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1.0 out of 5 stars
A money-making idea - but not for the reader, 24 May 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: The Project and Programme Support Office Handbook: Foundation and Advanced v. 1 & 2 (Paperback)
This book (and its individual Foundation and Advanced components) are being pushed hard by the ISEB as essential reading for their Programme/Project Support qualifications. They are also being pushed hard by the publishers to support Mr Marsh's roadshows. As a Programme Office Manager/Consultant with 5 years experience working in UK bluechips, I was looking forward to additional useful reading to assist my work. What I find is heavy-going, very basic and with gaps. Given the cost of the books, I am annoyed to have wasted both time and money for little return. I could write a better book on Project and Programme Office - if I had the time. I would suggest readers try looking at Project Managment Office (PMO) from a project management viewpoint - the PMO is there to enable project managers to do their job. So look at books on best practice project management - like Geoff Reiss (Project Management Demystified). Look at the reviews and go for books which deal with practical techniques/application. That's my suggestion for what it's worth.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not good enough, 22 Dec 2003
By A Customer
According to the blurb, Marsh has many years of experience in Project/Programme Offices. This book is a text for the ISEB's qualifications in this area. However, this book demonstrates why experience is no substitute for expertise. Marsh has a lot of content in this book, but it has limited practical value. He seems to have spent most of his career in environments which favour bureacracy/heavy-duty processes. However, the requirements of today's project/programme offices are for lean processes which enable top project performance. This book does little to meet these requirements. The book might be suitable for people working in the UK public sector, which still favours heavy-duty/high-overhead project/programme offices.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Plain, simple and examples!, 22 Mar 2004
This review is from: The Project and Programme Support Office Handbook: Foundation and Advanced v. 1 & 2 (Paperback)
Good companions for anyone associated with PPSOs and PMOs. Delivers basics as well as advanced topics with good examples, which takes them away from the purely academic fare that I've used. Downsides? Not many. There are some notable exceptions from the special interest groups section and the lack of suggestions for making life easier via specialist tools are slight drawbacks.
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