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Change Their Mind: 6 Practical Steps to Persuade Anyone Anytime
Author Simon Horton
Simon Horton is one of the world’s leading experts and trainers on negotiation, he has written a number of successful books on the topic. Over a 20-year career in the field, he has worked with many of the world’s leading businesses. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Imperial College and regularly appears....
Release Date 2022/05 -
Project Management for Profit: A Failsafe Guide to Keeping Projects On Track and On Budget
Author John Case , Brad Angus , Roger Thomas , Joe Knight
No More Headaches, Hypertension, or HeartburnIf your work involves projects, then this book is for you. It will show every company owner and project manager—at businesses large and small—how to run projects differently. You’ll benefit if you’ve ever:• been over budg....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Author Michael Nir
Use this practical, step-by-step guide on lean agile strategy to harness technological disruption at your large business to successfully advance your business rather than suffer a loss of business. The lean agile enterprise concept is demystified and translated int....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Author Matt LeMay
The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at night: How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software.....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Author Robert M. Sholtes , J. Chris White
Recent computer-based tools for project planning and management focus on user-friendliness and interconnectivity. However, these programs function on the Critical Path Method, or CPM, which was created in the 1950s. These programs, which involve simplistic models a....
Release Date 2016/04 -
The 2006 ASTD Training & Performance Sourcebook
Author Patricia Phillips , Mel Silberman
The 2006 edition of the ASTD Training and Performance Sourcebook, edited by training guru Dr. Mel Silberman, draws on the knowledge and expertise of today's best trainers and consultants. In this one comprehensive book, you will find the tools you need in such impo....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Author David Moss
Understanding the Ground Rules for the Global EconomyIn this revised and updated edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging langua....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Lean Startups for Social Change
Author Michel Gelobter
For years, the lean startup has been revolutionizing both new and established businesses. In this eye-opening book, serial social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter shows how it can do the same for nonprofits.Traditionally, whether creating a new business or a new p....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success, Second Edition
Author Alfonso Bucero , Randall Englund
The second edition of Project Sponsorship—which includes an Appendix with new case studies, expanded assessment tools, and templates—shows how project sponsors and project managers can develop the skills they need to manage successful projects. Randall ....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Project Procurement: A Real-World Guide for Procurement Skills
Author Ajay Bhargove
Project Procurement: A Real-World Guide to Procurement Skills provides insight into the procurement community across sectors and across the globe. Here, the author covers the most widely used techniques and methods for supplier management, including supplier qualif....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Choose Your WoW - Second Edition
Author Project Management Institute
This book: • Provides a foundation for enterprise agility, value streams, and a disciplined approach to DevOps; • Is a pragmatic application of agile, lean, and traditional techniques for your enterprise-class environment; • Overviews a strategy for teams to evolve a fit-for-purpose, flexible WoW th....
Release Date 2022/05 -
Author Lynda Girvan , Simon Girvan
This book is an introductory guide to agile principles, values and mindset that will equip individuals and teams, regardless of role, to apply Agile from first principles. Practical examples are used throughout to bring real-world context to agile theory. This book is ideal for those wanting to achi....
Release Date 2022/05 -
Author Michael McCarthy , Pat Gannon-Leary
Customer Care provides a detailed course suitable for delivery to library staff at all levels. It can be used as a stand-alone reference work for customer care processes and procedures or, alternatively, it can be used by library staff to tailor a customer care cour....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Author Guglielmo Trentin
This book outlines how network technology can support, foster and enhance the Knowledge Management, Sharing and Development (KMSD) processes in professional environments through the activation of both formal and informal knowledge flows. Understanding how ICT can be....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Jobin Kuruvilla
Develop and customize plugins, program workflows, work on custom fields, master JQL functions, and more - to effectively customize, manage, and extend JIRAExtend and Customize JIRA--Work with custom fields, workflows, Reports & Gadgets, JQL functions, plugins, a....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Practice Standard for Project Estimating
Author Project Management Institute
Consistent with the PMBOK® Guide - Fourth Edition, the Practice Standard for Project Estimating describes the life cycle stages of project estimating. It details the aspects of resources, durations, and costs, and explains the concept of progressive elaboratio....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Financing and Managing Projects, Volume II
Author Ashok Panjwani , Nand L. Dhameja
Project is an instrument of change and the term "project" is evolving and constantly changing. With the increasing emphasis on social and infrastructure projects, executives, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders have to look into the managerial and financing as....
