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  • Making Things Happen

  • Mastering Project Management
  • By: Scott Berkun
  • Narrated by: Ryan Burke
  • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)

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Making Things Happen

By: Scott Berkun
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Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere. Making Things Happen doesn't cite specific methods but focuses on philosophy and strategy. Unlike other project management books, Berkun offers personal essays in a comfortable style and easy tone that emulate the relationship of a wise project manager who gives good, entertaining, and passionate advice to those who ask.

Making Things Happen offers in-depth exercises to help you apply lessons from the book to your job. It is inspiring, funny, honest, and compelling and definitely the one book that you and your team need to have within arm's reach throughout the life of your project. Coming from the rare perspective of someone who fought difficult battles on Microsoft's biggest projects and taught project design and management for MSTE, Microsoft's internal best practices group, this is valuable advice indeed. It will serve you well with your current work and on future projects to come.

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The deep analysis and vivid examples.

"Making Things Happen"is an good resource for anyone serious about mastering project management. This comprehensive guide delves deep into the intricacies of the discipline, providing clear, actionable insights for both novice and experienced project managers. The book stands out for its practical advice, real-world use cases.

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Must read

Project management practices should be applied in every single industry. This book helps you to increase business results via mastering the end-to-end project management from planning to execution.

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A Great Resource for EmergingProject Management Professionals

The book covers core knowledge areas for early-career project management professionals.

Seasoned professionals may find that there is not much new information here—just good stories.

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