August 2009
Beginner
252 pages
6h 2m
English
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Acknowledgments
The idea for 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know was not conceived in a vacuum. There are many people who deserve credit for the concept and its execution.
I would like to thank the series editor, Richard Monson-Haefel, whom I met while helping to administrate the No Fluff Just Stuff symposiums for Jay Zimmerman. After finding out about my focus on project management and software development, he suggested I write a book for his "97 Things" series called 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know as a companion piece for his own book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know.
A public wiki was created on the O'Reilly Media website, so that everyone around the world who wished to participate could be involved. I'm deeply grateful to those who chose to donate their time and contribute tips to this book.
O'Reilly deserves credit for listening to this idea with open ears, and backing what is more or less an untested method of creating a book. O'Reilly also merits praise for agreeing that all content will be open source (Creative Commons, Attribution 3). The people at O'Reilly I would specifically like to thank include Mike Loukides, Rachel Monaghan, Ed Stephenson, and Laurel Ackerman. Without your help and guidance, this project would not have been possible.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.