19 Great Project Management Books for Reading in 2019
Following up on the trends of the coming year, we decided to disclose the book theme and describe the newest offers from the publishing market.
In our article, you will meet with the most readable books that are dedicated to the most relevant trends in project management. We truly believe that all the books in our top list will stay on the front burner in 2019, so it is definitely worth reading and seeking out useful professional tips. Let’s explore it together!
19 Books for 2019 — top list
We collected the most incredible and actual books for the period from 2016 to 2018. All these novelties will be interesting not only for project managers but also for many different specialists that are involved in the project development working process.
Let’s start our top charts with a very brilliant composition of American famous psychiatrist and business consultant, Mark Goulston. He has been cooperating with many world enterprises and global organizations, including FBI, for many years, and he knows a good deal about everything that is concerned with people management and business development.
This book is a true guidance on how to conduct the right business negotiations, how to get out of conflicts and how to solve difficult situations during some important meetings. The author is quite experienced in terms of communication with deviants, so his recommendations and tips are the real assets for business specialists at large, including project managers. Long story short, this book is certainly worth to be read and discussed!
2. Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World (Adam Josephs & Brad Rubenstein, 2018)
Here you can see a great creation of a talented designer, Brad Rubenstein, and a sophisticated project manager, Adam Josephs. They have united to not only share their experience in project management but also to express two different views on the processes taking place in this industry.
In this book, you can find a plenty of very useful tips on how to deal with minor issues timely in order to prevent them from transforming into serious troubles — it is a real risk management guide! Also, the authors get the point that during the project development process, it is critical to pay attention to the development team’s attitude to work and how properly they manage with their personal tasks.
3. Principles: Life and Work (Ray Dalio, 2017)
This book is the case when a skilled professional at project management discovers his new talent in the book-writing industry. Perfect match! Ray Dalio is pleased to present his great material consisting of many practices, management techniques, brilliant methods of making business decisions, problem-solving advice and other useful components.
Thanks to this book, it becomes easier to understand the main processes in project management and have a clear vision of many strange but necessary procedures that are executed by project management specialists — it is just important to rationalize everything in your personal work and simplify the work of other specialists. It is not easy to be easy but it is worth learning and trying!
4. LEAN: THE BIBLE — 7 Manuscripts (Harry Altman, 2017)
In our top list, we decided to reveal the topic of Lean methodology in full measure with this miscellany written by Harry Altman. Actually, it is not one book consisting of seven parts — there is a real collection that is dedicated to every aspect of the relevant project management. The collection contains seven independent books, as follows:
- Lean Startup
- Lean Six Sigma
- Lean Analytics
- Lean Enterprise
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Agile Project Management
In other words, if you want to sound Lean and Agile methodologies to the bottom, you should definitely pay your attention to this collection, read and practice it all!
5. The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual (Lisa Goldman, Kate Purmal & Anne Janzer, 2016)
This book is a successful result of the collaborative work made by three excellent specialists: educator, marketing consultant and a startup expert. The authors combined their forces, experience and knowledge, and it all turned into the bestseller!
You can see a great book that is full of useful information about project management, business dealing and leadership improvement. Every specialist involved in the project or product management can draw valuable insights there and use it in his personal work. This book becomes your favorite business coach and brings you to the best results!
It is so good when an experienced and distinguished person is open to disclose the secret of his personal recipe for success — and now you see such a book!
Despite the fact that the reading of this book is facile and unstrained, the author talks about many complicated and challenging moments in the project management and in business at large. There you can know about many different approaches to working and learn a lot of effective tips on how to become the best version of yourself in business and project management.
7. Accidental Project Manager (Ray Frohnhoefer, 2018)
This book is an original story about the work of a project manager and the comparing this work with a superhero life. Believe us, it is a really interesting thing to read!
The author of this new product is an experienced business consultant who can not only verbally but also in written form expresses his great thoughts and convey the most important aspects of work. He shares his rich working experience, talks about the most common problems that a typical project manager can come across with and gives the invaluable recommendations on how to avoid them or solve them easier.
8. PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide (Kim Heldman, 2018)
This book will be a true helper for those specialists who want to verify their professional qualification and obtain the prestigious PMP certificate. This document is not just a regular thing — it is a valuable sign and a high-quality mark for the specialist, that can give him more possibilities — more job offers with hefty salaries, for example. Is not that a good motivation?
