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Project management is a discipline unto itself, but many writers are called upon to manage writing projects. There are some books that specifically cover the management of writing projects, and there are many more for related fields (training projects, software projects) and project management in general.

Project Management Books


1.		A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides) from Project Management Institute Price: $33.02 Customer Review: Hands down, this is THE worst-written book of any kind, ever. My brain totally objects to reading sentences such as, "The project manager will have to be careful that the project manager does not make mistakes that will make it difficult for the project manager to manage the project." Think I'm... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		PMP Exam Prep, Fifth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam from RMC Publications, Inc. Price: $56.07 Customer Review: Rita's PMP Exam Prep book is all you need to pass the exam. But you need to know if backward and forwards. Highlight and scribble all over this book as you go through it. I never read the tedious PMBOK guide, but instead went straight to this book to do my studying. The test questions at the end of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction from Microsoft Press Price: $31.49 Customer Review: Code complete is the right title for this book. Sadly most people find it extremely hart to read it. Its great as a reference but reading it word for word is as interesting as watching grass grow. Don't get me wrong. This is a great book. Everyone should at least hold it for once. But do not try to... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Contemporary Management from McGraw-Hill/Irwin Price: $113.47	Click here for more information


5.		The PMP Exam: How to Pass On Your First Try (Test Prep series) from Velociteach Price: $44.79 Customer Review: I highly recommend this book. I also purchased the PMBOK, but only got about halfway through. Crowe's book broke it all down for me. I read the book once, did all of the questions in the book, and did the free trial on the Velociteach website. Additionally I borrowed Rita Mulcahy's book from a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling from Wiley Price: $68.60 Customer Review: The ninth edition of Harold Kerzner's substantial, substantive project-management guide offers the comprehensive charts, diagrams and graphs you would expect in a graduate-level textbook, and yet it is surprisingly readable and relevant. Considered by many to be the leading "project management... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With a Single Sheet of Paper from Wiley Price: $13.57 Customer Review: This is a solid book and an interesting concept. I think it would go far in my organization and would like to implement it. One question - why does a book about stripping all the info down to one page have to be 160 pages long? ;)	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) from Addison-Wesley Professional Price: $27.71 Customer Review: I have read this book twice now. Once in college and once again now 5 years later. While I did not get much out of it 5 years ago, now that I have been in the industry a few years, it is a VERY good re-read.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Project Management with MS Project CD + Student CD (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences) from McGraw-Hill/Irwin Price: $147.37	Click here for more information


10.		Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) from Microsoft Press Price: $19.79 Customer Review: Step by Step Microsoft Office Project 2007 is a complete written review of the subject, but use of the companion CD involves significant additional costs. Use of the CD requires the user to also have installed Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Project 2007, and additional speciality programs.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam (Head First) from O'Reilly Media, Inc. Price: $31.49 Customer Review: I pretty much passed the test by just working through the 600 pages of this book. It uses pictures, quizzes, crosswords and games to help you get the basic concepts and necessary formulas down. You'll go comatose if you try to tread the PMBOK itself and go blind while reading the Mulcahy prep... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) from Microsoft Press Price: $26.39 Customer Review: Nobody knows Scrum better than Ken Schwaber. This is a good read for launching new Scrum projects.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Managerial Accounting (11th Edition) from McGraw-Hill/Irwin Price: $140.60 Customer Review: Wow, Buyer beware. The DVD does NOT come with this book. The DVD promoted on Roman numeral page v as free with the book does NOT come with the book and CANNOT be obtained. the good folks at Amazon were blindsided by the publishers. The publisher blew me off like dandruff on a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management (Portable Mba Series) from Wiley Price: $14.93 Customer Review: As a very experienced project and program manager, I've been asked to help introduce MBA students to project management. Of all the PMs books out there, a number of which I own, this one is the best I've found to help understand the complexities and challenges of project management. The subject is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Project Management: A Managerial Approach from Wiley Price: $92.58 Customer Review: This book is too technical and not really practical. I was not satisfied when applying it to project management. I suggest to find search other books in project management. Not a good resource.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition) from Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated Price: $30.55 Customer Review: Much of this book is spent explaining what should be obvious to the best managers, but which corporate culture and priorities tend to work against. In general, the book looks more at typical mistakes than at recipes for success. At the same time, the advice is solid and they often provide data to... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		PM FASTrack: PMP Exam Simulation Software, Version 5.2.0 from RMC Publications Price: $299.00 Customer Review: I passed the test late 2006. This software was great. It prepared me because it is almost a duplicate of the actual test. I was extremely confortable taking the actual test since I prepared with this software. I recommend it greatly....But it is not the test questions that help you pass, its only... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Critical Chain : A Business Novel from North River Press Price: $13.57 Customer Review: Stories are one of the best ways to teach and Eliyahu Goldratt is a master story teller! In Critical Chain Goldratt weaves a tale to teach concepts to project managers on how to drive down schedule time, and reduce product cost using Theory of Constraints (TOC). It is an extension of the concepts... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Agile Software Development with SCRUM (Series in Agile Software Development) from Prentice Hall Price: $34.94 Customer Review: Little weird to review a book before actually reading it. My husband is learning English with it. I observed that it has an accessible language for those who are first exploring SCRUM.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Microsoft® Office Project 2003 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) from Microsoft Press Price: $19.79 Customer Review: This book is great. Very helpful. I am disappointed that although I "qualified" for free super saver shipping with my order, it was not applied. Feels deceptive on Amazon's part. And don't tell me that I didn't select it, this is not the first time this has happened.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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Project Management Software


