Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success

Rating: ****** (Decent)

Review:

An excellent overview of the way Hollywood works (as far as I can tell), but unfortunately not a very good book about project management.

60% of the book gives descriptions and stories about how movies are made in Tinseltown, and why they usually succeed very well (from an economic perspective, not quality or cultural). The remaining 40% is trying to map this into IT projects (with pretty lousy success) and discuss generic project management issues. The author may be a good PM (and a good story-writer as well), but this fails to give anything to the reader except an interesting view of how another (non-IT) industry handles its projects.

All in all, if you know the limitations of the book, this is interesting reading that may explain a lot of the decisions that are made when movies are contructed.