This updated exam study guide contains a plenty of practical exercises, directed to the improvement of professional knowledge and skills. There you can also find many great tips on how to prepare yourself for the exam in a more appropriate way with minimal efforts and worries. Read and follow this book!
9. Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done (Brett Harned, 2017)
Speaking of such a field as project management, it is a mistake to consider this only as a set of certain tools and practices. Project management is a specific field where people are the key elements of the whole process, so it is important not to forget about it and take care of every person involved in the work.
This book contains great information about the role of people management and how it is crucial to appreciate every suggestion and idea of every team member. Also, there are many effective practices, approaches to project development, useful tips on how to avoid critical risks and big business problems.
10. The Velocity Advantage (Jack Bergstrand, 2016)
Faster, stronger, better is for the win — this phrase certainly can become a motto of this book! The author, Jack Bergstrand is known by his revolutionary ideas in work team management and encouragement, so he definitely knows many things about how to make people work harder with their truthful pleasure.
In this book, you can meet with many useful tips on how to organize a smooth and consistent project teamwork, to build a proper cross-functional collaboration and increase the velocity and effectiveness in your company — it is all about the business success!
11. #ProMa: Product Management Tools, Methods and Some Off-the-wall Ideas (Dinker Charak, 2018)
This book is based on the popular blog of one great project management expert, Dinker Charak. He has been working as a successful business consultant, and he is glad to share his experience with everyone in his book.
There you can find many interesting facts about global project management and its parts, meet with the most effective practices, techniques and methods of doing business. The author is not greedy for really profitable information, so you should take this opportunity!
The cover of this book clearly illustrates its content — the book material will be useful for all professionals who need quality advice to improve their work.
It is a true time management guide that helps specialists from many industries, including project and product management, to organize every their working day properly. Thanks to this book, it becomes easy to execute work on time and increase personal productivity and effectiveness. It is strongly recommended to read this book for everyone!
This book is a serious collection of tips for managing the most complicated projects, with their big amounts of investment and complex structures, where every unverified decision can cost heaps of money.
The author emphasizes the importance of proper ways of project compounding and gives many examples of related effective practices. This book will be helpful for project and product managers, stakeholders, project investors and other top professionals.
14. Project Management Case Studies (Harold Kerzner, 2017)
Every job, that has been completed successfully or not so, has to be checked and reviewed by professionals. So project management is the sphere where case studies play a significant role in the understanding of the received experience and results.
Therefore, the book that contains more than one hundred different case studies in project management, will be a really useful thing for many specialists involved in the working processes of this industry. Read, practice and analyze them all!
15. Project Risk Management: A Practical Implementation Approach (Michael M. Bissonette, 2016)
This book is another lucky chance to combine useful information, effective tips and work practices, with the easy and accessible form of its content. The author is a high-qualified business expert, and his 35+ years of working experience mean a lot.
There you can read many beneficial recommendations on how to avoid the most common risks in project management, how to use all the advantages of the current business situation and how to build a proper workflow for the entire team.
16. INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Marty Cagan, 2017)
Project management is a unique sphere that unites a plenty of different business directions. And as usual, a good project manager should be able to think about the consumers’ preferences, that is, to be a kind of product marketing manager.
In this book, the author reveals many interesting secrets of the development of such products that are guaranteed to be welcome and desired by consumers or users. It is definitely worth reading for every self-respecting specialist!
This book is one more brilliant time management guide that will be certainly profitable for project management professionals. But its content is very valuable because of its author — it is the creation of the most famous business speaker and coach, Brian Tracy!
It is his new book where he continues to share the greatest methods of self-organizing and improving the professional and personal qualities. Every Brian Tracy’s book or presentation is a real treasure in the entire business world!
18. Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow (Joshua Spodek, 2017)
It is worth remembering that a true project manager should be confident, cool-headed and with the abilities to hear and listen to his colleagues. That is, every project manager should be a true leader.
This book is a great helper for those specialists who want to grow or improve their leadership skills and be able to manage not only working projects but also people, too. Stay cool and read this book!
In order to conclude our big top list, we are glad to present you this newest book published November 20, 2018, and written by a talented business scientist, Mik Kersten.
This book is a really great material that contains many effective tips on how to bring the project from its ideation to its production. There you can find useful working practices, techniques and profitable approaches to project development.
Conclusion
To sum up all the above, we would like to know your own opinion about one of these books. Also, you can give us your personal recommendations which project management book is worth reading — write about it in the comments!