1.		Microsoft Works 9.0 from Microsoft Software Price: $35.99 Customer Review: It's cheap database software that I like to use for making custom comparison charts when doing my own product research. With free OpenOffice and inexpensive Office Home and Student Edition, there's no reason to use any of the other features. It's a credit to OpenOffice that Office Home and Student... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Microsoft OneNote 2007 from Microsoft Software Price: $71.49 Customer Review: I have been searching for a solution in project management for over four years. Being a manager for a corporation, I am bombarded by emails, phone calls, documents, conversations, meeting, and employee performance discussions. Although Microsoft Office suites offer good tools to deal with these... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Microsoft Project Standard 2007 from Microsoft Software Price: $449.99 Customer Review: I previously used Microsoft Project 2003 heavily, but was dismayed to find out that the 2007 version removes the "Save as Web Page" feature that was present in the 2003 version. This feature was quite handy for a project administrator to manage a project and publish it for viewing by other... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Microsoft Visio Professional 2007 from Microsoft Software Price: $445.99 Customer Review: For building and furnishing a home, there were not enough stencils. Also had trouble inserting stencils and having them stay where they were placed.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Microsoft Project Standard 2007 Version Upgrade from Microsoft Software Price: $296.99 Customer Review: Just another iteration of a great program. The whole industry uses Project this version is no different.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Topo USA 7.0 West Edition from DeLorme Price: $39.99 Customer Review: Initially the interface was somewhat challenging, but after a few uses it became routine. Lots of very cool features and with both 2D and 3D views in a split screen, it was very helpful. I'd heard good things from other hunters regarding using this for Game Management Units (GMUs) in Colorado and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Microsoft OneNote Home and Student 2007 from Microsoft Software Price: $58.49 Customer Review: i love simply love one note. it's is a great way to organize my life, from work-related stuff to personal to-do lists. one of the best features is the screen-shot capability, which allows me to take a snap shot of my screen and paste it into one note. i love being able to convert what i type... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		SureTrak Project Manager 3.0 from Primavera Systems Price: $606.99 Customer Review: this scheduling software can do anything you need it to do. it's not simple enough to use, though, without having either studied the users manual in depth or taken a college course on the software. i have take a course on the software so it works great for me.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Topo USA 7.0 National Edition from DeLorme Price: $69.99 Customer Review: I've been a computer consultant for over 20 years and therefore I've seen a lot of software I'm unfamiliar with at first. On most systems, I can figure out how to do the basics relatively quickly. But not on this software. Let me also add that I helped design and build custom navigation systems for... more info	Customer Rating: 1.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Mindjet MindManager Pro 7 Single License from Mindjet Price: $309.99 Customer Review: I could not make it work with MS Vista premium on my Toshiba laptop. But does work with my desktop XP system. Has no interoperability with OpenOffice. Only with MS office.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Microsoft Visio Professional 2007 Version Upgrade from Microsoft Software Price: $289.99 Customer Review: I upgraded from Visio 2000 Enterprise and was dismayed to discover that the ability to generate a database from a Visio diagram has been removed. It is now only available in the Visio version through an MSDN Subscription - expensive and unreasonable for individual purchasers. Buyer beware....if you... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 from Microsoft Software Price: $229.99 Customer Review: I am supposed to use this product to update the web pages monthly for a non-profit organization. After exploring the menus and the manual, I still don't know how and where to start. I usually can figure out in a short time how to use new software however complicated, such as QuarkExpress, InDesign,... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Version Upgrade from Microsoft Software Price: $133.99	Click here for more information


14.		Macware MacFreelance from macware Price: $29.99 Customer Review: After seeing the reviews I decided to download the demo and see for myself before buying the product. I was pretty disappointed. The interface seems to try and cram as many features as possible and the result is an unintuitive mess. At the price it might be a decent piece of software that gets the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Microsoft Project Professional 2007 1 Client from Microsoft Software Price: $883.99	Click here for more information


16.		Macjournal 5.0 from Mariner Software Price: $39.99	Click here for more information


17.		SmartDraw 2007 from SmartDraw.com Customer Review: SmartDraw 2007 was not what I expected. The description of the product was not specific and this version of SmartDraw did not have all of the applications I wanted. I have sent 2 messages to the seller with no response. I am quite disappointed and would like a full refund.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Microsoft Project 98 from Microsoft Software	Click here for more information


19.	[no image]	Microsoft Visio 2000 Professional Edition from Microsoft Software	Click here for more information


20.		Microsoft Project 2003 Standard [OLD VERSION] from Microsoft Software Customer Review: Product came when promised - a little longer than I wanted, but as promised. They also upgraded the software so this was a plus.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information