Manage It! New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
6/4/2007

Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

You've been bombarded with a ton of techniques, practices, and unsolicited
pieces of advice about how to manage projects. All of them are saying
"Look at me, I'm right."

Well, many of them are right—but only under certain conditions. Your
project is unique, and you need to make pragmatic choices about what will
work and what won't.

In "Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management"
(Pragmatic Bookshelf, US$34.95, 0-9787392-4-8), author Johanna Rothman
delivers a risk-based guide to making good decisions about how to plan and
guide your projects. This book will help software project managers, team
members, and software managers succeed. From chartering to release, each
chapter discusses ways you can see inside your software project, measure
it, feel it, taste it, and smell it.

Johanna says, "One thing you won't find in this book is the One True Way
to manage projects. There is no One True Way that works for all projects.
You also won't find best practices. I'll suggest helpful practices for
each life cycle that might help you and the project team achieve your
goals."

"Manage It!" will show you how to beg, borrow, and steal from the best
methodologies to fit your particular project. It will help you find what
works best for you. Before you know it, your project will be on track and
headed to a successful conclusion.

In this book you'll:

    * Learn all about different project lifecycles
    * See how to organize a project
    * Compare sample project dashboards
    * See how to staff a project
    * Know when you're done—and what that means.

"Manage It!" shows you how to directly address the most pressing problems
of modern software project development.

"Johanna packs a wealth of practical advice into this book. Even the most
experienced project managers will find numerous nuggets and gems that they
can immediately apply to their project work."
-James A. Ward, Senior Project Management Consultant, James A. Ward and
Associates, Inc.

"This book is a pleasure to read and is packed with wisdom. Junior project
managers will get a great introduction, while senior project managers will
learn some new tricks."
-George Hawthorne, Project Manager, Oblomov Consulting

Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
by Johanna Rothman

ISBN 0-9787392-4-8, 360 pages, $34.95US, $45.95CA, softcover.

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Sample chapters, table of contents, and more information is available on
the book's home page:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0978739248/index.html

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