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Communications Skills for Project Managers
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Communications Skills for Project Managers

Michael Campbell
AMACOM, 2009

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Editorial Rating

6

Recommendation

If you work in a large, complex organization that routinely handles expensive interdepartmental projects, this book is for you. Michael Campbell presents the basics of communications theory with techniques that can improve the interplay among project team members and their stakeholders. Unfortunately, Campbell built the book around a long, detailed case study threaded through the narrative. The hypothetical tale is a noble attempt to personalize methodical project management guidance, but as readers follow the people and job titles in the account, it tends to bog down in jargon, predictability and plodding detail. Indeed, without the case study, the book would still be useful and far more concise. getAbstract recommends this text to serious students of project management’s intricate details and to novice project managers, who will learn necessary strategic lessons about communicating during a complicated, ongoing project.

Take-Aways

  • Project failure generally relates in some way to poor communications.
  • Every project has many variables, but only three goals: to create something, to stay within the budget and to finish on time.
  • A project’s authorizing charter defines its funding, duties, scope, assumptions, risks, benefits and schedule.

About the Author

Michael Campbell is the president of the Energy Practice at MCA International. He is the author of Bulletproof Presentations and co-author of the fourth edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Project Management.

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