Project management Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book provides the necessary tools for modern managers to help manage technology and engineering operations. The second edition adds more contemporary topics, such as Ethics, Globalization, Creativity and Innovation."—David Ben-Arieh - Kansas State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction to Management Challenges for Engineers. THE FUNCTIONS OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT. Planning. Organizing. Leading. Controlling. BUSINESS ESSENTIALS FOR ENGINEERING MANAGERS. Cost Accounting for Engineering Managers. Financial Accounting and Management for Engineering Managers. Marketing Management for Engineering Managers. ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. Engineers as Managers/Leaders. Creativity and Innovation. Ethics in Engineering Management and Workplace. Operational Excellence. Globalization. Engineering Management in the New Millennium. Appendix: Selected Engineering Management and Business Cases.

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Book SynopsisPatricia Kong helps organizations thrive in a complex world by focusing on enterprise innovation, leadership, and teams. She is a people advocate and fascinated by organizational behavior and misbehaviors. She is co-author of The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum (Addison-Wesley, 2017). Todd Miller has practical experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Software Developer, and Agile coach on a variety of technical and creative projects across a multitude of industries. He has been a professional Scrum trainer with Scrum.org since 2016. Kurt Bittner has been delivering working products in short, feedback-driven cycles for more than 40 years, and has helped many organizations do the same. He is particularly interested in helping people form strong, self-organizing, high-performance teams that deliver solutions that customers love, and helping organizations use empirical feedback to achieve customer Table of ContentsForeword by Ken Schwaber xi Foreword by Dave West xv Preface xix Introduction xxvii Chapter 1: Finding Purpose 1 Rediscovering Purpose 3 Goals 4 How Goals and Measures Influence Behaviors 7 How to Rediscover Purpose 10 Closing Satisfaction Gaps Creates Value 11 Customer-Focused Goals Enable Autonomy and Purpose 14 Improving Strategic Goals 17 Ask “Why?” to Uncover the Real Objective 17 Refocus “Internal” Goals on What Customers Need to Experience 19 Think About How You Will Measure Progress Toward Your Vision 20 What to Watch For 21 Moving Forward 22 Chapter 2: Using Empiricism to Progress Toward Goals 23 Understanding Value 25 Progressing Toward Goals in a Series of Small Steps 27 Taking Small Steps Toward Goals 29 Steering Toward Goals 32 Adapting Goals 34 Adapting Tactics 36 The Real Purpose of Goals Is to Foster Conversations 36 Losing the Plot and Finding It Again 37 What to Watch For 38 Moving Forward 39 Chapter 3: Becoming (More) Effective 41 Value Is Essential, but Frequency Matters Too 42 It Is Not Delivery Speed That Is Important; It Is Feedback Speed 44 While Focusing on Speed, Do Not Lose Sight of Value 45 Speed Is Not Enough; Teams Must Also Be Effective 46 Too Many Things at Once 48 Where Should Teams Start? 50 Beware the Efficiency Trap 51 Balancing Speed and Effectiveness 52 Cutting Corners: Sometimes Necessary, Sometimes Fatal 53 What to Watch For 55 Moving Forward 56 Chapter 4: Managing and Overcoming Expectations 59 People Who Largely Seek to Validate Expectations Are Often Disappointed 60 Transforming “Bad News” into Just “News” 61 Letting Go of Expectations 64 Expectations Can Be Stubbornly Held 65 Replacing “Meeting Expectations” with “Seeking Goals” 68 Stakeholders and Transparency 69 How to Define and Categorize Stakeholders 70 Escaping the “Echo Chamber” 73 Diverse Perspectives Counter “Groupthink” 76 What to Watch For 77 Moving Forward 78 Chapter 5: Separating the Signal from the Noise 81 Identifying Signals 82 Interpreting Evidence from Signals 84 Dampening the Noise 85 Bias Creates Noise 88 The Customer Is Not Always Right 90 Objectifying Narratives 92 Getting Unstuck 94 Making Decisions 96 What to Watch For 97 Moving Forward 98 Chapter 6: Applying EBM at the Product Level 99 Mind the (Satisfaction) Gap 100 When You Find Yourself in a Hole, Stop Digging 101 Not All Ideas Are Valuable 103 Replacing False Certainty with Experimentation 104 Using Strategic Goal Mapping to Form Experiments 106 Products Are Vehicles for Running Experiments About Value 108 Sometimes Teams Lose the Thread and Need a Reminder 110 Running Experiments and Measuring Results 111 Inspecting Results and Adapting Next Steps 114 Customer Experience Is Not Always About More Features 117 Sometimes You Must Say No 120 What to Watch For 121 Moving Forward 122 Chapter 7: Applying EBM at the Portfolio Level 123 Maximizing Output Does Not Maximize Value 124 The Problems Start with Misfocused Goals 126 Revenue and Profit Are Important, But They Are Poor Goals 127 Reconnecting Investments with Customer Outcomes 128 You Can't Have It All at Once 129 How to Measure Outcomes 130 You Do Not Know What You Do Not Know 131 How to Choose Between Bets 132 Make Small Bets 133 Kill Bad Ideas as Quickly as Possible 135 Propose Experiments 138 Evaluate Proposals 139 Make Sure All the Cards Are on the Table 140 Keep Teams Intact, and Bring Them Work 140 Separating Budgeting from Funding 141 Run Experiments 141 Evaluate Progress Toward Goals 141 What to Watch For 144 Moving Forward 145 Chapter 8: Applying EBM at the Organizational Level 147 Why Change Efforts Fail 148 To Initiate Change, Give People a “Why” 149 Assess Where the Organization Is Today 150 Empowerment Takes Trust, Transparency, and Time 152 Benefits of Empowering Teams 153 Measuring Empowerment 154 Growing Empowerment 155 Inverting the Organization to Support Empowerment 156 Reducing Context Switching 157 Growing Self-Sufficient Teams 158 Aligning Supporting Departments 160 Setting and Adapting Goals 163 Most Goals Can—and Should—Change 163 What to Watch For 164 Moving Forward 165 Index 167

