A comprehensive treatment of project mangement relevant to construction management
4/12/2008
This book is the definitive reference standard for project management in many fields - Information technology, manufactoring, pharmaceuticals and construction. Although many construction personnel have "project manager" on their business card, few know of and continuously apply the full processes defined in this book.
The early steps, such as establishing a charter, are freqeuntly given less attention, for similar projects, than is desireable -" Do it like we did the last one". The book's treatment of this subject can help avoid possible problems from this less than rigourous approach.
Time and cost management is well developed in construction, and the book's treatment of these subject offers little new. Scope management is well known in construction, but results could stand improvement, and this section can help refocus on this task.
Quality management is known and discussed in construction, but purposful action lags. Construction is just as capable of inplementing quality management as any other industry, and this section of the book is a useful framework for this effort.
The book does suffer from an unnecessary amount of technical jargon, which is a barrier to widespread understanding. Much of the jargon could be changed to terms with identical meaning, that are more widely known in many industires.
Choosing Project Success - A Guide for Building Professionals
Most important but very dry reading
4/21/2008
If you can read this book and don't sleep then you are something :). I think this guide needs some facelift and some more examples etc.
This is the bible
4/25/2008A lot of people would say that the book does not has flow and is not easy to understand etc ............... but so is project management profession to most of the people, even though they believe they do. People say it not practical, but many are the challenges in project management profession, and to deal with them we need to have a sound base of whats ideal. I mean how would you know the risk of what you are doing unless you know how it is supposed to be done.
This book is straight and challenges you.
exactly what was needed..
5/24/2008The book is mandatory reading for the PMP exam. It's written quite well and an easy read dispite the subject matter that most would find really boring.
A book that I don't need but have to have it.
5/25/2008
A book I have to have for PMI certification. Is it worth it? Not really.