books

\’How big things get done\’ by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is an interesting new book intending to explain to the general public the challenges of projects in general, and large projects in particular. It draws of course on the extensive academic body of work of Bent Flyvbjerg (professor at Oxford and quite invested in […]

We are proud to announce the publishing of the 2nd edition of our reference handbook on project scheduling for project managers. It has been written by Jeremie Averous with the help from Thierry Linares and Farhang Pakzad for certain chapters. This updated, must-have practical handbook for Large, Complex Projects originated in the trenches of actual

We found this book \’Project & Program Turnaround\’ quite insightful and worth sharing – although we are quite choosy on the books we review on this blog. The author, Thomas Pavelko, is a former program manager with a large aeronautical company and therefore, the book is somewhat tainted by the context of large defense and

We are very pleased to announce the publication of our new book, which we certainly expect to be a future standard reference book in the area of project management: our Industrial Projects Practical Owner Guide. Based on our consulting experience, we have found that many owners struggle to set up the right approach to properly

We are proud to announce the publication of the Second Edition of our recommended Cost Control handbook. It has been regularly praised as an excellent reference for project control practitioners and more than 2,000 copies of the first edition have been sold worldwide since the first edition was produced in 2014. We have also produced

We are proud to have our new Practical Project Control Manager Handbook published – after our trilogy on Cost, Project Risk and Scheduling. Understand how to become a Project Strategist! “In this book, you are taken through a pragmatic practitioner’s journey of how to establish and run Project Control to give reliable management information enabling timely management intervention. The

We are proud to have our third Project Control Handbook published – after Cost and Risk, this time our Advanced Project Scheduling Handbook. Know How to Navigate in Large, Complex Projects! This must-have practical handbook for Large, Complex Projects originated in the trenches of actual Project execution. It differs markedly from most handbooks on Project scheduling