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erikars's review against another edition
2.0
I really wanted to like this book, and it did have some useful information. However, it had too many issues to be really enjoyable.
It was repetitive. It had a large amount of internal cross-referencing, which is good, but each reference was "Section X.Y, Full Section Name, on page N" which got annoying after awhile. There were a number of editing errors, and there were some sections where I doubted editing had been done at all. E.g., the chapter on measurement, which I was really looking forward to, had a bunch of graphs with some description, but no actual explanation of what where the values on the graph came from.
The biggest flaw, however, is that this book set itself up to be a book about project portfolio management for any project life cycle, but it felt like every other section had a "but that won't really work well if you're not using agile" caveat.
Overall, I don't regret having read this, but I cannot recommend it.
It was repetitive. It had a large amount of internal cross-referencing, which is good, but each reference was "Section X.Y, Full Section Name, on page N" which got annoying after awhile. There were a number of editing errors, and there were some sections where I doubted editing had been done at all. E.g., the chapter on measurement, which I was really looking forward to, had a bunch of graphs with some description, but no actual explanation of what where the values on the graph came from.
The biggest flaw, however, is that this book set itself up to be a book about project portfolio management for any project life cycle, but it felt like every other section had a "but that won't really work well if you're not using agile" caveat.
Overall, I don't regret having read this, but I cannot recommend it.
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