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Effective Project Management
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Effective Project Management

Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme

Robert K. Wysocki and Rudd McGary
Wiley, 2006
First Edition: 1993

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Applicable

Recommendation

This is a substantial, substantive overview of project management. Students could use Robert Wysocki’s book as the text for a survey course about various professional approaches to project management. It even includes problems, chapter-by-chapter “learning objectives” and case studies. However, professionals will find solid, useful content, as well. Wysocki brings a lot to the table: voluminous information, insights from his decades of experience and clear personal judgments about the various methods he covers. getAbstract recommends this authoritative text to project management practitioners, trainees and students.

Take-Aways

  • Use “Traditional Project Management” (TPM) with clearly defined, linear projects.
  • The “Adaptive Project Framework” (APF) is good for projects that require ongoing learning and do not have an articulated endpoint.
  • Use “Extreme Project Management” to accomodate exploration and discovery.

About the Authors

Robert K. Wysocki, Ph.D., has been a project management consultant and trainer for more than 40 years.

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