The One-Page Project Manager by Clark A. Campbell (2006)

These types of self-help books are always difficult to evaluate.  I would bet that a seasoned project manager, one who can fully appreciate some of the stories the author relates, would find this an enjoyable read.  I, as a novice, found it mostly tedious and repetitive.  That is a shame, since much of the information is useful and relevant.

The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project with a Single Piece of Paper by Clark A. Campbell discusses the tool he and his team created for keeping track of projects.  The tool itself is very nice and quite useful - it isn't revolutionary and variations of it have been made before, but the excel sheet Campbell uses is compact and succinct.

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Where the book gets tedious however, is Campbell's constant referencing of three different projects he worked on using the one-page excel sheet (referred in the book by the title name far too much as well).  Though I'm sure creating a warehouse is a difficult and complex task, I didn't necessarily want to know every detail while trying to understand the excel sheet.  The book also uses annoying "Key Concept" icons to point out what, to me, sounded just like common sense or rehashed tips.

I would recommend the excel spreadsheet and Campbell's useful guidance on using the tool, but skip the text on his projects.