BOOK LAUNCH – “Managing Smaller and Medium-Sized Projects”

Blog, Book. Comments Off on BOOK LAUNCH – “Managing Smaller and Medium-Sized Projects”

Authors launching their books sometimes find themselves at a bookstore or other venue surrounded by empty seats except perhaps for their loyal family members, a solo ardent fan, random stragglers, and bored staff. Fortunately, my frugal, hooplaless and haka-free book launch collared a few curious people. Here’s me with colleagues and friends from our MBA days (some 30 years ago) including in the foreground Mark and Murray – successful entrepreneurs and clearly extremely intelligent and very discerning readers!

Free Sample

Click here for the FREE first chapter of this 204 page book. If you want a hard copy of the entire book please contact me by email jim_young@xtra.co.nz. The book will cost you NZ$38, which sum includes GST and free delivery within NZ.

The book is easy-to-read and is written in a friendly, … Read More »



Blog

My latest thoughts on Project Management and life.

The “Lean” Project

Lean is an often-used adjective in business these days, but there’s some confusion over its exact definition. In essence, the goal of Lean is...

Monte Carlo Simulation

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Edition 6) advocates the use of Monte Carlo simulation for performing quantitative risk analysis.

In the project management...

Time Management

Among other changes, the Project Management Institute in their latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Edition 6) has sensibly renamed the “Time Management”...