The reader who'd like to bypass the Introduction of this book or who might think that it's another story-tome about Project Management (PM) theory and principles understanding, is a wrong one. This book is one of those rare materials introducing the reader in a very popular played environment of "just easy-to-digest and immediately applying". There are described 50 essential PM lessons starting with a background of the TenStep" PM Process, a new powerful theoretical foundation including just 10 steps about PM and being focused on two main principles: "a scalable methodology and, respectively, one being aligned to represent a progression of PM competences". These ten PM process steps, as stated by the two authors Tom & Jeff Mochal, "represent the continous need for more and more PM discipline and control as a project gets more and more larger". The first two steps are for definition and planning, respectively: define the work, and build the workplan. The next eight steps are for managing and controlling the work: manage the workplan, manage issues, manage scope, manage communication, manage risk, manage documents, manage quality, manage metrics. Usually, project managers are neglecting the last two steps, but these two become very important when it is necessary to conduct all aspects of very large projects in parallel. So, the Ten Steps PM process is designed by authors in the way of a very flexible scalable methodology to manage a working duty or task process as a project, while supplying the necessary information for finally becoming a successful project manager. The PM methodology includes a step-by-step approach and a specific step is tailored for every case of the 50 lessons, in such a way that the reader could notice, for each of the lessons, how it is possible to directly apply one of the 10 steps to the particular case of the lesson, as a learning-and-applying procedure. The book is very attractive, also, as the 50 lessons are presented with an introduction with virtual players for each of the specific PM story. The lessons are scheduled along 12 months in a (virtual) company environment with PM implied employees, names and responsibilities, commitments to different tasks, and ways of accomplishments. There are discussed pro and contras, why PM steps are succeeding or not, and specific issues like: understanding the critical path of a project, managing risks before problems might occur, quality management on processes (not people), defining the overall project approach and the scheduled workplan management, collecting metrics and scaling the PM to determine the level of quality, communication plan and reporting procedures based on written status reports, documents and deliverables quality and timeliness for matching client expectations, using the WBS method to identify work tasks required for a project, team members responsibility for each activity in the scheduled workplan, all these being treated along a project roll-out and with a deep eyesight of the professionist authors. In addition to the 50 lessons, there is supplied a CD including 25 PM templates, in both MS Word and Adobe formats, supporting the TenStep methodology, and being described in the book” Appendix. Also, it is offered an exclusive Web page containing more information, and more PM templates around the Ten Step method. A Glossary including 23 main terms about PM methodology, and a very nice graphical presentation of each lesson text are making the book very valuable and attractive. It is a book which may serve as a very practical basis for both beginners and advanced project managers, starting to manage projects from small to very large ones.