Pragmatic Project Management: everything you need to know

Hi everyone.

My 7th textbook on project management has been released through Allen & Unwin - Project Management: A practical guide to planning and managing projects (4th edition), the ISBN is 978 1 76063 178 9. This edition is the updated version of the 2014 book featured in each of the videos as the 2014 edition is no longer available.

Project management isn't difficult, nor do you always need an examination or certification to prove you can do it confidently and professionally.

What you need is a mix of selective theory (not all theory is good) and time to question and apply what you learn and reflect on. Project management can sometimes be too full of theory, methodologies (frameworks), templates, checklists, formula, registers and assorted documents that might produce (in some cases) little more than excessive paperwork and frustrated stakeholders.

With over 25 years project management experience (outside the theory) and six project management textbooks (inside the theory), I know I can deconstruct project management for you in simple, plain English without undermining the knowledge and skill you need.

With a short written commentary introducing every 100+ lectures, along with my conversational presentation style and concise PowerPoint slides, the course will not just cover essential project management theory and practice, it will challenge and empower you into thinking about your operational priorities and (perhaps strategic) projects, the potential conflicts between both and the different practices and straightforward and uncomplicated documentation needed when working with projects.

And all those documents can actually be a single document created when the project starts, revised and updated throughout the project and closed-out and archived when the project is finished. (I explain how to do this in this course)

Your project management knowledge and skill has to satisfy you; not some examination paper, certifying body or professional association (no offence to all three). It has to satisfy you, your projects and the changing terrain each and every project will navigated through over time.