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Project Planning, Scheduling & Control, 4E
by James P. Lewis
from McGraw-Hill
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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Replete with expertise and insights gleaned from experience.
I read this book to augment my graduate-level Project Management course. I knew of the author's reputation as an instructor and a pioneer. The book lived up to my expectations.
Mr. Lewis covered the major aspects of managing a project very concisely and expertly. Here for example are the four reasons he gave for consensually estimating a task's duration:
1. No one person is "on the hook" for the estimate. If it turns out to be significantly off, no individual will get chastised for it.
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Great Book for top line overview of PM
Very well written book on Project Management. Easy to follow and well illustrated. The author also provides practical insight in to "how PM really works".
The book covers the entire PM process. I bought the book to learn more about scheduling and as it turns out scheduling is not the main focus of the book. Still a worthwhile read
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Good overview 
The author does a good job of discussing the basic material in PM, in addition to spicing up the content with real-world examples and a nice, honest tone in monologue. A good addition to any PM's library.
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When you really want to know how to manage a project.
When you look at the goals of this book they are things like develop a methodology that works, using common tools like PERT, CPM, setting up communications within the team; in essence the real things that make a project successful. This also means that you learn enough that if you want to take the PMP test, you have the background and understanding to pass it.
This is the fourth edition of a book initially published in 1991. As the author says, it is written for the practitioner rather than the... more info
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