Good overview on project management concepts and tools. Personally, I would have loved more focus on the tools than on trying to highlight why PM is so important. The author also tended to describe successful real life projects but didn't quite manage to show WHY these were successful. Still, it is a good starting point. I'm not sure how much of this I will be able to apply for projects in academia which have different rules regarding funding, scope, risk and time frames. While the author says the book should be very accessible and applicable to many different settings, it is very much focused on projects in companies (including spending a lot of time on when to axe a project for another one).