BOOKS FROM BEHIND THE GANTT CHART
PMTALES Books & Field Guides
Longer warnings, sharper stories, and giftable project-management survival artifacts from D.B. Trench.
Not everyone starts with a bundle. Some start with a book. Some start with a field guide. Some start with the title that makes them laugh because it should not feel this familiar.
That works too. The books deepen the PMTales world, sharpen the language, and give readers another way into the tools, resources, and Academy.
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Join the PMTales Dispatch and get the free-resource library: Fluent in Nonsense Survival Sheet, Scope Creep Early Warning Sheet, Impossible Project Survival Pack, Trench Field Notes Kit, and bonus chapters.
Fluent in Nonsense Survival Sheet - Meeting Fog
Scope Creep Early Warning Sheet - Small Asks
Impossible Project Survival Pack - Fake Green
Trench Field Notes Kit - Warning Signals
Pied Piper Bonus Chapter - Story first Entry
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