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The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Project Management Course (McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course)
by Helen Cooke, Karen Tate
from McGraw-Hill
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Solid project management text
Unlike many books on project management, which tend to be sand-dune dry, this textbook for McGraw-Hill's 36-hour project management course has interesting narrative elements. The focus is on project management skills, but you also will learn about fascinating historic projects and obstacles their builders encountered. However, this book would have benefited from more disciplined editorial direction. For example, some of the closing chapters would probably help the reader more if they were presented earlier.... more info
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fascinating stuff, I guess.
Unless you know everything, you're bound to learn something from this book!
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Theory wrapped in reality
This is a very good book for those with some experience in project work. It is not entry level material, mainly because it makes important points with examples and without examples: only those who have some experience will have a "hook" to latch onto in order to relate to the latter. When examples are given they are succinct and easy to relate to.
The end of chapter tests reinforce the topics covered very well. There are times when an experienced project manager who is doing some "brushing up" with... more info
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From concept to profession 
For decades I have be managing projects in IS and IT. Now I find my self a project manager that has in-depth knowledge of it. Where and when did this metamorphosis come about? Where will all this lead to? Once a skill used by many professions Project Management has become a profession in its self.
This book takes you're from concept thought history and delivers you to practical management. As with all 36-Hour courses it takes more than 36 hours and you will want to go back and revisit the book after... more info
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