Overview
- Shares stories of how to break into project management, cultivate leadership skills, and influence higher-ups
- Provides tips to win assignments to manage career-advancing projects and ace deliveries
- Tells how to avoid pitfalls and recover from operational failures and managerial mistakes
- Reveals personal experiences for managing the stresses of project management and maintaining a high morale
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- project manager
- project management career advice
- interviews
- PMP
- project management professional
- PMI
- Project Management Institute
- PMO
- Project Management Office
- PMO director
- program manager
- program director
- senior project manager
- associate project manager
- project management software
- project management consultancy
- project management entrepreneur
- how to get hired at Google
- leadership skills
- influence strategies
About this book
Bruce Harpham, PMP—a project management career advisor and journalist—has chosen interviewees who range across the spectrum of company size and maturity and of individual career stages—from CEOs who were formerly project managers (such asMavenlink’s Ray Grainger); to founders of project management consulting firms (such as Tramore’s Tom Atkins); to project managers at the world’s leading tech giants (such as IBM’s Bob Tarne, Google’s Michael Lubrano, Apple’s Seth J. Gillespie, and Cisco’s Hassan Osman), in the space industry (such as NASA’s David Woerner, Canadian Space Agency’s Isabelle Tremblay and EUMETSAT’s Hilary Wilson), in financial services (such as TD Bank’s Ilana Sprongl and Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System’s Annette Lyjak), and at transportation companies (such as Amtrak’s Sarina Arcari).
What You'll Learn
Practicing project managers and engineers and graduates who aspire to become project managers will learn from the mouths of seasoned exponents at the top of their profession:
- Break into project management, cultivate leadership skills, and influence higher-ups
- Win assignments to manage career-advancing projects and ace deliveries
- Avoid pitfalls and recover from operational failures and managerial mistakes
- Manage the distractions and pressures of project work successfully while maintaining high morale
- Discover the books, courses, and development strategies they used to make it to the top
Who This Book Is For
Practicing project managers—including the half million PMI members required to pursue continuing education to maintain certification. The secondary readership is engineers, career-changers, and recent graduates who aspire to become project managers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bruce Harpham, PMP, is the founder of Project Management Hacks career consultancy. He is also an award-winning blogger for IT World Canada. In 2016, TimeCamp named him as one of the top 123 Top Influencers in the Project Management Industry. His articles on project management, engineering careers, IT strategy, cybersecurity, leadership, and innovation have appeared on ProjectManagement.com, Success.com, Monster.com, CIO.com, CSOonline.com, and in InfoWorld, College Recruiter, Profit Guide, and other publications.
Bruce has been interviewed by the Globe & Mail. He has appeared on several industry podcasts, including The Project Management Podcast, The People and Projects Podcast, and The Engineering Career Coach Podcast.
Bruce holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and certifications from the Canadian Securities Institute. His professional experience and projects focuson the financial services industry.
Bruce pursues his passion for education as an alumni volunteer at the University of Toronto. He is also fundraiser for various causes, including the Toronto Public Library and the United Way.
Bruce has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in information studies from the University of Toronto. He also has a master’s degree in history from the University of Western Ontario. He currently lives in Toronto.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Project Managers at Work
Authors: Bruce Harpham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2668-1
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Apress Access Books, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Bruce Harpham 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2667-4Published: 29 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-2668-1Published: 28 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 316
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Project Management, Careers in Business and Mangagement, Job Careers in Science and Engineering, Business Strategy/Leadership, The Computing Profession