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  • Of all the resources utilized during a project, the team working on the project is the most complex to manage. When motivated, your project team can take up Herculean tasks and not break a sweat but when things go wrong there is little saving the ship unless you find a way to change course in [...]

Bas de Baar's Project Management Book


The must-have handbook for "accidental Project Managers" - those who have project management roles suddenly thrust upon them.

"Bas de Baar's book rises above the sea of IT projects. In his approach he teaches us to adopt a different mind set and focus on the people rather than on the tools. And with IT projects always being so tool centric, this is a valid lesson for any new software development project manager."
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COMMENTS

  • Gustavo: Very interesting, thanks for the lesson!
  • Ryan Endres: Great post! Yes rhythm is very important to keep our project teams focused on the project.
  • Mark Stringer: Great post Alex, and it really got me thinking. I don’t know if you know about the work of Mark...
  • betsy: need ur help
  • Diwant Vaidya: Oops, I meant Google Talk. I’ll take a second look though.

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