I'm working with a design studio that is now offering web services to its clients. This book has been very helpful, giving us a look at web projects and procedures.

It is skewed to larger projects than we will likely be involved in.

The best parts of the book are the descriptions of real projects and real problems.

Humor helps the message get through: that these kinds of projects frequently change, new problems crop up, people don't always react the way you'd expect and that it's all part of the job.

It is true.

I was wondering: Why, given clints and good "implementors"-developers and designers (we are a small team), things go ugly every time?
This book gave me the answer - Poor management!

P.S This is my first book review ever.

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sorry for my English

I bought and read this book as I was trying to make a career move into Web Project Management. This book was very helpful to me in taking my PM skillset, and web-enabling it. I found the templates very useful as a starting point as well. When I eventually did land a job doing more web-based PM - I shared this books resources with my team to use on an intranet re-design project we're working on. I highly recommend this book.

I liked this book, really I did. But half the reason I bought it was in hopes that I could find the stuff on the CD useful. Unfortunately, half the stuff on the CD was windows-only, which excludes UNIX and, more importantly, the majority of graphic designers who use Mac computers, such as myself. This flaw is also obvious in the book - anyone unwilling to purchase a windows system and Microsoft Project is SOL. Frustrating.

I should say that I also felt the book could be a little bit more specific about invoicing and billing clients. The interview on Extreme Programming (?) was more topical here! Overall, though, it's a pretty good book, but probably not warranting all the five stars!

This book is excellent!

I run a web site design, hosting, and web application development company and use this book as a reference tool when questions or situations pop up. It packs great information into each chapter and has real-world case studies at the end of each chapter (that most project managers can relate to).