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Book SynopsisIn our tumultuous times, understanding and achieving resilience have never been more important. Some organizations have resilience in their DNA. They possess the agility of mind, culture, and organization to survive and thrive no matter what is put in their way.Building Resilient Organizations is focused on identifying what sets these enterprises apart, exploring the nature of resilience for organizations. Along the way, we discover some inspiring global examples of resilient projects in practice and some novel thinking for leaders to consider about what it takes to be resilient over the long haul.With contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world, Building Resilient Organizations will enable you and your organization to further develop resilience as a muscle in your organization.

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Book SynopsisProductivity and Reliability-Based Maintenance Management, Second Edition is intended to provide a strong yet practical foundation for understanding the concepts and practices of total productive maintenance (TPM) management—a proactive asset and resource management strategy that is based on enhancing equipment reliability and overall enterprise productivity. The book is intended to serve as a fundamental yet comprehensive educational and practical guide for departing from the wait-failure-emergency repair cycle that has plagued too many industries, instead advancing a proactive and productive maintenance strategy. It is not intended to be a how-to-fix-it manual, but rather emphasizes the concept of a world-class maintenance management philosophy to avoid the failure in the first place. Universities, junior and community colleges, and technical institutes as well as professional, corporate, and industrial training programs can benefit by incorporating these fundamental concepts in their technical and managerial curricula. The book can serve as a powerful educational tool for students as well as for maintenance professionals and managers. In addition to updating the previous historical and statistical data and tables, the second edition expands on and adds to case studies based on current maintenance-related events. Several numerical examples and explanations are revised in order to enhance the clarity of the methodology. The second edition introduces the readers to the state-of-the-art concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors, and their application to maintenance and TPM. Table of Contents About the Author Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Statistical Applications 3 Preventive Maintenance 4 Predictive Maintenance 5 Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation 6 Implementing TPM 7 TPM Implementation and Process Improvement Tools 8 Facility Maintenance Projects Planning and Control 9 Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Case in Point: CMMS and ISO/QS Certification Solutions and Answers to Selected Questions Index

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Book Synopsis Ken Schwaber is president of Advanced Development Methods (ADM), a company dedicated to improving the software development practice. He is an experienced software developer, product manager, and industry consultant. Schwaber initiated the process management product revolution of the early 1990's and also worked with Jeff Sutherland to formulate the initial versions of the Scrum development process. Mike Beedle, an experienced software development practitioner, is the founder and CEO of e-Architects, Inc., a management and technical consulting company that helps its clients develop software in record time. Beedle has contributed to thousands of software projects for the last 20 years, and has used, recommended, and guided others to implement Scrum since 1995. Trade Review"Agile development methods are key to the future of flexible software systems. Scrum is one of the vanguards of the new way to buy and manage software development when business conditions are changing. This book distills both the theory and practice and is essential reading for anyone who needs to cope with software in a volatile world." — Martin Fowler, industry consultant and CTO, ThoughtWorks "Most executives today are not happy with their organization's ability to deliver systems at reasonable cost and timeframes. Yet, if pressed, they will admit that they don't think their software developers are not competent. If it's not the engineers, then what is it that prevents fast development at reasonable cost? Scrum gives the answer to the question and the solution to the problem. — Alan Buffington, industry consultant, former Present, Fidelity Systems Company Table of Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Great Ready for Scrum! 3. Scrum Practices. 4. Applying Scrum. 5. Why Scrum? 6. Why Does Scrum Work? 7. Advanced Scrum Applications. 8. Scrum and the Organization. 9. Scrum Values.

