundbreaking…Will upend people’s assumptions about how productive they can actually be…Here Jeff Sutherland discloses to the non-tech world the elegantly simple process that programmers and Web developers have been using since he invented Scrum, showing how a small, empowered, and dedicated team can deliver significantly higher quality work at a faster pace through introspection, iteration, and adaptation.” --Michael Mangi, Senior V.P. Jeff Sutherland is currently the CEO of Scrum, Inc. and Senior Adviser to OpenView Venture Partners where he coaches venture-funded companies.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I would recommend to read it every once in a while, add you gather more experience on Scrum."
"A great refresher / reference point for a long time Lean Agile / Kanban practitioner."
"There are so many old beliefs that are questioned and shuttered in this book that it's a must read for anyone who is part of a team doing anything."
"I love this process and this book is an outstanding way to get introduced to it."
"Jeff Sutherland tells so many interesting stories from his experiences that you'll buy his book just for those stories!"
"Though the book was written decades ago it really has been completely updated."
"This book just goes on and on and on and on and on... as if the author didn’t employ Agile Methodology, himself."
"The author uses productivity as the hook to garner interest, and he does equate many concepts with productivity impact. For some reason, the author tries hard to avoid using software projects as examples. Maybe for good reason, since Scrum is type cast as a software process."

In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is the first book I’ve read about technology leadership and management that addressed it holistically from the top to the bottom of the career ladder."
"A great book for a broad range of examples on all aspects of people management, organizational management and so on."
"Although this book is explicitly for engineering managers, as a customer service/support manager I see plenty of parallels to the experiences of my own team."
"Very specific to the tech world, bringing great insights into how to become a better leader when you evolve in the technology career."
"Applies to managers or engineers at big companies or small companies."
"This book is so good that it inspired me to write my first ever Amazon review."
"Clear and precise about management from practical stand point."
Best Technical Project Management

Often when these project managers come into the PMP Exam Prep workshop the topic of earned value management (EVM) is overwhelming. Aileen's intent through the book -How to get every Earned Value Management (EVM) question right on the PMP® Exam and through the series -PMP® Exam Prep Simplified is to help every project manager not only learn to pass the PMP* Exam but also learn to manage projects better. She personally instructs project managers to gain the confidence and knowledge to pass the PMP® Exam, the CAPM® Exam and the PgMP® Exam. Working with thousands of project managers from dozens of countries, Ms. Ellis has gained a thorough understanding of the ins and outs of the PMBOK® Guide, the PMP® exam content, and proven PMP® Exam Prep strategies. Aileen’s sole aim is to provide you, the project manager, the knowledge and confidence to pass the PMP Exam without wasting your time and money.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Instead of Earned Value alone, I would have liked to have some problems on the different types of procurement contracts (FPIF, CPIF etc...) and Expected Monetary Value (EMV)."
"You can clear the earned value questions on the PMP exam by following Aileen's formulas in this book."
"Memorizing the formulas is key for quick reference on the exam, i am sure, but understanding their applications makes grasping the questions asked, so much faster."
"Who knows, but if I don’t, it will be because I failed to read the questions throughly, not because taking 53 practice question wasn’t adequate."
"Once you understand the formulas, it is really easy."
"I realizing that some of the areas I had issues with was, understanding some minor details such us the EV test questions."
"Ms Ellis provides a clear understanding of the concept of EVA, making use of graphics to assist."
"This book along with How To Get Every Network Diagram Question Right on the PMP and the PMP Exam Simplied were key to me passing the exam on the first attempt."