posted 16 years ago
Ilja,
Behind Closed Doors is a book about how to manage people. How to hear what they want to do, how to give feedback, how to coach. A bit about managing the project portfolio, strictly from a management position. It's about the people issues in management.
Manage It! is about how to organize the tasks, see the risks, and decide which actions to take when managing a project or series of projects. Although I lean towards agile approaches, I also recognize not everyone is ready for the discipline that is part of agile, so Manage It! guides the reader into more successful options to use on the project the reader is on now. In Manage It!, I talk about how to build a schedule of interdependent tasks. In Behind Closed Doors, the manager might tell someone to do so, but not how.
Johanna