Review: Bedtime stories for project managers

Marisa Silva asked me to review her book ‘Bedtime stories for project managers: and others with trouble sleeping’.

It is a nice little booklet where you will get eleven fairy tales and a comparison with project management aspects, a theoretical explanation, the morale of the story from a project management perspective and how to cope with this aspect via a process, procedure or techniques and you will get references to related literature. It’s easy to read, it will fresh up your memory regarding the fairy tales and it give some food for thought as a project manager.

The following fairy tales are discussed:

	The fairy tale	The project management perspective
1	Emperor’s new clothes	Executives believing in their own weak business case (and are influenced by cognitive biases, pet projects, political games)
2	The stone soup	Keep the project scope creep under control
3	The three little pigs	the project manager’s risk appetite and risk management
5	The chicken and the pig	are you involved or committed?
6	The little red riding hood	Follow the critical path
7	The six blind men and the elephant	As a project manager, you need to hold a holistic and integrated vision
8	The wolf in sheep’s clothing	Watermelon reporting instead of transparent and honest reporting
9	The old man, the boy and the donkey	Impossible for a project manager to please everyone
10	The boy who cried wolf	Usage of project management ethics
11	The bed of Procrustes	Tailor to suit the project management environment

To order:Bedtime stories for project managers (eBook)