Effective Project Planning Meetings Guide: Practical Tips for Ensuring Project Success | Team Collaboration & Productivity Strategies

There are ton of books on running effective meetings. However, few of them get to the specifics on facilitating project planning meetings. This book was written for project managers who need real-world tips and strategies to design and facilitate effective project planning meetings.As an instructor who prepares students to sit for and pass a grueling project management certification exam, I found this book to be a wonderful reinforcement of the better practice tips that one might learn through an exam prep course. In fact, my suggestion would be for those individuals who passed that certification exam, to consider picking up this book as it will reinforce what you learned during your studies of the 49 project management processes—almost half of them are planning processes—and use this book as another guide to refine your project management skillsets. Plus you obtain continuing education credits for reading the book! This book clarifies the better practice strategies and provides real-life examples and relevant application of the concepts for your next planning meeting.This book read better than a textbook as it was full of humor and step-by-step tips for immediate application. The authors provide insight on Agile project planning, tips on facilitating status meetings and lessons learned meetings, and even their appendices provide additional information on topics such as Project Management 101, meeting war stories, and access to their templates.Can’t meet in person? They’ve got that covered too. While the focus of the book is primarily around face-to-face meetings, they offer tips and strategies to still accomplish the planning meeting goals in a virtual setting.