SharePMI SOMD Project Management Book Library
Welcome to the PMI Southern Maryland Chapter Book Library. We want you to build your library and to become a better project manager - and to stay certified! Below is an initial selection of books that span the various Talent Triangle areas and cover various project managment skills.
The table below is filterable by Title of the Book, Author, or Category. Do you want a book by Stephen Covey? Just type Covey in the Author search box. Do you want a book that deals with Emotional Intelligence? Type in Emotional in the Title search box. Or do you want to look only at Leadership books? Type Leadership in the Category Search Box.
Thanks again. We will be adding to the list of books based on suggestions from you. If you believe that we should add a book, please contact the PMI Southern Maryland Chapter Director of Communications.
Thanks,
Jeff Yellets
President, PMI Southern Maryland Chapter
| Title | Author | Categories | Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 secrets successful people know about time management | Kevin Kruse | Leadership | |
| 3D Printing And Additive Manufacturing: Principles And Applications - Fifth Edition Of Rapid Prototyping | Chee Kai Chua | Strategic, Industry Knowledge | |
| 99 Negotiating Strategies: Tips, Tactics & Techniques Used by Wall Street's Toughest Dealmakers | David Rosen | Leadership Negotiation | |
| Achieving Strategic Alignment: How to Harness Its Power to Exceed Your Organizational Goals | Barry MacKechnie | Strategic Strategic Alignment | |
| Advanced Scheduling Handbook for Project Managers | Jeremie Averous Thierry Linares | Technical Scheduling | |
| Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others | John A. Daly | Leadership Influencing | |
| Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide: A Simplified Beginners Guide To Agile Project Management | Ed Stark | Technical Agile | |
| AGILE: Agile Project Management, Kanban, Scrum, Kaizen | Jason Bennett Jennifer Bowen | Technical Agile | |
| Becoming a person of influence: How to positively impact the lives of others | John C. Maxwell | Leadership Influencing | |
| Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems, Driving Innovation, and Transforming Organizations | Chris Ernst | Leadership Problem Solving | |
| Build your Dream Team: Leadership Based on a Passion for People | Candela Iglesias Chiesa | Leadership Team Building | |
| Business Acumen: In The Workplace (Global Workplace Skills Library) | Lori Gillin | Strategic Business Acumen | |
| Communications Skills for Project Managers | G. Michael Campbell PMP | Leadership Communication | |
| Conflict without Casualties: A Field Guide for Leading with Compassionate Accountability | Nate Regier Ph.D. | Leadership Conflict Management | |
| Contract Management for Non-Specialists: A Bite-Sized Business Book | Paul Davies | Strategic Contract Management | |
| Contract Management and Administration For Contract and Project Management Professionals: A Comprehensive Guide to Contracts, the Contracting Process, and to Managing and Administering Contracts | Joseph J. Corey Jr. | Strategic Contract Management | |
| Critical Chain | Eliyahu M. Goldratt | Strategic Strategic Alignment | |
| Critical Thinking: Beginners guide to advanced critical thinking concepts for problem solving, decision making and goal achievement | Steven West | Leadership Problem Solving | |
| Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition | Kerry Patterson | Leadership Communication Conflict Management | |
| Delivering Succeessful PMOs | Peter Taylor Ray Mead | Strategic Operational Function | |
| Developing Your Conflict Competence: A Hands-On Guide for Leaders, Managers, Facilitators, and Teams | Tim A. Flanagan | Leadership Conflict Management | |
| Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most | Douglas Stone | Leadership Conflict Management | |
| Earned Value Project Management | Quentin Fleming Joel Koppelman | Technical Project Control Schedule | |
| Emotional Intelligence : Improve Your EQ For Business And Relationships | Unleash The Empath In You | Daniel Goleman | Leadership Emotional Intelligence | |
| Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ | Daniel Goleman | Leadership Emotional Intelligence | |
| Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | Travis Bradberry | Leadership Emotional Intelligence | |
| Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process | Kenneth S. Rubin | Technical Agile | |
| Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into stepping stones for success | John C. Maxwell | Leadership Motivation | |
| Finance for Nonfinancial Managers, Second Edition (Briefcase Books Series) | Gene Siliciano | Strategic Finance | |
| Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean | Karen Berman Joe Knight | Strategic Finance | |
| Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team | Simon Sinek | Leadership Inspiration | |
| Finish what you start: the art of following through, taking action, executing, & self discipline | Peter Hollins | Leadership Motivation | |
| Four Scenarios for the Future of the Federal Government: Collected Essays on Transforming Government | Bill Brantley | Strategic Industry Knowledge | |
| Good Leaders Ask Great Questions | John C. Maxwell | Leadership Inspiration | |
| HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers (HBR Guide Series) | Harvard Business Review | Strategic Finance | |
| How Successful People Think | John C. Maxwell | Leadership Inspiration | |
| How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control | Ralph Young Steve Brady | Technical Project Control | |
| Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project | Tom Kendrick | Technical Risk Management | |
| Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2nd Edition | Douglas M. Marshall | Strategic Industry Knowledge | |
| Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't | Simon Sinek | Leadership Inspiration | |
| Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace | John C. Maxwell | Leadership Strategic Business Acumen | |
| Leadership 2.0 | Travis Bradberry | Leadership | |
