Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success

For a Deeper Look. . .

• Kimberly Wiefling, Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces, Second Edition, Happy About, 2007

  The theme of Wiefling’s book is taking advantage of lessons learned. She documents common project pitfalls that most every development project can expect to encounter in one form or another. She then presents ways to address each, mitigating their adverse impacts on project performance.

• Thomas Crowles, Criteria for Lessons Learned, Abstract #1169, Raytheon, 2004

  This is not a book but a slide presentation available from Raytheon. In its compact form, it presents a very good introduction to the structure and use of a lessons learned program. It provides guidance on how to design the ...