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Book SynopsisJurgen Wolff is the author of Your Writing Coach (Nicholas Brealey Publishing), Do Something Different (Virgin Books), and Successful Scriptwriting (Writers Digest Press, with Kerry Cox). He's also written many articles, including a personal development column for the Times Educational Supplement.  He teaches workshops on personal development, time management, creativity, and writing around the world. Jurgen has lectured at the University of Southern California, for the Skyros Institute, the Academy for Chief Executives, and for Fremantle Media, the London School of Journalism, the European Media programme, and at private workshops in the United States, England, Spain, Germany, Denmark, France, South Africa, Belgium, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Jurgen is a Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner and a certified hypnotherapist and Time Line therapist. He is the author of our upcoming title, Creativity Now as well as, Series Editor for the For Entrepreneurs seriTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Bob Cochran, co-creator of 24 vii About the author ix Introduction How creating focus will change your life xi Part 1 Finding your focus 1 How to focus on your vital 20% 2 How to focus on your first goals Part 2 Your focus strategies 35 3 How to focus your time patterns for success 4 How to overcome the obstacles to focus 5 How to focus on what already works 6 How to (finally) beat procrastination Part 3 Your focus tools 93 7 How to use the Alter Ego strategy 8 How to manage other people 9 How to focus your language for extraordinary results 10 How to create information focus 11 How to conquer the paper mountain 12 How to tame the email monster 13 How to master meetings and networking Part 4 Putting it all together 181 14 How to deal with deadlines and multiple projects 15 How to maintain your new found focus 16 The goals breakthrough experience 17 How to put it all together to reach all your goals

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study guide delivers complete coverage of every topic on the CompTIA Project+ examThis fully updated self-study guide and professional resource shows how to successfully manage projects and prepare for the challenging CompTIA Project+ exam. CompTIA Project+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exam PK0-005) walks you through each step of the project management process, covering critical strategies for on-time and within-budget projects. Youâll get complete explanations of every objective on the CompTIA Project+ exam along with end-of-chapter summaries, quizzes, and exercises that reinforce key points.Coverage includes: Initiating the project Developing project plans Working with management Managing project scope Creating the budget Building a project plan Organizing a project team Managing teams Implementing the project plan Revising the project plan

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Book SynopsisChrister Holloman is an experienced digital business change consultant. He is the CEO and cofounder of Divido (http://divido.com/), a fast-growing technology start-up in the process of changing the old school financial services sector. Credited as One of London's Most Influential Individuals Within New Media by The Evening Standard, he is often invited to write for The Guardian, Sky News and GQ about how organisations can make the most of opportunities presented by new technologies. Christer is the author of the The Social Media MBA series (Wiley).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword A. Retail Truths 1. Some Thing Never Change 1.1 Expert Commentary: From Bricks to Clicks 1.2 Becoming Omni-Channel 1.3 Expert Commentary: John Lewis Move to Mobile 1.4 Expert Commentary: Mobile Shopping Opportunity 1.5 Case Study: Graze.com 1.6 Deep Dive: Omni-Communications 2. Getting Technology To Work For You 2.1 Deep Dive: Importance of Speed 2.2 Case Study: Watchfinder B. Attracting More Customers 3. Understanding Your Demographics 3.1 Expert Commentary: Mapping the Customer Journey 3.2 Case Study: Thomas Cook 4. Starting To Use Social Media and PR 4.1 Deep Dive: From Social Listening to Predicting 4.2 Case Study: Bjorn Borg C. Selling More 5. Presenting Products & Services Online 5.1 Case Study: The Board Basement 5.2 Reducing Shopping Cart Abandonment 5.3 Case Study: STA Travel 6. The Check-Out Journey 6.1 Expert Commentary: Make It Easy To Buy 6.2 Case Study: Carpet Underlay Shop D. Surprising Customer Service 7. Make Your Brand, Your Customers’ 7.1 Expert Commentary: Bazaarvoice 7.2 Case Study: Gopak 7.3 Expert Commentary: Authentic Customer Dialogue 7.4 Case Study: Grabble.com Getting Mobile Right 8. Deep Dive: Global Payment Alternatives 8.1 Payment Checklist E. Key Opportunities in the Coming Year 9. Expert Commentary: Expanding Internationally 9.1 Deep Dive: Selling to Chinese Consumers 9.2 Case Study: Vivabarefoot 10. Inventory Management 11 Delivery Delight 11.1 Deep Dive: Packaging 12. Beefing up Security Hall of Fame Index

