Best Project Management Books

The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love"The Lean Product Playbook" is a practical guide to building products that customers love.

The bestselling guide to Toyota's legendary philosophy and production systemupdated with important new frameworks for driving innovation and quality in your businessOne of the most impactful business guides published in the 21st Century, The Toyota Way played an outsized role in…

See how to mine the experience of your software development team continually throughout the life of the project. The tools and recipes in this book will help you uncover and solve hidden (and notsohidden) problems with your Technology,, your methodology, and those difficult…

Debunking misconceptions surrounding successful project managers, this source builds upon a landmark survey of more than 800 project managers from around the world to highlight the traits that make them stand out in the minds of their teams, senior managers, customers, and…

Updating the tools, principles, and methods presented in the bestselling first edition, this updated edition explains how to implement the authors' proven improvement methodology that unifies the Theory of Constraints with Lean and Six Sigma.

THE #1 GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS, NOW UPDATED FOR THE LATEST TRENDS AND EMERGING ISSUESProject Management, or the "Project Management bible" as it's widely known, provides practical guidance on all aspects of project management.

Describes the reasons why companies spawn Death Marches and provides you with guidance to identify and survive death march projects. This work covers the project lifecycle, addressing every key issue participants face: politics, people, process, project management, and tools.

"Mantle and Lichty have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level.

Project management it's not just about following a template or using a tool, but rather developing personal skills and intuition to find a method that works for everyone.

When Fortune Magazine estimated that 70% of all strategies fail, it also noted that most of these strategies were basically sound, but could not be executed.

A guide for modern organisations about optimising productivity, creating a culture of innovation, and building highperforming teamsIt's time to stop managing and start implementing.

Reading feels like working through a dense standards manual: chapters mix precise definitions, process maps, outputs and checklists rather than narrative or case-driven storytelling. Main value is a tidy, cross-referenced reference for process names, inputs/outputs, and where agile practices are acknowledged alongside predictive methods. Main limitation is a formal, prescriptive tone that can feel repetitive and dry; practical examples are thin and the language assumes familiarity with project jargon, so beginners may need supplementary, example-rich sources.

This is a straightforward, nontechnical primer for applying Agile to projects beyond software, with examples on roadmaps, sprint planning, and launch checklists. Chapters are short and example-driven, offering sample schedules and roles you can adapt quickly. The tone stays introductory, so expect simplified treatments rather than deep performance analysis or enterprise scaling detail. Best used as a desk reference to start Agile rituals and align stakeholders; it can frustrate readers who want heavy data or exhaustive implementation playbooks.

Best practices for managing projects in agile environmentsnow updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers.

Whether you are organising an important event or heading up a large team, running a project can be a daunting process. Spiralling costs and missed deadlines are part of everyday life for many project managers in fact, more projects fail than succeed!But project management…

From mild disagreements to major personnel blowouts, conflict in the workplace is unavoidable. Drawing lightheartedly from stories of her own slipups and disagreements as well as examples from her twenty years of experience as a conflict resolution professional, author Susan…

How to make better decisions and achieve your goals What shapes a person's career and life, and defines them as a leader Their decisions. We all want to be more productive and deliver our best results.

An informative introduction for those considering a career in project managementProject Management JumpStart offers a clear, practical introduction to the complex world of project management, with an entertaining approach based on realworld application.

The ability to relentlessly identify and mitigate risk.That is the key to highperformance project teams.Successful projects depend more on your team's behavior than on their project tools.This book focuses on the fundamentals: simple structures and practices, applied with rigor.

The allinclusive guide to exceptional project managementThe Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is the comprehensive guide to realworld project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easytouse, and deeply thorough, this book gives you answers you need now.

When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggledoubtful about the new approach and uncertain about their new roles and responsibilities.

All projects are inherently risky, and especially complex ones can potentially be the downfall for even the most experienced project manager.

Succeed as a project manager, even if you've never run a project before! This book is the fastest way to master every project management task, from upfront budgeting and scheduling through execution, managing teams through closing projects, and learning from experience.

The bestselling 'bible' of project management In today's timecrunched, costconscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm.

As a seasoned project management consultant and instructor for the American Management Association, author Jack Ferraro has gained years of experience bridging the gap between project managers and functional managers to help countless teams improve their performance.

Get your projects done without having a Master's Degree in Project ManagementThere is no shortage of books on project management, yet most of those guides are weighed down with tiresome project managementspeak and heavy process.