| Leadership Essentials: Shaping Vision, Multiplying Influence, Defining Character | Greg Ogden | Leadership Creating Vision Aligning a Team to a Vision | |
| Leadership Perpectives: A Curated Selection of Blog Posts Published (Leadership Perspectives) (Volume 1) | David Barrett | Leadership | |
| Leading Successful PMOs | Peter Taylor | Strategic Operational Function | |
| Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World | Admiral William H. McRaven | Leadership | |
| Making Vision Stick (Leadership Library) | Andy Stanley | Leadership Aligning a Team to a Vision | |
| Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right (3rd edition) | Suzanne Robertson James Robertson | Technical Requirements Gathering | |
| Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow | Craig E. Johnson | Leadership Ethics | |
| Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It | Chris Voss | Leadership Negotiation | |
| Practical Project Control Manager Handbook | Jeremie Averous | Technical Project Control | |
| Practical Project Risk Management: The ATOM Methodology | David Hillson Peter Simon | Technical Risk Management | |
| Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success | Steven R. Covey | Leadership | |
| Project Management Case Studies | Harold Kerzner | Technical Case Studies | |
| Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling | Harold Kerzner | Technical Project Control Scheduling | |
| Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage | Jeffrey K. Pinto | Strategic Competitive Advantage | |
| Project Procurement Management: A Guide to Structured Procurements | Stephen Guth | Technical Procurement Management | |
| Project Recovery: Case Studies and Techniques for Overcoming Project Failure | Harold Kerzner | Technical Case Studies | |
| Project Risk Management: Essential Methods for Project Teams and Decision Maker | Yuri Raydugin | Technical Risk Management | |
| Project Scope Management: A Practical Guide to Requirements for Engineering, Product, Construction, IT and Enterprise Projects | Jamal Moustafaev | Technical Scope Management | |
| Project Team Leadership and Communication | Samuel Malachowsky | Leadership Communication | |
| Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity | Kim Scott | Leadership Giving Feedback | |
| Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (Collins Business Essentials) | Michael Hammer | Strategic Business Performance | |
| Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure | Todd Williams Tom Kendrick | Technical | |
| Resolving Conflicts at Work: Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job | Kenneth Cloke | Leadership Conflict Management | |
| Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World | Adam Josephs Brad Rubenstein | Technical Risk Management | |
| Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company | Kevin Cope | Strategic Business Acumen | |
| Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated | Yves Morieux Peter Tollman | Strategic Managing Complexity | |
| Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions | John S. Hammond | Strategic Decision Making | |
| Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action | Simon Sinek | Leadership Motivation | |
| Strategic Planning, A Pragmatic Guide | John H. Dobbs John F. Dobbs | Strategic Strategic Planning | |
| Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance | W. Gibb Dyer | Leadership Team Building | |
| Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed. | Steven A Silbiger | Strategic Finance | |
| Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well | Douglas Stone | Leadership Receiving Feedback | |
| The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team | John C. Maxwell | Leadership | |
| The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (10th Anniversary Edition) | John C. Maxwell | Leadership | |
| The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential | John C. Maxwell | Leadership | |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey | Leadership Inspiration | |
| The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done | Stephen Denning | Strategic Technical Scheduling Industry Knowledge | |
| The Business Acumen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in the Corporate World | Steven Haines | Strategic Business Acumen | |
| The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management | Tom DeMarco | Leadership Motivation | |
| The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Fully Revised Edition) | Mikael Krogerus Roman Tschäppeler Jenny Piening | Strategic Strategic Thinking | |
| The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable | Patrick Lencioni | Leadership | |
| The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done | Peter Drucker | Strategic Decision Making | |
| The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy | Jon Gordon | Leadership Motivation | |
| The Feedback Imperative: How to Give Everyday Feedback to Speed Up Your Team's Success | Anna Carroll | Leadership Giving Feedback | |
| The Keys to Our Success: Lessons Learned from 25 of Our Best Project Managers | David Barrett | Leadership | |
| The Motivational Techniques of Urban Meyer: A Leadership Case Study of the Ohio State Buckeyes Football Head Coach | Leadership Case Studies | Leadership Motivation | |
| The Only Negotiating Guide You'll Ever Need, Revised and Updated: 101 Ways to Win Every Time in Any Situation | Peter B. Stark | Leadership Negotiation | |
| The Persuasive Project Manager: Communicating for Understanding | Bill Brantley | Leadership Communication | |
| The Project Management Office (PMO): A Quest for Understanding | Monique Aubry Brian Hobbs | Strategic Operational Function | |
| The Seven Things Your Team Needs to Hear You Say | David M. Dye | Leadership Motivation | |
| Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration | Simon Sinek | Leadership Inspiration | |
| Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders | David Marquet Stephen Covey | Leadership Motivation | |
| Unearthing Business Requirements: Elicitation Tools and Techniques (Business Analysis Essential Library) | Rosemary Hossenlopp Kathleen B. Hass | Technical Requirements Gathering |