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Book SynopsisApply the industrial engineering science of invention and assembly to how software is described, planned, and built, allowing you to be free to flex your practices according to your needs, putting principle over habit and rules.Reading about Agile practices is like reading diet advice.Table of Contents· Introduction · Prologue · Section 1: Agile Codex Theory Chapter 1: The Codex Principles Application (samples of principles in action) Chapter 2: The Agile Principles Application (samples of principles in action) Chapter 3: Putting them Together Education to Agreement (a specific type of collaboration) Low Overhead Detailed Auditing Quick and Safe Deliveries Many Quality Gates The Importance of Dependencies Chapter 4: From Invention to Assembly Line Historical development of the assembly line Evolving from hardware and things to software and information · Section 2: Agile Codex Practices Chapter 5: Team Functions Chapter 6: Software Development LifeCycle SDLC in Industry Phases Constructing the Codex The Science of Risk Mitigation Flexibility How SDLC Length Affects Practices Chapter 7: Building Blocks Planned Release Epic User Story Bug Chapter 8: Workflow Planning Execution Release Chapter 9: Example · Conclusion

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Book SynopsisManaging projects across an organisation is complex. This book guides you through each twist and turn in the project lifecycle using Project System in SAP S/4HANA. Start by setting up the master data that project management depends on. Then configure and run planning functions for project logistics and financials.

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Book Synopsis"This is a must-read for bosses and subordinates alike, as it exposes our flaws but teaches us how we can work together to achieve our common goals."--Ellen Coulter, President, The Advantage Software CompanyWhat do you do when the biggest threat to your project is your boss? It''s not that your boss is out to get you. In fact, bosses generally mean well. But clueless leadership from a well-intentioned boss can sometimes cause more damage than a criminal mastermind tying your project to the railroad tracks.The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up provides refreshingly practical and candid insight into the best practices and techniques that project managers have successfully used for decades to manage a wide variety of senior-level stakeholders--ranging from perfectly competent and pleasant to downright dysfunctional and inept. While managing up is an incredibly valuable skill for virtually any type of boss (not just the difficult ones), the book includes recommendations for managing six particularly challenging--and common--types of senior leaders. They are the bombastic Tornado, who takes over meetings without realizing it; the Wishful Thinker, who regularly asks the impossible; the Clueless Chameleon, who can''t quite decide what he or she really wants (but still holds you responsible for delivering it); the MIA Boss, who is just not around enough; the Meddlesome Micromanager, who hovers and insists you complete a task his or her way; and the Naked Emperor, who falls in love with his or her own crazy ideas. Brownlee also offers basic techniques to use with any boss, even a great one. This book is not just for professionals seeking to enhance their workplace effectiveness but also for senior leaders interested in addressing their blind spots and coaching others toward a more collaborative, results-focused leadership approach.

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Book SynopsisThe perfect starting point for successful project management, Project Management Fundamentals offers a solid foundation in the basics of the discipline. Using a step-by-step approach and conventional project management (PM) terminology, this accessible commonsense guide focuses on how essential PM methods, tools and techniques can be adapted for use on any project and put into place immediately. New material in this thoroughly revised and updated second edition includes an in-depth discussion of agile project management and its use in real-life situations, and a new appendix on project communications and social networking. You will also find detailed explanations of the unique factors involved in managing service projects and expanded coverage of the triple constraints in PM, going beyond scope, schedule and cost to cover quality, resources and risks. Filled with practical examples, along with detailed sections on risk management, maturity models, virtual teams and IT projects, this book will help you successfully manage projects of any size or level of complexity.

