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The AMA Handbook of Project Management
List Price: $79.95
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Paul C. Dinsmore and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, editors

©2006, hardback, 512pp., AMACOM

This comprehensive reference presents the critical concepts that all project managers must master.The book provides valuable insight on how to establish project goals, implement strategic and operational planning, design dependable organizational structures, manage the project life cycle, budget the project, and handle the transition from project idea to project reality.
The Superior Project Organization: Global Competency Standards and Best Practices
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Frank Toney

©2002, hardcover, 351pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices

The Superior Project Organization describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project organizations based on research conducted by the Project Management Benchmarking Forum, detailing the results of seven years of benchmarking and investigation of the bottom line value of project organizations in large functional enterprises.
The Superior Project Manager: Global Competency Standards and Best Practices
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Frank Toney

©2002, hardcover, 314pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices

The Superior Project Manager describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project managers based on research conducted by the Project Management Benchmarking Forum, emphasizing the selection process, performance evaluation, and personnel development to provide the key elements for adjusting and adapting to flexible conditions, and highlighting enhancements in professional image, job performance, and personal earnings.
Managing Multiple Projects: Planning, Scheduling, and Allocating Resources for Competitive Advantage
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James S. Pennypacker and Lowell D. Dye, editors


© 2002, hardback, 323pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices


In Managing Multiple Projects you'll discover insights into how successful businesses manage their projects within their portfolio—how they set up multiproject management processes, what technologies are effective, and how they allocate their resources across various projects. 
The Strategic Project Office: A Guide to Improving Organizational Performance
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J. Kent Crawford

©2002, hardcover, 367pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices

The Strategic Project Office describes the initiation, design, execution, and control of a strategic project office, emphasizing cost management, cultural change, risk assessment, resource allocation, and skills tracking to increase project value, organizational efficiency, and productivity.
Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office
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J. Kent Crawford and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin


© 2006, hardback, 424pp., Auerbach Publications/Center for Business Practices


Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office explores the SPO's potential to transform an enterprise by making the most of people within an organization. This volume provides an exhaustive review of topics such as the hiring, retention, measurement, training, and professional development of knowledge workers in project management. 
Project Management Maturity Model: Second Edition
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J. Kent Crawford


© 2007, hardback, 235pp., Auerbach Publications/Center for Business Practices


Project Management Maturity Model, Second Edition is a roadmap showing an organization how to systematically move to higher levels of performance by improving project success. It's a comprehensive tool for enhancing your project management practices and processes, covering areas critical to organizational improvement such as the project office, management oversight and professional development. 
Work It Out: Clues for Solving People Problems at Work
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Sandra Krebs Hirsh, with Jane A. G. Kise

©1996, paperback, 280pp. Davies-Black Publishing

You can't get a word in edgewise in meetings. Your boss keeps changing the plan. Your team spends more time feuding than working. What gives? This book uses information on personality types to help you decode behaviors and fit solutions to the personalities involved. Valuable for any manager of groups or teams, where productivity is impacted by the mix of individual work styles. Sample chapter titles: "Teaming with Type," "The Case of the Communication Conundrum," "Clues to Strength, Clues to Growth."
Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects
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Neal Whitten

© 2004, paperback, 280pp., Management Concepts

Learn the best practices that make the difference between troubled projects and consistently successful projects. "Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects" is like having a mentor to guide you at every turn in the road. Neal distills his 30 years of experience into tips and strategies that are easy to learn and apply to your projects.
The Juggler's Guide to Managing Multiple Projects
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Michael S. Dobson

©1999, paperback, 144pp. Project Management Institute

Calmly and efficiently managing several projects successfully at the same time is a learned skill, valuable not only for project managers, but also for anyone responsible for the successful outcome of multiple projects, whether it is at the office or in the home. This book provides a significant step in learning that skill, featuring examples of business-tested forms, charts, logs, tables, and worksheets—everything project managers need to crash, level, analyze, plan, and control tasks.