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Author Gene Fliedner
Lean is a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. This book examines these elements following a systematic, hierarchical orientation and explains their relevance for guiding....
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Author Edgar Papke
When leaders fail to confront conflict, they become the ‘biggest elephant’ in the room. In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives, and managers, more than 90 percent admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict. Show and hide mo....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Operationalizing Sustainability
Author Patrick Corsi , Pierre Massotte
This book focuses on the emergence of the “science of sustainability” and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization. The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Global Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model
Author Terence T. Burton
The book that reinvents Lean for a new generation, a new global culture, and a new benchmark of successGlobal Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model™ sets a new benchmark for the evolution of Lean and strategic improvement. The book and the ....
Release Date 2015/09 -
100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Author Susan Weinschenk
Thousands of designers, marketers, and product managers have come to rely on Susan Weinschenk’s original 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People as a “go-to book” for practical advice on how to use the latest findings in psychology and neuroscience to ....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Trend-Driven Innovation: Beat Accelerating Customer Expectations
Author Alexander Osterwalder , Delia Dumitrescu , Maxwell Luthy , David Mattin , Henry Maso
Trend-Driven InnovationBeat accelerating customer expectations.Every business leader, entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer wants to know where customers are headed. The problem? The received wisdom on how to find out is wrong.In this startling new book, the team a....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Determining Project Requirements, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
Author Hans Jonasson
Good requirements do not come from a tool, or from a customer interview. They come from a repeatable set of processes that take a project from the early idea stage through to the creation of an agreed-upon project and product scope between the customer and the devel....
Release Date 2015/09 -
PMP® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide, 9th Edition
Author Ginger Levin , J. LeRoy Ward
PMP® Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide, Ninth Edition uses self-study to help readers increase their chances of passing the PMP certification exam the first time. This spiral-bound edition includes 40 multiple-choice practice questions in each of the ten knowledge....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Training Design Basics, 2nd Edition
Author Saul Carliner
If you are designing a training program for the first time, this practical book is for you. Part of ATD’s Training Basics series, it zeroes in on how to design successful training for the face-to-face or virtual classroom. It also serves as a guide for d....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Time-Cost Optimization of Building Projects
Author Uzair Waheed
Traditional wisdom suggests that when it comes to construction projects, any effort that might be made to shorten the planned schedule will necessarily lead to increased costs. In Time-Cost Optimization of Building Projects, however, author Uzair Waheed, B.E., PMP ....
Release Date 2015/09 -
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 -
Meeting Health Information Needs Outside Of Healthcare
Author Alla Keselman , Catherine Arnott Smith
Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare addresses the challenges and ethical dilemmas concerning the delivery of health information to the general public in a variety of non-clinical settings, both in-person and via information technology, in settings....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Leveraging Business Analysis for Project Success
Author Vicki James
Only 39 percent of projects today are successful. Nearly half of the projects that fail, fail because of “poor requirements management” (PMI 2014). Leveraging Business Analysis for Project Success explores the role of the business analyst in se....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Timothy Kloppenborg , Kathryn Wells
Project management is seen as a critical skill across a broad range of disciplines. Yet most people, regardless of educational background, have never received training in how to plan, manage, and execute projects. Project Management Essentials contains tried an....
Release Date 2015/08 -
The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban
Author Ajay Reddy
Create Thriving, High-Performing Teams and Organizations with ScrumbanScrumban allows you to use Kanban as a catalyst for increasingly valuable changes to your existing software development processes, amplifying and expanding upon Scrum’s benefits. Now, there’s a de....
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Author Jay Holben
Filmmaker Jay Holben has been battling in the production trenches for most of his life. For the past 17 years, he’s chronicled his adventures in the pages of American Cinematographer, Digital Video, Videography, and TV Technology. Now, in Behind the Lens: Dispatches....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Clive Enoch
Project portfolio management (PfM) is a critically important discipline, which organizations must embrace in order to extract the maximum value from their project investments. Essentially, PfM can be defined as the translation of strategy and organizationa....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author David Scott Bernstein
We're losing tens of billions of dollars a year on broken software, and great new ideas such as agile development and Scrum don't always pay off. But there's hope. The nine software development practices in Beyond Legacy Code are designed to solve the problems f....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Jannika Björkholm , Tomas Björkholm
Modern and efficient organization that delivers resultsFind out how Kanban fits into the broader context of Agile, and get to grips with the core components of its philosophyIdentify problems and challenges in your current processes and take immediate steps to driv....
Release Date 2015/07 -
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 Mattias Skarin
Your team is stressed; priorities are unclear. You're not sure what your teammates are working on, and management isn't helping. If your team is struggling with any of these symptoms, these four case studies will guide you to project success. See how Kanban was us....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Patrick Li
Bring the power of Agile to Atlassian JIRA and run your projects efficiently with Scrum and KanbanIn DetailJIRA Agile (formerly known as GreenHopper) is a plugin that adds agile project management to any JIRA project. It allows you to visualize your existing process....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Randal Wilson
Mastering Project Time Management, Cost Control, and Quality Management gives managers powerful insights and tools for addressing the "Triple Constraints" that define virtually every project: time, cost, and quality.This book is part of a new series of seven cutting....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Author Ravi Sagar
Gain expertise in tracking project issues and managing them efficiently using JIRAIn DetailJIRA is an issue-tracking tool from Atlassian and has gained immense popularity in recent years due to its ease of use and, at the same time, its customization abilities and f....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Author Mark C. Layton
Practice an agile form of management to stop wasting time and moneyScrum For Dummies is an easy to use guide to managing the tricky transition from a traditional project management methodology to the new and most popular agile framework. As the most efficient, succ....
Release Date 2015/04 -
The Customer Trap: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake in Business
Author Andrew R. Thomas , Timothy J. Wilkinson
American business is dysfunctional. Companies of all sizes follow the mistaken belief that their products and services are best sold through mega-customers with pervasive market reach, such as Amazon and Walmart. Far too many business leaders fail to realize—until i....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Project Management for Small Projects, 2nd Edition
Author Sandra R. Rowe
Important New Tools for Managing Your Small Projects As Part of a Larger Program!The first edition of Project Management for Small Projects introduced project management processes, tools, and techniques that are scalable and adaptable to small projects. Projec....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Collaborative Project Procurement Arrangements
Author Beverley M Lloyd-Walker , Derek H T Walker
Large projects, especially in the construction and infrastructure sectors, involve collaborations of many different types, such as built-own-operate, public-private partnership, or competitive dialogue. This monograph details the authors’ research on the type....
Release Date 2015/04