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Author Tony Martyr
We are all involved at some time in our lives in projects, if not professionally then in our private and community lives. Some projects fail completely and many more disappoint. We frequently hear reports of IT, construction, engineering, and personal projects fail....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Project Management Success with CMMI
Author James Persse
Use CMMI to Improve Project Management Efficiency, Effectiveness, and AccountabilityThe Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 2 offers powerful, end-to-end tools for improvement throughout your organization. In Project Management Success with C....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Stocks Under Rocks: How to Uncover Overlooked, Profitable Market Opportunities
Author Peter F. Ricchiuti
Find great stocks "in your own backyard": master do-it-yourself research techniques for uncovering today’s best small-cap equity opportunities! Peter Ricchiuti reveals the secrets of Tulane University’s Burkenroads Reports program, where he and 200+ business student....
Release Date 2013/12 -
SAFe® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Enterprises, Second Edition
Author Dean Leffingwell , Richard Knaster
SAFe®: The World's Leading Framework for Enterprise Agility "Philips is continuously driving to develop high-quality software in a predictable, fast, and Agile way. SAFe addresses this primary goal, and offers these further benefits: reduced time-to-market, improv....
Release Date 2018/08 -
The Professional Agile Leader: Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations
Author Ron Eringa , Kurt Bittner , Laurens Bonnema
Hone Your Agile Leadership Skills to Help Your Organization Transform and Thrive“Drawing on vast experience, Ron, Kurt, and Laurens tease out practical tips and patterns for good leadership [and show] how a leader can help shape the environment for agile teams to succeed. . . . The narrative style o....
Release Date 2022/06 -
Author Isabella Villani
Your customers are your future.Smartphones, social media and the internet have given customers access to more information than ever before. If your business fails them, they will switch to your competitor and never return. So how do you keep them? By mapping their ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Author Rebecca Duray , Howard Williams
Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT presents Lean concepts and techniques for improving processes and eliminating waste in IT operations and IT Service Management, in a manner that is easy to understand. The authors provide a context for discus....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Pamela Pavliscak
The need to understand people lies at the core of any product design, and currently there are two standard ways to measure that understanding: big datasets and small research studies—aka "thick data." Most organizations favor big over thick, but in doing so they mi....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Paul Witt
In this volume, leading scholars from the fields of communication, educational psychology, and international education address what is known about the strategic role of interpersonal communication in the teaching/learning process. Instruction often involves spoken ....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Jamie Lynn Cooke
Agile methodologies go to great lengths to provide developers with the tools and support they need to produce world-class software. Yet, they rely on individual business users having sufficient knowledge, vision, objectivity, and time to ensure the best possib....
Release Date 2013/10 -
The Software Deployment Mystery - Solved! A Customer Guide
Author Charles P. Brown , Fernando Zuliani , Reid Byers , Calvin Lawrence , Mike Ransom , Ca
To solve any mystery, detectives rely on their experience along with proven tools and techniques to unravel the conundrum. This IBM Redbook addresses the often illusive mystery known as software deployment success. The information, practices, and methods presented i....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Author Angela Sebaly
Tap into everyday courage for extraordinary resultsThe Courageous Leader presents a much-needed reminder for leaders everywhere: it takes courage. Courage is not just about heroic acts in grandiose situations—it's about everyday, solid-as-a-rock support and leader....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential
Author Robert Webber
UNLOCKING AGILE'S MISSED POTENTIALAgile has not delivered on its promises. The business side expected faster time to market, but they still experience the long delays of bloated releases. Engineers thought they would be given time to build the product right the first time, but they are rushed under....
Release Date 2022/08 -
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Author David Schmaltz
If you work, you probably manage projects every day-even if "project manager" isn't in your official title-and you know how frustrating the experience can be. Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor....
Release Date 2003/04 -
CPM Scheduling for Construction: Best Practices and Guidelines
Author Craig Relyea , Peter Oakander , Christopher Carson
The present edition, an SEI collaboration with the PMI Scheduling Community of Practice, provides readers with a reference guide that is like having an experienced scheduling professional at hand. The book itself is laid out in a way that follows the phases of bui....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Richard Krevolin
Corporations can no longer just worship the bottom line. Consumers and customers want to be associated with brands that align with their values. For business success today, your company needs to tell a compelling story that creates engagement, word-of-mouth, and br....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Agile for Instructional Designers: Iterative Project Management to Achieve Results
Author Megan Torrance
Discover Agile for Better Instructional DesignTo serve business needs amid greater volatility and uncertainty in the workplace, learning and development professionals need project management methods that can keep up. Enter Agile.Popular in the software development ....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Jacob Stoller
As organizations strive to do more with less, many are turning to Lean methodology, which is based on the same techniques that propelled the legendary turnaround of Japan's industrial sector after World War II. Few leaders, however, understand that the real se....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Successful Management Guidelines (Collection)
Author Stephen Robbins , Martha I. Finney
Each book in the bestselling Truth About series offers the author's practical and distilled knowledge on a particular business topic, showing readers how to apply these principles in their daily work lives. With an 'aha' on every page, information is presented i....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Agile Leadership Toolkit: Learning to Thrive with Self-Managing Teams
Author Peter Koning
Practical, Proven Tools for Leading and Empowering High-Performing Agile TeamsA leader is like a farmer, who doesn't grow crops by pulling them but instead creates the perfect environment for the crops to grow and thrive.If you lead in organizations that have adop....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Introduction to the Team Software Process(SM)
Author James W. Over , Watts S. Humphrey
Watts Humphrey is the visionary behind the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)(R) and the Personal Software Process (PSP) (sm). The CMM contains a framework for software process improvement at the organizational level. The PSP builds the self-discipline needed for indiv....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones
Author Joseph Jaffe
Why customer retention is the new acquisitionIf there's anything the recession of 2009 taught us, it was the importance of investing in our customers, but when was this any different? So says Joseph Jaffe, bestselling author of Life After the 30-Second Spot and Joi....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Win at Work!: The Everybody Wins Approach to Conflict Resolution
Author Diane Katz PhD
Proven techniques for resolving workplace conflictsAfter years of seeing clients struggling and their businesses suffering with destructive conflicts, Diane Katz developed The Working Circle, a step-by-step process that helps everyone in business resolve conflict in....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Author THE TEAM AT HAVAS PR , Marian Salzman
Bloggers, influencers, citizen journalists…today’s news landscape is crowded and constantly changing. As a PR professional, how do you match your message to the medium and ensure that it gets heard above the noise?Public relations maverick Marian Salzman goes behin....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Lead with Your Customer: Transform Culture and Brand into World-Class Excellence
Author J. Jeff Kober , Mark David Jones
What do successful organizations do that makes them consistently successful? It's simple and yet, deep—they serve their customers by understanding their needs and expectations and then, deliver to those needs and expectations. With years of experience and research ....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Leaving ADDIE for SAM Field Guide
Author Richard Sites , Angel Green
Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.In the 2012 bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, learning professionals were introduced to the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and the Savvy Start—the key to a successful project ki....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Author Steve Reilly
This book is for anyone who has either worked for or been a difficult boss. It will especially benefit those new to management and struggling to figure out how to lead a team without being too controlling. Using the foundational ideas of clear expectations, honest ....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide
Author Mary Cooch
Effective e-learning for younger students using Moodle as your Classroom AssistantFocus on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go on day after dayEngage and mot....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Author Neil Raden , James Taylor
“Automated decisions systems are probably already being used in your industry, and they will undoubtedly grow in importance. If your business needs to make quick, accurate decisions on an industrialized scale, you need to read this book.”Thomas H. Davenport, Profess....
Release Date 2007/06