Pm Crash Course: Premier Edition

This book has been updated to Second Edition (July 2014) see listing 193273578X.The new enhanced version includes further tips and tricks for anyone starting out in Project Management. This is also an easy read before tackling the PMBOK Guide if you are contemplating CAPM or PMP Certification.

Pm Crash Course: Premier Edition This is a small book but full of practical take aways to start implementing best practices in your project management work. It's a subset of the Prepare for PMP book from Rita.

Written by Rita Mulcahy a long time back, like 11 years ago, this one is a sort of refresher course or a starting point for a PM newbie. This book also serves as a staring point to your endeavor of being a PMP. This one small book also serves the purpose of a refresher which PM practitioners having PMP can read periodically to remind the philosophy behind good Project Management.Be aware, since it was written nearly 11 years ago some topics like Quality Management, Project Closing etc. are not covered.

Used this in conjunction with other books and passed the PMI PM certification on the first try. Worth what I paid for it.

This is a book that provides a great resume of how to manage a project. It should also be read by anyone having to draft Statement of work, professional services quotations or having to evaluate workload for teams.I have been doing informal project management for 20 years, am self trained, learned from my failures and successes and the book really sums up all that should be known and used.

This book is very good as:- a starting point for a PM newbie before the academic "PMP preparation book" by Rita- a concise "reminder" for PM practitioners having PMP - that you can read each 1-2 years just to refresh the philosophy lying beneath PMBOK ("why" in the end do we need it?) in a time-efficient mannerDisadvantage of this book is natural - it was written nearly 10 years ago (probably, in the times of PMBOK 3) and some topics (like Quality Management or Project Closing) are not covered.

Met with expectations, good resource.