This book was highly recommended by a project manager I respected as someone very highly experienced. The book presents the project delivery system used by the engineering firm CH2MHILL. It covers the topic at a very high level, and is very straightforward and practical. It is by no means complete. I doubt if CH2MHILL uses this and only this as their project delivery system. For example, it does not tackle progress monitoring.
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Project Delivery System: Fourth Edition: CH2M HILL Project Mangers: 9780965261616: BooksI found the chapters on planning the project, and the one on building customer relationships clear and enlightening. They are the best parts of the book.
If you work in a project where there is no project management process, this book provides a framework (but no more than that). It does not explain what they mean by ‘Project Delivery’ as opposed to ‘Project Management’.
Listed below are some of the books referenced by the above work. This list is not necessarily complete (sometimes, I list only those that interest me). The Amazon links are to the latest editions of the book, not necessarily the edition cited in the above work.
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| Title | Author | Remarks |
| Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management | John P. Kotter | Amazon |
 Principle-Centered Leadership | Stephen Covey | Amazon |
| The Leader-Manager: Guidelines for Action | William Hitt | Amazon |
| The Empowered Manager | Peter Block | Amazon |
| Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change | David K Hurst | Amazon |
| Leadership, New and Revised: The Inner Side of Greatness, A Philosophy for Leaders | Peter Koestenbaum | Amazon |
| The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization | Peter Senge | Amazon |
| Engineering Management: People and Projects | Murray Shainis, Anton Dekom, and Charles McVinney | Amazon |
| Managing as a Performing Art: New Ideas for a World of Chaotic Change | Peter B. Vaill | Amazon) |
| Productive Workplaces: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century | Marvin R. Weisbord | Amazon |
| Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest | Peter Block | Amazon |
| Customer Bonding: Pathway to Lasting Customer Loyalty | Richard Cross and Janet Smith | Amazon |
| Service Breakthroughs | James L. Heskett | Amazon |
| The One to One Future - Building Relationships One Customer at a Time | Don Peppers and Martha Rogers | Amazon |
| Value Pricing for the Design Firm | Frank A. Stasiowski | Amazon |
| Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change | William Bridges and Susan Bridges | Amazon |
| Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In | Roger Fisher, William L. Ury and Bruce Patton | Amazon |
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