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  • Berkun, Scott: The Art Of Project Management
    The Art Of Project Management
    by Scott Berkun
    ISBN 1600330533 (1-60033-053-3)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    The Art of Project Management covers it all--from practical methods for making sure work gets done right and on time, to the mindset that can make you a great leader motivating your team to do their best. Reading this was like reading the blueprint for how the best projects are managed at Microsoft... I wish we always put these lessons into action!" --Joe Belfiore, General Manager, E-home Division, Microsoft Corporation

    "Berkun has written a fast paced, jargon-free and witty guide to what he wisely refers to as the 'art' of project management. It's a great introduction to the discipline. Seasoned and new managers will benefit from Berkun's perspectives." --Joe Mirza, Director, CNET Networks (Cnet.com)

    "Most books with the words 'project management' in the title are dry tomes. If that's what you are expecting to hear from Berkun's book, you will be pleasantly surprised. Sure, it's about project management. But it's also about creativity, situational problem-solving, and leadership. If you're a team member, project manager, or even a non-technical stakeholder, Scott offers dozens of practical tools and techniques you can use, and questions you can ask, to ensure your projects succeed." --Bill Bliss, Senior VP of product and customer experience, expedia.com

    In The Art of Project Management, you'll learn from a veteran manager of software and web development how to plan, manage, and lead projects. This personal account of hard lessons learned over a decade of work in the industry distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice. Inspiring, funny, honest, and compelling, this is the book you and your team need to have within arms reach. It will serve you well with your current work, and on future projects to come.

    Topics include:

    • How to make things happen
    • Making good decisions
    • Specifications and requirements
    • Ideas and what to do with them
    • How not to annoy people
    • Leadership and trust
    • The truth about making dates
    • What to do when things go wrong
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  • Berkun, Scott: Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
    Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
    by Scott Berkun
    ISBN 0596517718 (0-596-51771-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • The Myths of Innovation
    by Scott Berkun
    ISBN 0596527055 (0-596-52705-5)
    Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    How do we know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most of us, even experts, get it wrong all the time. We depend more than we realize on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history. In the new paperback edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in The New York Times, bestselling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and suprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations -- truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today. Through his entertaining and insightful explanations of the inherent patterns in how Einsteins discovered E=mc2 or Tim Berner Lees developed the idea of the world wide web, you will see how to develop existing knowledge into new innovations.

    Each entertaining chapter centers on breaking apart a powerful myth, popular in the business world despite it's lack of substance. Through Berkun's extensive research into the truth about innovations in technology, business and science, youll learn lessons from the expensive failures and dramatic successes of innovations past, and understand how innovators achieved what they did -- and what you need to do to be an innovator yourself. You'll discover:

    • Why problems are more important than solutions
    • How the good innovation is the enemy of the great
    • Why children are more creative than your co-workers
    • Why epiphanies and breakthroughs always take time
    • How all stories of innovations are distorted by the history effect
    • How to overcome peoples resistance to new ideas
    • Why the best idea doesnt often win

    "For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still dont have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while were satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong."

    -- Scott Berkun, from the text

    "Berkun sets us free to change the world."

    -- Guy Kawasaki, author of Art of the Start

    Scott was a manager at Microsoft from 1994-2003, on projects including v1-5 (not 6) of Internet Explorer. He is the author of three bestselling books, Making Things Happen, The Myths of Innovation and Confessions of a Public Speaker. He works full time as a writer and speaker, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes magazine, The Economist, The Washington Post, Wired magazine, National Public Radio and other media. He regularly contributes to Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg Businessweek, has taught creative thinking at the University of Washington, and has appeared as an innovation and management expert on MSNBC and on CNBC. He writes frequently on innovation and creative thinking at his blog: scottberkun.com and tweets at @berkun.

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  • Using the Internet With Your Mac/Book and Cd-Rom
    by Mary Ann Pike, Scott Berkun
    ISBN 0789702126 (0-7897-0212-6)
    Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub

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    This comprehensive guide is a complete tutorial/reference to the Internet. Users can quickly refer to the topic of interest, quickly understand the associated concepts and then follow the steps to achieve their desired results. The CD includes several programs in the following categories: Internet Access, FTP, Gopher, E-Mail, Newsreaders, Telenet, and many more. [via]

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