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Book SynopsisOrganizations continue to experience project issues associated with poor performance on requirements-related activities. This guide will give you the tools you need to excel in requirements development and management — components of the larger field of business analysis and a critical competence for project, program and portfolio management. Requirements Management: A Practice Guide is a bridge between A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), which speaks to requirements development and management from a high-level perspective, and Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide, which describes requirements development and management at a detailed and practical level. This practice guide is the middle ground, offering project managers, program managers, teams members and stakeholders the opportunity to learn more about the requirements process.

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Book SynopsisPMI’s latest foundational standard, The Standard for Organizational Project Management (OPM), expands upon the popular Implementing Organizational Project Management: A Practice Guide, published in 2014. This newly-created standard is a result of survey feedback that revealed acceptance of the approach and increasing interest in an expanded version.OPM is defined as the integration of people, knowledge, and processes, supported by tools across all functional domains of the organization.The approach further advances an organization’s performance by developing and linking portfolio, program, and project management principles and practices with organizational enablers (e.g., structural, cultural, technological, and human resource practices) and business processes to support strategic objectives.OPM helps organizations deliver value through the following principles: Aligning strategy Consistent execution and delivery Cross-functional collaboration Adding value to the organization Continuous training Although useful for any organization that is seeking to better meet its strategic objectives, this standard is particularly beneficial for organizations that do not have a unified project management approach.

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Book SynopsisBenefits realization is the common thread that runs from organizational strategy through project deliverables that contribute benefits. Yet, according to PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession Report: Success in Disruptive Times, only one in three organizations report high benefits realization maturity. This practice guide provides a comprehensive look at the topic of benefits realization in of portfolio, program, and project management and will help you tackle this important topic and drive more successful outcomes and better strategic alignment in your organization.Inside this practice guide you will find: • Standardized definitions for benefits realization, benefits realization management and associated benefits realization terms.• The core principles of benefits realization• The benefits realization management life cycle from organizational mission, vision, and strategy through project deliverables and success measurement, and how it contributes to the expected benefits and value that the organization intends to realize.• A framework and guidance to help practitioners manage benefits realization in organizational project management and portfolio, program, and project management.As with all PMI standards and publications, this practice guide also aligns with our other standards including: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)® – Sixth Edition; The Standard for Program Management – Fourth Edition; and The Standard for Portfolio Management – Fourth Edition.

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Book SynopsisThe Practice Standard for Scheduling – Third Edition provides the latest thinking regarding good and accepted practices in the area of scheduling for a project. Aligned with the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, this updated practice standard expounds on the information contained in Section 6 on Project Schedule Management of the PMBOK® Guide.In this new edition of the practice standard, you will learn to identify the elements of a good schedule model, its purpose, use, and benefits. You will also discover what is required to produce and maintain a good schedule model. Also included in the Third Edition: Description of scheduling Definition of schedule model Uses and benefits of the schedule model Definitions of key terms and steps for scheduling Detailed descriptions of scheduling components Guidance on the principles and concepts of schedule model creation and use Descriptions of schedule model principles and concepts Differentiations in schedule model, schedule model instances, and presentations Detailed descriptions of critical path method, critical chain, program evaluation and review technique (PERT), rolling wave planning, and Monte Carlo simulation Uses and applications of adaptive project management approaches, such as agile, in scheduling Guidance and information on generally accepted good practices associated with the planning, development, maintenance, communication, and reporting processes of an effective schedule model

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Book SynopsisThe Standard for Program Management – Fourth Edition differs from prior editions by focusing on the principles of good program management. Program activities have been realigned to program lifecycle phases rather than topics, and the first section was expanded to address the key roles of program manager, program sponsor and program management office. It has also been updated to better align with PMI's Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects: A Practice Guide.

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Book SynopsisA Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide is the go-to resource for project management practitioners. Over the past few years, the project management profession has significantly evolved due to emerging technology, new approaches and rapid market changes. Reflecting this evolution, The Standard for Project Management enumerates 12 principles of project management and the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition is structured around eight project performance domains. Both the standard and the guide reflect the wide range of development approaches that lead to value delivery. This edition is designed to address practitioners’ current and future needs and to help them be more proactive, innovative and nimble in enabling desired project outcomes. This edition of the PMBOK® Guide: Reflects the full range of development approaches (predictive, adaptive, hybrid, etc.) Provides an entire section devoted to tailoring the development approach and processes Includes an expanded list of models, methods, and artifacts Focuses on not just delivering project outputs but also enabling outcomes; and Integrates with PMIstandards+ for information and standards application content based on project type, development approach, and industry sector.

