News from Authors & Publications- October 2006
- Amazon.com Offers Discounts on Project Management Textbooks
- Wideman PM Website Updates Announced for September
Amazon.com Offers Discounts on Project Management Textbooks
Amazon.com has announced a back-to-school textbook sale in the USA, indicating discounts on both new and used textbooks when purchased online. This program can provide steep discounts on purchases of new and used project management textbooks for undergraduate and graduate level PM courses taught worldwide.
According to Amazon:
- From now through October 7th, customers can save up to 20% off campus bookstore prices on new textbooks sold by Amazon.com
- In addition, customers can also save an extra $15 when they spend over $150 on new textbooks sold by Amazon.com
- Through our extensive network of third party sellers, we are able to offer customers millions of used textbooks at up to 90% off list prices.
PM textbooks by Cleland, Frame, Kerzner, Wideman and others can be purchased at a discount. A link to Amazon’s textbook website can be found on the www.pmforum.org home page.
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Wideman PM Website Updates Announced for October
Max Wideman has announced the September updates to his popular project management website, as follows:
Cornelius Fichtner's Project Management Podcast, his 50th episode celebrating his one year-old podcast anniversary featured an interview with Max Wideman. As Cornelius said to his worldwide audience, "The Project Management Podcast first recommended Mr. Wideman's website www.maxwideman.com back in episode 7 as one of the leading project management reference websites today."
On the anniversary podcast, Max discussed the topic of "Project management basics typically overlooked", which can be heard at
http://media.libsyn.com/media/pmpodcast/PM_Podcast_2006_09_23_-_PM_Basics.mp3.
This month in "Papers" Max reviews Harvey Levine's latest book: Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios and Maximizing Benefits.
Max's Guest this month is Walter Wawruck, who reports on Part 1 of his ground-breaking research into Managing Project Scope - A Neglected Dimension of Effective Performance on Diverse Projects. Although conducted some years ago, this is just as relevant today in this less-than-well-understood subject area.
Max's Musings takes a local tongue-in-cheek look at the question Is Sustainable Development an Oxymoron?
Max has added seven important Issacons this month, as follows:
- 1004c6 Project Portfolio Management Benefits Assessment;
- 1008 Project Metrics;
- 1057d Project Management: Model Guideline #23 - Part D (Post-Project Deliverable Review);
- 1102a Institutionalized Project Risk Management - Part A (How do we institutionalize Project Risk Management at an organizational level?);
- 1102b Part B (How do we manage Project Risk Management at an organizational level?);
- 1208a Business Case Strategy (What should we consider at a high level before developing a Business Case in detail?); and
- 1208b Business Case Content has been updated.
Max Wideman is one of the world's best-known project management authorities. An engineer and professional project manager, his experience includes systems, social and environmental projects, as well as design and engineering projects. He is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute, of which he is past president and chairman, and for whom he developed the 1987 version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. His personal web site at http://www.maxwideman.com. is a source of superior project management knowledge and information. It is free to the public.
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