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My Life Is Failure: 100 Things You Should Know to Be a Better Project Leader
by Jim Johnson
from Standish Group International
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List Price: $99.00
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Excellent project pointers 
This book offers very helpful advice on project management. The author is the founder and chairman of the Standish Group. This organization publishes the oft-quoted statistics on the rate of software project failures. (The percent of failures is very high.) The book offers pointers in 10 categories. I frequently refer to the book to check whether I am managing a project properly. This is not a how-to-guide. It does not tell you how to build a project plan or track a budget. But the advice is excellent.... more info
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Generic, repetitive and overpriced 
This project management book is structured as a group of ten lessons, intended to provide an overview of project management stumbling blocks, and enable the user to increase the likelihood of project success. However, the subpoints ultimately become repetitive or seem to be stretching the concept. The most valuable part of the book is the conclusion, which offers an overview of the lessons but also includes the author's "5 deadly sins" and "7 dwarfs" (sic) (or success factors) for project management.... more info
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