This book doesnt seem to fit the mold of any other PM book Ive read. Although its written as an end-to-end book by two authors, it is nearly an anthology in the scope and range of topics. The structure and sequence doesnt appear designed to teach project management. On the other hand, the techniques and processes presented are solid and reflect best practices in IT project management.Section I starts out like any PM book by covering ITs unique environment and project management processes that align to it. This is one of the strongest sections because it covers project planning and estimating in detail. The chapter on estimating techniques and tools is especially good, as is the chapter on quality control. Section II follows with excellent material on risk management, best practices standards and system measurement techniques. This section also covers popular PM software applications, including Project Kickstart and MS Project, as well as other tools that are commonly used to plan, schedule and control IT projects. Its in Section III where the book abruptly shifts direction. The chapters in this section cover network management and internet applications, and distributed objects and associated technology. While these are certainly topics that IT project managers need to understand, this section breaks the logical sequencing that was presented in the preceding sections. Despite this, the material does portray the challenges faced by IT project managers, and gives excellent advice for dealing with them. The wireless case study at the end of this section reinforces all of the key points that the authors make in the first three sections. Section IV focuses on requirements and design, and, like Sections I through III, contain an abundant amount of information that represents best practices and sound PM methods. Material that I particularly like include the focus on customer satisfaction (especially the approach to acceptance criteria), earned value, and project recovery methods. If you want a book from which to learn IT project management you may want to look elsewhere. However, if youre an experienced IT project manager youll find this book to be full of techniques and information. In spite of the problematic structure I find myself referring to it frequently and have made it one of my primary references.