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Name: Vysmaster
Address: AU

What They Didn't Tell You About Project Management In Class

I chose a publishing partner based on their capacity to get my book on shelves. Suffice to say I did not choose wisely. I'm less interested in the money. I have something to say, so here it is for free. It's not a text book. It's not a call to arms. It might make you laugh. It will make you think. Click on the button to download (2.1M) If you found it valuable or entertaining and if you can afford it, please make a donation.

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Robin Vysma became an IT professional graduating from the Queensland University of Technology in August 1988. He served as a developer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as the IT manager, for the Defence Security Branch in Canberra and as the manager of the Eastern Regional Information Centre, which he established for St John of God Health Care, in Ballarat. Robin holds a Master of Technology (Computing) from Swinburne, a certificate in management from The Australian Institute of Management and a Cert IV in Workplace Assessment and Training. He has had formal training in project management from AIM and with the Thomsett company through the Australian Computer Society. He has overseen a number of multi-million dollar IT projects in the health and defence industries with an enviable record for success.

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"This book pleasantly surprised me. Before picking it up I wouldn't have expected to be entertained and to learn about the topic at the same time. The writer doesn't take himself too seriously and laces his explanation of how project management works with humorous and shocking stories from his rich project management experiences.
I can recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about project management in an enjoyable way. Hard core project managers may find some entertaining and recognisable stories about project successes and failures."

Peter Munnik - Owner and General Maneger of ICML Austalia

"I was both educated and entertained. This should be a compulsory read for anyone involved in management, not just project managers"

"Reading this book is like talking to Robyn himself. It contains his collected wisdom built over years of working in the project management and ICT industries, along with some not-so-common common-sense.
I like it specifically for his 'open source' approach, recommending no single 'hidden-behind-Intellectual-Property' project management framework, but gets to the intent of each of the frameworks and approaches, and really focuses on what you are trying to do, rather than what document you might be trying to fill in.
A great, self-deprecating and refreshing read, which can help avoid some pitfalls (or at least, spot them as they come hurtling towards you), in a conversational and frank tone that bears reading a number of times, just to refresh the soul with some hard-won wisdom and retrospection that complements and supports my Organisational Change Management discipline and breaks open some known-but-not-talked-about myths."

Tim Little, Org Change Management Specialist

“What They Didn’t Tell You About Project Management in Class” is an excellent book that continues the promise of the title. It is simplistically written, humorous and spot on.

Robin Vysma has successfully skewered all of the problems that beset project managers - lack of training, reluctance to accept changes, resistance, timing and the culture of the workplace. This is a practical book that provides some assistance to those poor sods at middle management level who have been thrown in at the deep end because someone at a higher level has had “a really good idea”. If however you are a project manager to advance your own career then the resultant mess will serve you right and neither the author nor I will have any sympathy for you.

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I have a very dog-eared copy of this book that has done the rounds of volunteer organisations, local government employees and public servants, where it has fallen on most fertile soil.

Gaile Thompson (Education, Local Government, Farming)

If you've learned about project management in the classroom then the real world of projects is going to be quite an eye opener. There will be monsters against which you are defenceless. There will be seemingly insurmountable obstacles and your career will hinge on your capacity to deliver in this environment. So what's wrong with the way we teach project management now? How should it be taught? What are we doing wrong? The dollars at stake are in the scale of the national debt. It's time to start looking at project management from a different angle.

To read more: Click on the chain link in the footer to go to the blog, or download the book from the home page (it's free).

Hi, Just finished reading your book, Quite enjoyed it and appreciated the down to earth practical ideas and information. cheers

Grant Oswald
Project & Business Development Manager - Padman Stops (AgTech)
LinkedIn Aug 30, 2020 1:36 PM

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