Reviews for Value and Risk Management: A Guide to Best Practice

The average rating for Value and Risk Management: A Guide to Best Practice based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-19 00:00:00 Jeannine Cotler If you are aiming for a career in IT project management and plan to work for a very large corporation with a large budget, this book may be helpful to you, as that is the field of experience of the author. Otherwise, you will find his examples throughout the book very frustrating, as he does not relate his theories to other business or professional fields, volunteer organizations, or other areas where project management skills may be utilized. The chapters are long and he is VERY long winded, saying in 40 pages what could be said in 10. It also often feels like he is assuming the learner has previous experience in the project management field, which is often not the case with an undergraduate level college learner. It is obvious Wysocki has a lot of experience and is proud of it, but the book is heavily overloaded with the author's self-promotion and he never misses an opportunity to toot his own horn. My instructor also indicated that the test bank for the Wysocki book was riddled with errors. This was quite evident on the tests we took that were generated from it. After a few semesters with this book, my local college received so many complants from Project Management students that they are changing the text for next semester to Project Management: A Managerial Approach by Jack R Meredith and Samual J Mantel by Wiley Publishing. If you can wade through this tome, there are concepts that will be useful to you, but you will have to work hard to re-interpret them to the field of project management in general.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-26 00:00:00 Suresh Duraisamy Read 14 of the 18 chapters as part of the Software Project Management course (SEIS625) at the Graduate Programs in Software, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. The text provided a good introduction about the Project Management process from the perspective of software development projects. The book describes the Project Management Lifecycle, consisting of the five process groups, in the context of four typical style of projects - Traditional, Agile, Extreme, and Emertxe (extreme spelled backwards). The five process groups are namely Scoping, Planning, Launching, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing defined by the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK). The author, Robert K. Wysocki, an experienced project manager provides many insights based on his experience and perspective through out the book - and continually keeps and steers the discussion towards a common sense approach to Project Management. Project Management, according to Dr. Bob, is organized common sense. Definitely a good text if you are looking for an introduction to Project Management, especially from a software development perspective, and are interested in advancing to the next level in the practice and understanding of this discipline.