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Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management is Scott Berkun’s practical, essay-based guide to the work of defining, planning, leading, and completing projects. Drawing substantially on his experience as a program manager at Microsoft, Berkun addresses software development often, but frames his lessons for projects in any field. The book is not a certification manual or a prescriptive methodology. Instead, it examines the judgment calls that formal processes cannot make automatically: setting a credible vision, translating ideas into requirements, handling estimates, making decisions, earning trust, and responding when plans fail. Its central premise is that project management is fundamentally a human activity. Schedules, specifications, and status reports matter, but they work only when people understand them, accept the necessary trade-offs, and act on them. Berkun uses a direct, conversational style to challenge common assumptions about control, authority, and predictability. The result is a management book focused less on ideal process diagrams than on the recurring tensions that determine whether coordinated work actually moves forward.