April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 4m
English
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.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.
How to use this book
I wrote this book with consideration for people who like to skip around and read chapters individually. However, there is some benefit to reading it straight through; some of the later concepts build on earlier ones, and the book does roughly follow the chronological order of most projects. Of course, you'd never know this unless you read it straight through, so if you choose to skip around, you'll have to trust me on this one.
The first chapter is the broadest in the book and has a deeper tone than the rest. If you're curious about why you should care about project management, or what other important people have said about it, then you should definitely give it a shot. If you try it and hate it, I definitely recommend giving another chapter a try before abandoning ship.
All of the references and URLs listed in the book, as well as additional notes and commentary, are online at www.scottberkun.com/books/artofpm/. The web site has a discussion forum and other resources for those of you who are interested in going beyond the topics in this book.
And now, because you were smart and patient enough to read this entire introduction, I'll assume you're up to speed on the other mechanics of book reading (page numbers, footnotes, and all that) and just get out of your way.
Cheers,
Scott Berkun
Redmond, WA
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