Release Date 2017/09 -
101 Tips for Improving Your Business Communication
This book contains business communication information that may not have been taught in college–information that has been accumulated over years of business experience and teaching.Anyone can read these brief tips to learn how to better communicate in business while saving the time that might have be.... -
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
Author Tim Lister , Peter Hruschka , Steve McMenamin , Tom DeMarco , James Robertson , Suzan
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2008).Adrenaline junkies, dead fish, project sluts, true believers, Lewis and Clark, template zombies . . .Most developers, testers, and managers on IT projects are pretty good at recognizing patterns of b....
Release Date 2013/07 -
What Keeps Project Managers from Managing Their Projects?
Author Michael B. Bender
This Element is an excerpt from A Manager's Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best Practices (ISBN: 9780137136902) by Michael B. Bender. Available in print and digital formats.What senior managers can do to drive more effective project execution–and w....
Release Date 2010/02 -
The Project Manager's Book of Checklists
Author Richard Newton
Managers are faced with complex tasks all the time. Completing these tasks may require setting up and running a project or on other occasions it may need a short, structured action plan. A huge amount of approaches exist, in thousands of books, to help managers comp....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Bas Vodde , Craig Larman
Lean and Agile Development for Large-Scale Products: Key Practices for Sustainable Competitive SuccessIncreasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Microsoft® Project 2010 Project Management: Real World Skills for Certification and Beyond
Author Robert Happy
The ideal on-the-job reference guide for project managers who use Microsoft Project 2010This must-have guide to using Microsoft Project 2010 is written from a real project manager's perspective and is packed with information you can use on the job. The book explore....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Author Sean Richardson , Alison Hill , Darren Hill
A practical toolkit for handling workplace conflict and difficult conversationsDealing with the Tough Stuff is the business leader's critical guide to handling difficult conversations in the workplace. Based on the science of human behaviour — both verbal and nonv....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Bonnie Biafore
Learn best practices and proven methods from project management professionals—and apply these skills as you work with Microsoft Project. In this practical guide, project management expert Bonnie Biafore shows you how to manage projects efficiently and effectively, s....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Communication Skills for Managers, Fifth Edition
Author Janis Fisher Chan
The ability to communicate clearly is the critical core competency for successful managers at all levels and in all industries. This self-study course is your guide to business communication that delivers the message?whether written, spoken, in person or via e-mail....
Release Date 2002/08 -
Author Keith Ferrazzi , Mark Goulston
Do you ever feel like you're talking to a brick wall?The first step in persuading anyone to do anything is getting them to hear you out. But whether the person is a cynical colleague, furious customer, or overwhelmed spouse, their emotional barriers may be blocking....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author Jeff Sutherland , Ken Schwaber
A radical approach to getting IT projects done faster and cheaper than anyone thinks possibleSoftware in 30 Days summarizes the Agile and Scrum software development method, which allows creation of game-changing software, in just 30 days. Projects that use it are th....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Author Garth G.F. Ward
A practical and accessible guide to managing a successful project Effective Project Management is based around an activities and action check list approach to project management. It provides a guide to the basic principles and the disciplines that managers need to ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
The Customer Education Playbook
Author Daniel Quick , Barry Kelly
Deliver maximum value to customers and clients with this blueprint to customer success In The Customer Education Playbook: How Leading Companies Engage, Convert, and Retain Customers, customer learning experts Barry Kelly and Daniel Quick explain how teaching customers to best engage ....
Release Date 2022/04