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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 -
Project Stakeholder Management
Author Anna Lund Jepsen , Pernille Eskerod
Carrying out a project as planned is not a guarantee for success. Projects may fail because project management does not take the requirements, wishes and concerns of stakeholders sufficiently into account. Projects can only be successful through contributions from ....
Release Date 2016/12 -
HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series)
Author Harvard Business Review
MEET YOUR GOALS—ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.How do you rein in the scope of your project when you’ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their....
Release Date 2013/01 -
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 -
Selling Project Management to Senior Executives: Framing the Moves that Matter
Author Pamela Buckle , Kam Jugdev , Connie Delisle , Janice Thomas
"Why is it so difficult to sell project management to senior executives?" and "How do you get them on board?" are the main questions being answered in this pertinent book by Thomas, et al. After years of research, the authors report their findings in Phases I and I....
Release Date 2002/02 -
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 -
Shortcuts to success - Project management in the real world
Author Elizabeth Harrin
Anything from an office move to the Olympic Games can be termed a project, and 97 per cent of successful projects are led by an experienced project manager. Presenting over 250 years of professional project management experience in a highly accessible format, this e....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author Patrick Li
Learn how to track bugs and issues, and manage your software development projects with JIRALearn how to set up JIRA for software developmentEffectively manage and handle software bugs and issuesIncludes updated JIRA content as well as coverage of the popular Green....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Leveraging Business Analysis for Project Success, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
Author Vicki James
Only 39 percent of projects today are successful. Nearly half of the projects that fail do so because of “poor requirements management” (PMI 2014). Leveraging Business Analysis for Project Success, Second Edition explores the role of the business analyst in setting....
Release Date 2018/10 -
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 -
Strategic Needs Analysis—Instructional Systems Development
Author Sally Sparhawk
This issue discusses the six steps involved in defining a client's training needs in relation to the organization's overall business goals. Offers techniques to use at each point in the analysis process plus sample questions used for collecting data.
Release Date 1999/04 -
Quality Software Project Management
Author Linda I. Safer , Donald F. Shafer , Robert T. Futrell
The practical handbook of software project management-by practitioners, for practitioners!Quality Software Project Management is the practical, start-to-finish project management resource for every software professional-experienced managers and developers moving int....
Release Date 2002/01 -
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 -
PMP Exam Cram: Project Management Professional, 5/e
Author Michael G. Solomon
The Publisher regrets that the CD/DVD content for this title cannot be made available Online>PMI's PMP certification is the world's leading project management credential: indispensable for everyone who intends to succeed in the field. PMI has recently revamped ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Harjit Singh
To manage projects, you must not only control schedules and costs: you must also manage growing operational uncertainty. Today’s powerful analytics tools and methods can help you do all of this far more successfully. In Project Management Analytics, Harjit Singh sh....
Release Date 2015/11 -
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 Goals of Projects and Project Management
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.Projects in context: What should your projects aim to achieve, and how can ....
Release Date 2010/02 -
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 -
Essentials of Knowledge Management
Author Bryan Bergeron
Reader-friendly survey of Knowledge Management (KM): a business optimization strategy that identifies, selects, organizes, distills, and packages information essential to the business of a company. Provides best practices in knowledge management, examines enabling t....
Release Date 2003/05 -
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 -
The AMA Handbook of Project Management, 3rd Edition
Author Jeannette CABANIS-BREWIN , Paul C. DINSMORE
A comprehensive reference presenting the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master, The AMA Handbook of Project Management compiles essays and advice from the field’s top professionals. Compatible with the most recent edition of the Proje....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Program Management, 2nd Edition
Author Michel Thiry
Program management (PgM) is fast developing as the essential link between strategy and projects and as a vehicle for organizational change. It offers the means to manage groups of projects with a common business purpose in an integrated and effective way. The Sec....
Release Date 2016/11 -
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