Book Review: Alpha Project Managers
After using his super PMP study guide some time back, I picked up Andy Crowe’s other book, an obscure little text, ‘Alpha Project Managers,’ published in 2006.
This has to be one of the most under produced books I’ve ever seen. Crowe essentially self-published on his own Velociteach label. It shows. The graphics are third rate and the cover is pretty bad.
But no matter. The information inside is fascinating. Crowe surveyed over 3,000 project managers and their co-workers/supervisors in order to identify the “top 2%” of project managers (”alpha project managers”). He tried to identify PMs who were consistently rated as excellent by the people they worked with and their customers. Once he found them, he zeroed in on their work habits and PM techniques.
Some of the interesting findings:
Each of these points (and others) are supported with some useful anecdotes from the PMs themselves. Crowe does a good job trying to help PMs understand these habits and apply them to their own work. This is a text which deserves wider recognition and higher quality production in a second edition.
Recommended. 197pp.
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