Review of Powerful Project Leadership (Paperback)

Wayne Strider's book provides words for and recognizable characteristics of many common project problems.Powerful Project Leadership gives project managers of every experience level tools and road signs that enable them to recognize and address looming project issues before they become major events.

Communications and leadership challenges are explained in common language for easy recognition.

The book is an excellent read.I recognized a few pending issues with one of my projects on my first pass through the book.

I believe that this book is a "MUST HAVE" for any well-stocked project management library.

Product Description
Have you ever worked on a project that ran into serious snags? Or a project that was canceled after significant time and expense? Or one that delivered an acceptable result, yet the people involved would have rather jumped off a cliff than work together again?

How many of these situations were caused, at least in part, by people problems? In Powerful Project Leadership you'll find innovative approaches to working with people that enable everyone (including you!) to do their best project work. This book will help you acquire a new toolkit for project success. You will find yourself drawing from it often!

Powerful Project Leadership provides:
* An interactive approach - exercises guide the reader in becoming a powerful project leader.
* Real-life examples that show the reader how to develop and exercise powerful leadership skills
* An effective approach for project managers in identifying and addressing the root causes of problems faced during most work on projects
* A solid integration of hard and soft skills

Use Powerful Project Leadership as a resource to:
* Learn how to pay attention to early signs that something is going wrong on your project
* Develop practical approaches to stubborn, intractable, and utterly predictable problems on projects
* Improve the vital flow of information by addressing human problems and misunderstandings
* Encourage change at a deep level - within the individual, on the project, and within the organization

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Review of Leading Culture Change in Your Software Organization: Delivering Results Early [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

If you're involved in any aspect of software implementations, and you desire to improve your product delivery for your user community, then this book is a must have.It offers practical approaches along with useful examples.

What I particularly like is the incremental approach using the five best practices in Chapter 2.The big-bang hammer approaches, which I have lived through and can, relate to in Chapter 4, just don't work!

I have used the author's best practices for my last three projects and the results were very successful: Project 1 - no major bugs found during end user acceptance testing, implemented three days early; Project 2 - implemented on-time with a satisfied user community; Project 3 - again, no showstopper issues during user acceptance resulting in a product that was delivered as expected by the user community.The suggested best practices do in fact work.

This book is my guide and reference for managing software implementations.I highly recommend it!

Product Description
The Effective Way to Produce Improvements for Project Management and Software Engineering!Leading Culture Change in Your Software Organization: Delivering Results Early is the first industry-specific guide to managing change. You ll find today s best strategies for quick wins and long-term gains when managing Software Process Improvement (SPI) and culture change. You ll:Learn how to deliver successful outcomes, using a targeted set of recommended actions, effective leadership, and social and psychological drivers Get first-hand knowledge from organizations that have successfully transformed the work habits and practices of their software professionals Discover techniques that you can apply immediately to maximize project success regardless of your organization s infrastructure or level of technical sophistication.

About the Author
Rita Chao Hadden specializes in software best practices, process improvement, and corporate culture change. She has been a software practitioner, project manager, software engineering process group (SEPG) leader, change agent, Software Engineering Institute authorized lead assessor, software director, and executive. She has provided leadership, coordination, and coaching for more than 75 complex software projects in the private and public sectors. She is currently Director of Software Development at Datatel, Inc., a market leader in Enterprise Resource Planning for higher education.

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