Other Books by Dave Pratt

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Buried in the Records is a mystery novel about murder for profit in a prominent urban medical center in Olympia, Washington.   

Bill Deming is a retired Army Medical Service Corps officer turned financial consultant. After twenty years away, Bill and his dog Alex travel home to Washington State and Wilkes Memorial Hospital to complete a routine audit for a client.  During the course of that assignment, he uncovers much more than routine financial data. Instead, he finds a trail of questionable business transactions that lead to suspicious patient deaths and murder for profit.

“Dave Pratt is an author with great potential.  Dedicated mystery readers will enjoy BURIED IN THE RECORDS." 

Donna Anders, author of the psychological thrillers Another Life (2005), Afraid of the Dark (2004), and Night Stalker (2003). 

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Ride the Wild West with Abe Chesterfield, The Remmington Man.

The spirit of the western novel is embodied in the struggle to survive in a wild country populated by wilder people. It is that willingness to fight against long odds that carries Abraham Chesterfield from a childhood of wealth, through the hopelessness of slavery, and then to a life as an unwilling gun-fighter.

The half-Paiute product of a disastrous social experiment in 1840’s Boston, young Abe sees his parents murdered, and then is sold into slavery by a grandparent too blinded by racial hatred to recognize his own blood.

In spite of his harsh existence, Abe grows strong in body, spirit and character. His natural affinity for horses and hard work brings him to the attention of the owner of Remington Arms, the birthplace of fine frontier weapons. 

Abe flourishes as a gunsmith and finds love while working at the Remington factory. When Secessionist raiders threaten Remington Arms, Abe must leave to protect the place and people he loves. In the ensuing cross-country gun battle with the Secessionists, Abe must steel himself against his pursuers’ lust for revenge, the turmoil of a love lost and re-found, and the unmasking of a deadly betrayer. 

Dave Pratt is a retired Army Medical Service Corps officer. After spending much of his non-Army life on horseback and freelancing for national and local magazines, Dave was drawn to write Coyote Run as the natural evolution of his own western interests. In his second career, he owned and managed DHP Project Services, LLC, a project management and business consulting company. Recently relocated from the Pacific Northwest, Dave and his wife currently reside in Middle—Tennessee.  

 Learn from Other Projects to Avoid Pitfalls on Your Projects! 

Projects fail at an alarming rate, whether they are information technology, training, construction, or policy development projects. No matter the focus, each year we experience an abundance of challenged projects that either require super-human effort to resuscitate or die an untimely death.

Great Lessons in Project Management is a treasure trove of project management lessons learned, from troubled projects—and from projects that went well. This collection of stories describes the events surrounding a particular challenge a project manager faced or a tool that another used effectively. Project managers of all types of projects can draw on these stories to validate their own good practices and to avoid the pitfalls so many have encountered on their projects.

 "Great Lessons in Project Management is a compilation of stories from the author’s several decades of experience as either a project manager, a quality assurance expert, or someone providing oversight and guidance to other project professionals. It attempts to bring together all the lessons that the author and some colleagues learned while facing particular challenges and events. Many of the lessons came from experiences in fixing damaged or failing projects, and with this book, readers will hopefully benefit by recognizing and avoiding some stumbling points and pitfalls that many are encountering in projects."

 Review provided by: JOSE MARIA DELOS SANTOS, ProjectManagement.com. April 2015 ·  

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Scale Your Project Management Efforts to Maximize Success!

One size does not fit all in project management. Selecting a project management approach that is appropriate for the size and complexity of a project is essential to achieving success. Over-managing a small project can bog it down in bureaucracy, while a laid-back approach can lead to disaster on a complex project.

Pragmatic Project Management: Five Scalable Steps to Success will help you select the methodologies and tools that will enable you to expend minimum effort to achieve maximum gain on your project. This clearly written guide lays the groundwork with a chapter on project sizing and management scaling and follows with chapters on each of the five essential elements of pragmatic project management:

• The project charter
• The project team
• The project plan
• Project issue management
• Project status tracking and reporting

Practical tips and a checklist are included at the end of each chapter. Use the checklists as you plan and execute your project to keep it on track and to scale. 

 "A simple, concise and well-written introduction to project management. If you want to understand the basics of project management, this book is an excellent choice. It does not cover advanced topics such as earned value management, but that material is not required in an introductory text.
I have used this book as the textbook in a graduate-level introductory project management course, and it has been very well regarded by both the students."

Review provided by  Kenneth P. Katz on Amazon.com, April 22, 2016

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Zero in on the answers to your IT project management questions.

With constrained schedules and anxious stakeholders eager for results, the typical IT project team doesn't have the luxury of wading through lengthy tomes to find solutions. The IT Project Management Answer Book guides you to the specific answers you need to successfully conduct and complete your IT project.

Written in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, The IT Project Management Answer Book covers all aspects of managing an IT project, from initial organizational issues to closeout. Following the classic project management processes, author David Pratt builds on the basics to offer valuable insights not found in other resources, including:

• Proven techniques such as the best way to manage defects
• How to create performance standards for outside contractors
• How to develop a user's manual

For more technically inclined team members, the author's plain-speak approach presents a refreshing view of the IT world. For those less technically oriented, he describes the tools and solutions for dealing with IT project challenges in an accessible, straightforward way. Let this information-packed resource lead you and your team to IT project success. 

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Read first-hand stories from prostate cancer survivors.

Men don’t talk about Prostate Cancer, so who is a guy supposed to talk to when word comes down that he has prostate cancer?  Talk to a urologist, and surgery is the best option. Talk to a radiation oncologist and radiation is the best approach to curing prostate cancer.  Others prescribe hormones, “watchful waiting”, laparoscopic surgery, cryosurgery, brachytherapy, and more.  What doctors recommend is based on their own experiences, training, and professional bias.  The “whole story” is not generally available from any one specialist, and what you hear from your doctor generally results in more questions than answers.  This is particularly when post-treatment quality of life concerns are addressed, such as side-effects. 

Voices from the Prostate Underground includes the stories of fifteen men who have survived prostate cancer through a variety of treatments.  The stories are told in their unique voices as each man answers the five questions that newly diagnosed men most often ask of those who have survived the disease:  How were you diagnosed?  What did you decide to do?  What treatment did you decide on?  How did things work out?  How did the experience affect your life?  Jim Keifert, a prostate cancer survivor and Chairman of the Board for UsToo, the international support group for Prostate Cancer, has reviewed the book and offers, “This will be a great contribution to men and their families who are dealing with prostate cancer.” 

 "This book is an excellent tool for one in the midst of making a decision regarding prostate cancer treatment. One will likely not get all the information he needs from his urologist. Information from men who have been through the prostate cancer treatment decision process is very valuable, and this is what you get in this book. Dave let's each man tell his own story in his own way."

  Amazon review provided by "HisServent"

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