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

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Sit down with your back to the other manager, until one of you creates something with the LEGOs (it doesn’t matter what it is). Having software development background (he worked in Microsoft Corporation for 10 years), Berkun refers mostly to the engineering world in his book.

Some of you know that I moved out of London eighteen months ago to fulfil a long-held dream to have a little place in the countryside. The theory of actual project management tools and techniques is not covered in detail and should be referred to in another book.

The moment when you figure out that you can do a good job, treat people with respect, and not waste too much time and effort on things that won’t work.

The challenge is to **reduce the scope of the changes** until you have a satisfactory finished product. 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.Time and time again, clients who use this approach exclaim their surprise at what comes to pass as a result. Project managers need to be good at managing office politics and the power shifts that come with it, and this is a clear and concise introduction to what it actually means. I have received impressions about this book and I think it is a good roadmap to encourage future Project Managers. Making Things Happen is the classic bestseller on managing and leading project teams, known for it’s honest, funny and insightful approach to what is often a deadly boring subject.