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The Data-Driven Project Manager: A Statistical Battle Against Project Obstacles
Discover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers. Written as a business novel, the book is highly interactive, allowing readers to participate and consider options at each stage of a project. The book is based on years of experience, both through the author's research projects as well as his teaching lectures at business schools.
The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues who are in charge of the management of a new tennis stadium project. The CEO of the company, Jacob Mitchell, is planning to install a new data-driven project management methodology as a decision support tool for all upcoming projects. He challenges Emily and her team to start a journey in exploring project data to fight against unexpected project obstacles.
Data-driven project management is known in the academic literature as “dynamic scheduling” or “integrated project management and control.” It is a project management methodology to plan, monitor, and control projects in progress in order to deliver them on time and within budget to the client. Its main focus is on the integration of three crucial aspects, as
What You'll Learn Who This Book Is For
Project managers looking to learn data-driven project management (or "dynamic scheduling") via a novel, demonstrating real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles
The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues who are in charge of the management of a new tennis stadium project. The CEO of the company, Jacob Mitchell, is planning to install a new data-driven project management methodology as a decision support tool for all upcoming projects. He challenges Emily and her team to start a journey in exploring project data to fight against unexpected project obstacles.
Data-driven project management is known in the academic literature as “dynamic scheduling” or “integrated project management and control.” It is a project management methodology to plan, monitor, and control projects in progress in order to deliver them on time and within budget to the client. Its main focus is on the integration of three crucial aspects, as
What You'll Learn Who This Book Is For
Project managers looking to learn data-driven project management (or "dynamic scheduling") via a novel, demonstrating real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles
171 pages, Paperback
Published April 5, 2018
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August 22, 2018
This is not a novel at all.
I really hoped I could write a glaring review, stating how this book belongs in the list of The Goal and The Phoenix Project.
Unfortunately, this is really a not-so-accessible book packed with theory and academic insights. An example of the overly complex sentences:
“Emily enthusiastically started her explanation of PERT by saying that statistical methods could be used to describe the extent of variability in the activity-duration estimates and to model the degree of uncertainty inherent to projects.”
This is a sentence that I expect to find in a research paper, known to be a dense format. In a novel-style book, this just doesn’t belong.
There is also no story, no big hairy problem to tackle and no character development.
If you are looking for an overview of all the important (non-it) project management pieces, you’ll definitively find them in this book. There is an overview in the end, referring to all the relevant studies and books, combined with a very extensive index.
If you’re looking for an easy read that will show you how things work by applying it to the main story of the protagonist, this is not your book. Go and read The Goal or The Phoenix project.
I really hoped I could write a glaring review, stating how this book belongs in the list of The Goal and The Phoenix Project.
Unfortunately, this is really a not-so-accessible book packed with theory and academic insights. An example of the overly complex sentences:
“Emily enthusiastically started her explanation of PERT by saying that statistical methods could be used to describe the extent of variability in the activity-duration estimates and to model the degree of uncertainty inherent to projects.”
This is a sentence that I expect to find in a research paper, known to be a dense format. In a novel-style book, this just doesn’t belong.
There is also no story, no big hairy problem to tackle and no character development.
If you are looking for an overview of all the important (non-it) project management pieces, you’ll definitively find them in this book. There is an overview in the end, referring to all the relevant studies and books, combined with a very extensive index.
If you’re looking for an easy read that will show you how things work by applying it to the main story of the protagonist, this is not your book. Go and read The Goal or The Phoenix project.
May 27, 2018
Taking after Goldratt in its novel-style approach this book condenses decades of research in a form that is easy to digest. This makes it very easy to see how one might adopt these practices in his/her day-to-day situation.
I can do nothing but recommend this to anyone with even the remotest interest in becoming better at managing projects! (and who doesn't need to become better at that?)
I can do nothing but recommend this to anyone with even the remotest interest in becoming better at managing projects! (and who doesn't need to become better at that?)
May 18, 2018
Great, interesting book !
January 11, 2022
I would give this book 5 stars if there was a chapter on applying all these statistics concepts on Agile projects.
June 13, 2021
This book is a step above a text book, but not much more. If you’re looking to snag some technical PDU’s to support your PMP certification this is a good book for that. The author hits pretty hard on EVM principles and applications.
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