Making Things Happen

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1. skydhashMay 2024
   Peopleware by Tom Dermaco & Timothy Lister.

   Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun. Bu I haven’t finished reading it yet.

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2. wheelinsupialNov 2023
   I enjoyed “Making Things Happen” by Scott Berkun. You can start with the blog [1] to see if you like the style and probably get a good overview without needing the book.

   Other than that, there is the standard set of PMP prep resources, but I didn’t find any of those to be anything other than dry and boring.

   [1] https://scottberkun.com/blog/

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3. pjmorrisDec 2022
   'Becoming A Technical Leader', Gerald Weinberg. Jerry, working for IBM, designed the telemetry system NASA used to track early manned space flights and then spent a career helping organizations, teams, and people achieve their goals, both technical and personal. He wrote many books on the topics you mention, all of them worthwhile. I picked this one as a place to start.

   'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun. Berkun was a successful developer and product manager at Microsoft and the book captures his reflections and research on project management.

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4. pjmorrisJul 2020
   My two favorites for this are 'Becoming a Technical Leader', Gerald Weinberg, and 'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun.
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5. pjmorrisApr 2020
   'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun
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6. cpetersoDec 2016
   “Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager” is a high-level but pretty complete introduction. It has good good examples from non-technical projects based on the Project Management Institute’s infamous “Project Management Body of Knowledge” (PMBOK).

   Scott Berkun’s “Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice)” details some of the less process-oriented, more “in the trenches” aspects to managing a project.

   Steve McConnell’s “Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules” is more of an encyclopedia of software project management. Published in 1996, it’s now a bit dated, pre-dating Scrum and Agile but all those ideas have been known for a long time.

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