This book is designed to help project managers with a traditional, plandriven project management background understand the challenges of implementing agile and to develop a more adaptive project management approach.Content is organized into 5 sections: fundamental of agile,…

The Lazy Project Manager has been the project management book to own in the last six years and now this new edition brings the art of lazy productivity bang up to date.

The concept of agile working has been adopted by many organizations that recognize the need to respond quickly and easily to new opportunities in a world of complex and continuous change.Agile Change Management offers best practice advice for planning and implementing change…

Many people struggle to lead a project with a successful outcome and they fail to keep them to budget, deliver on time and motivate a team.

Every employee is different, but unfortunately many leaders use a onesizefitsall approach to leading. In doing so, these otherwise wellintentioned leaders are working harder than they should while not getting all they could out of their teams.Lead Inside the Box gives leaders a…

THE #1 PROJECT MANAGEMENT CASE STUDIES BOOK NOW FEATURING NEW CASES FROM DISNEY, THE OLYMPICS, AIRBUS, BOEING, AND MORE After onthejob experience, case studies are the most important part of every project manager's training.

A gamechanging approach to managementToo often discussions of management practice focus exclusively on managing people and organizational issues. Rarely, however, do they incorporate a discussion about Technology, or address all three dimensions in a balanced way.

Even in a wellmanaged multiproject environment, it is not unusual to see half of all projects completed either late, over budget or with cuts to original scope.

Take These Six Steps to Reach Your Project Management and Leadership Goals! Starting with an insightful selfassessment, The Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential offers tools, questions, reviews, guiding practices, and exercises that will…

I have presented to, worked with, and trained hundreds of project managers across the world and I always advocate putting the right level of fun into the project work.

Lyssa Adkins writes in a candid, workshop-like voice aimed at helping ScrumMasters, project managers, and leaders move from telling teams what to do toward coaching them to improve. What works best is scenario-rich, conversational advice on conversations, facilitation moves, and coaching stance you can replicate in meetings. The main limitation is tone and form: it leans on stories and coaching philosophy rather than checklists, rigid templates, or heavy empirical citation, so readers wanting a plug-and-play manual will be frustrated.

How many pizzas are delivered in Manhattan How do you design an alarm clock for the blind What is your favorite piece of software and why How would you launch a video rental service in India This book will teach you how to answer these questions and more.

What will you learn from this bookHead First PMP teaches you the latest principles and certification objectives in The PMBOK(R) Guide in a unique and inspiring way.

Se você já foi surpreendido por quão rápido o mundo está mudando, Scrum é uma das razões. Para aqueles que acreditam que deve haver uma maneira mais eficiente de se fazer as coisas, este é um livro sobre o processo de gestão que está mudando a maneira como vivemos.

A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process The SingleSource, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete,…

On the Edge is an engaging leadership manual that provides concrete insights garnered from various extreme environments ranging from Mt Everest to the South Pole.

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years.

Mike Knight, an executive in a semiconductor firm, learns that his eightyearold son Tim has a rare form of brain cancer. Tim's best hope for longterm survival is a drug called Supragrel.

The bestselling introduction to the field, updated and expandedConstruction Management Jumpstart is the definitive introduction to the field, providing a detailed walkthrough of each stage of a project from the construction manager's perspective.

The digital world is growing and changing at a rate that can seem overwhelming to those project managers who have to keep up with it to build customerfacing solutions and applications.

Finding Allies, Building Alliances reads like a pragmatic guide from a longtime public servant: brisk, anecdote-rich chapters that point to how business leaders and regulators can work together on shared problems. The most useful material is the chapter-level advice on mapping stakeholders, crafting concessions, and sequencing talks so projects become politically viable. The main limitation is a steady reliance on vignettes rather than checklists or hard metrics, so readers expecting hands-on templates or rigorous comparisons may find it lightweight.

So, you ve been asked to manage a project. Not sure where to start Start here.This is your ultimate onestop, easygoing and very friendly guide to delivering any project of any size.Even if you re a first time, neverdoneitbefore, newbie project manager, How to Manage a Great…

In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on fieldtested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects.

Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition.

Turnaround specialist Todd Williams has worked with dozens of companies in multiple industries to help them bring projects back from the brink of disaster.

Are you frustrated or disenchanted by the results of your Agile approachDoes Agile sound like a good idea, but you're not sure how to explain it beyond roles, practices, and meetingsIs your team going through the motions, but it's still business as usualThe missing piece is the…

With a new chapter on Scrum agile, updates throughout, and many additional PMP test tips, this new edition builds on the solid foundation of the first edition.

What You Need to Know About Project Management Project Management is all about getting things done without spending too much or taking too long.