Project management for people who were never hired as project managers — but still have to ship the work.
What this book is about
Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager (updated and revised) is FranklinCovey’s field guide for accidental PMs: people given a deadline, a messy stakeholder list, and no PMP credential. It covers scoping, communicating, holding people to commitments, and closing work without the full corporate PM machinery.
Our take
Useful if your job quietly became “make this happen.” It is process-light and workplace-real — checklists and conversations more than software. Skip it if you already live in PMI manuals; pick it up if you lead projects sideways from a specialist or team-lead seat.
Who should read this
- Team leads and specialists running projects without a PM title
- Startup and SME staff who wear too many hats
- New managers who inherited a timeline and a Slack channel
- Anyone who needs a shared language with “real” project managers
About the author
Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood wrote this as a FranklinCovey guide: practical habits for influence and execution, aimed at people who cannot hide behind a PMO.
