This book helps uses the Meyers-Briggs Personality Type to
discover the career that is right for you.
Team Dynamics
The Art of Speedreading People : How to Size People
Up and Speak Their Language by Paul Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger and Marly A. Swick
This book uses the Meyers-Briggs Personality Type to show the most effective way to communicate
with people of various personality types. It's a must read if you want to become an effective project
manager.
The Magic of Conflict by Thomas Crum
This book teaches how to apply the principle of Akido in social situations.
Gives very useful techniques on communicating through conflict so both parties can use the conflict as a
growth and learning experience. One read that will change the way you move through the world.
The Team Handbook by Peter R. Scholtes,
Brian L. Joiner, Barbara J. Streibel
A solid resource for project managers using cross functional teams. Provides information
resource for planning and implementing effective meetings, and ensuring excellent team dynamics.
Scope Management
Customer-Centered
Products Creating Successful Products through Smart Requirements Management
by Ivy F. Hooks and Kristin A. Farry
This book provides a clear process for how to collect the right requirements
from the start of the project and how to manage the ever evolving requirements
so the project stays on track.
Are
Your Lights On? How to Figure Out What the Problem REALLY Is by Donald C.
Cause and Gerald M. Weinberg.
All projects are ultimately done to solve some problems. If you don't get
the problem correct, you have less of a chance of creating the correct solution.
This book is the precursor to creating good requirements - understanding the
problem you need to solve comes first.
Exploring
Requirements Quality Before Design by Donald C. Cause and Gerald M.
Weinberg.
This book is a more technical orientation that the Are Your Lights On? by the
same authors. It provides detailed processes on how to effectively develop
requirements based on solid problem solving techniques.
Scheduling
Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
Critical Path Method is stressed as the key tool to examining and exposing the problems that
will be encountered. The book describes the management attitude and method changes that should
be adopted to improve the overall effectiveness of a project team, and by extension, the whole
organization.
Analysis Bar Charting by John Mulvaney
This is an easy to read book with a simplified approach to the critical
path method, using a precedence network diagramming method.
Communication
Conversationally Speaking : Tested New Ways to Increase Your
Personal and Social Effectiveness by Alan Garner
Even if you're a great conversationalist, this book can make you better. It doesn't just teach
you how to talk, the biggest value may be in that it teaches you how to listen so other's will talk - it
enables true dialog rather than two people having a monologue.
Talking the Winner's Way
by Leil Lowndes
We liked this book so much we hired Leil to
teach our staff how to communicate with our customers. We are known
in the industry for our outstanding customer service - and we want to stay that
way as we grow very fast. So we figured we had better
institutionalize the communication techniques that helped us become number one.
Cheetah Negotiations - How to Get What you
Want, FAST - by Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, and Linda Lansky, PMP.
Get what you want, FAST! Become a Cheetah
Negotiator. Project Managers spend their days in
continual negotiations - project team members, project sponsors, project
customers, and suppliers. You will learn how you can get what you not only
want, but truly deserve with this step by step method for setting up and
conducting successful negotiations focused on mutual gain.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher,
William Ury, Bruce Patton
This is one of the text books we recommend in the
Cheetah Project Manager Negotiations class. This book covers negotiations
that are in fact much tougher than what most project managers encounter on a day
to day basis, but you will learn the fundamentals of how to create win-win
relationships.
