Stevens Professor Shenhar's "Reinventing Project Management" Named Among "5 Best Business Books for 2007"

"Reinventing Project Management,"a book co-authored by Stevens Institute of Technology's Professor Aaron J. Shenhar with Professor Dov Dvir, published recently by Harvard Business School Press, has been named among the "Five Best Business Books of 2007."

The list was compiled and published by John Caddell, the founder and principal of Caddell Insight Group, a consulting firm focused on using business narrative, launching new products and businesses, and negotiating alliances. A recognized expert in telecommunications, outsourcing and enterprise software, he has more than 20 years experience in high-tech product development, operations and marketing.

"If you've worked on more than a handful of projects in your business career, you are familiar with failure,"writes Caddell, in reference to the book's topic. "Lots of projects simply don't work right: some are abandoned before they're complete, others don't meet expectations, others finish but are so agonizing that they burn out teams and managers both.

"'Reinventing Project Management' dissects the topic in great detail. It's a refreshing look at project management, not least because [the authors] focus less on the discipline of work breakdown structures and task dependencies and more on what different projects try to achieve and how methodologies and management approach must adapt to the needs of the project."