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lech's review
3.0
Practical advice, good reminders. I liked the first part of the book slightly more, feeling there wasn't enough essence to justify a full book. But I'll certainly store some of the author's guidelines for future reference.
stevex's review
4.0
This is a slim volume with an abundance of white space, able to be digested in one trip on the Tube (albeit a very long, delayed & interrupted one - thank you London Transport for your contribution to my education!)
Despite the size, once it gets past the rather waffly start, it's an excellent book - full of good advice & hard-won experience, aimed at enabling the project manager to be "lazy" (for which, read "efficient and effective"). Not entirely convinced about the "inverse dinosaur" metaphor, though that does work to emphasise contributions at the start and end of a project.
While the content is really good, I'm not so keen on the presentation - each short chapter is introduced by a paragraph in a slightly larger font than the rest of the text which is really off-putting, as, rather than emphasising the point, it tends to look like an accidental use of the wrong font. At its worst, one chapter starts with 4 font sizes, 2 font weights, 2 styles and 2 different fonts, all in the space of 4 lines. The author also has a tendency to include footnotes which can often fall into the "stating the obvious" camp.
Still, these are fairly minor annoyances, and shouldn't detract from the value of the content.
Despite the size, once it gets past the rather waffly start, it's an excellent book - full of good advice & hard-won experience, aimed at enabling the project manager to be "lazy" (for which, read "efficient and effective"). Not entirely convinced about the "inverse dinosaur" metaphor, though that does work to emphasise contributions at the start and end of a project.
While the content is really good, I'm not so keen on the presentation - each short chapter is introduced by a paragraph in a slightly larger font than the rest of the text which is really off-putting, as, rather than emphasising the point, it tends to look like an accidental use of the wrong font. At its worst, one chapter starts with 4 font sizes, 2 font weights, 2 styles and 2 different fonts, all in the space of 4 lines. The author also has a tendency to include footnotes which can often fall into the "stating the obvious" camp.
Still, these are fairly minor annoyances, and shouldn't detract from the value of the content.
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