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Book SynopsisTransformation is no longer a short-lived initiative. It is not a program. It is not linear. Instead, the world’s leading organizations now embrace transformation as a a challenging, stretching, exciting and essential constant in their lives. Welcome to the age of perpetual transformation. Now, the Brightline Initiative and Thinkers50 have collaborated to bring together some of the world’s leading minds on the theme of perpetual transformation. Curated by Thinkers50 cofounder Stuart Crainer and introduced by PMI COO Michael DePrisco, Perpetual Transformation features ideas and insights from Didier Bonnet, Susie Kennedy, Kaihan Krippendorff, Jeffrey Kuhn, Habeeb Mahaboob, Tony O’Driscoll,Martin Reeves, Lars Fæste, Tom Deegan, April Rinne, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, Gabriele Rosani, Paolo Cervini, Robin Speculand, Behnam Tabrizi and a host of others.

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Book SynopsisThis is an update and expansion upon PMI's popular reference, The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management. Risk Management addresses the fact that certain events or conditions may occur with impacts on project, program, and portfolio objectives. This standard will: identify the core principles for risk management; describe the fundamentals of risk management and the environment within which it is carried out; define the risk management life cycle; and apply risk management principles to the portfolio, program, and project domains within the context of an enterprise risk management approach It is primarily written for portfolio, program, and project managers, but is a useful tool for leaders and business consumers of risk management, and other stakeholders.

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Book SynopsisHundreds of organizations around the world have already benefited from Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). Disciplined Agile® (DA™) is the only comprehensive tool kit available for guidance on building high-performance agile teams and optimizing your way of working (WoW). As a hybrid of the leading agile, lean, and traditional approaches, DA provides hundreds of strategies to help you make better decisions within your agile teams, balancing self-organization with the realities and constraints of your unique enterprise context. 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 that still supports a consistent governance strategy for leadership; and Makes a perfect study guide for Disciplined Agile certification. Why “fail fast” (as the agile industry likes to recommend) when you can learn quickly on your journey to high performance? With this book, you can make better decisions based upon proven, context-based strategies, leading to earlier success and better outcomes.

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Book SynopsisThis colourful poster supplements Process Groups: A Practice Guide. This poster is intended to help you identify the 49 project management processes and their associated Process Groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. This attractive poster provides the new look of the project management processes that are considered to be good practice on most projects, most of the time.

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Book SynopsisNeed help on how to get work done using traditional project management practices? Then, Process Groups: A Practice Guide is the right supplemental guide for you. This important companion to, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), offers useful and practical guidance for a predictive approach to project management practices. This practice guide influences your way of working, ensuring you are equipped with the information you need to succeed in this changing profession.What's in the guide? You'll find a process-based project management approach for guiding your projects, aligning methodologies, and evaluating project management capabilities. This guide uses a popular Process Groups model that will help you with: Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring and Controlling Closing In addition, you will learn about 49 processes within these five process groups along with inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs associated with those processes. This practice guide shows the processes considered good practices on most projects, most of the time.

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Book SynopsisThe Digital Transformation Playbook: What You Need to Know and Do is an indispensable resource for you and your organization as you embark on the exciting and challenging journey of digital transformation. It features insightful ideas and best practices that drive digital transformation. Contributors include leading thinkers and practitioners drawn from around the world.

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Book SynopsisProjects are traditionally seen as temporary organisations designed for unique tasks, often in contrast to the mass-producing core activities of organisations. Projects are used by the engineers as tools for solving almost any type of problem. In this book, the authors present current research in the study of practices, challenges and developments within project management. Topics discussed in this compilation include lessons learned in the role of the co-ordinator in the development of it projects; the stakeholder challenge, based on a project management of collaborative research; project management applied to lithic analysis; sustainable management team as a key element in success of project management; and the impact of project schedule adherence and rework on the duration forecast accuracy of earned value metrics.

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Book SynopsisThis book has been fully updated for the Jan 2021 PMP exam, including the all-important agile content. The PMP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try provides all the information project managers need to thoroughly prepare for & pass the test. This comprehensive study resource includes: Coverage of predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches, as well as all the processes, inputs, tools, and outputs to be tested, and insider secrets. A complete guide for the PMP certification exam also includes test tricks and tips, links to more than 60 videos with explanations of concepts, 475 practice exam questions including end of chapter quizzes, a simulated final exam, and trial access to InSite (Velociteach's e-learning portal) with an extra 100 simulated practice exam questions. As the most complete, concise, and up-to-date study resource, Andy's book cuts down on the difficulty of obtaining the PMP certification and helps candidates pass the exam on the first try.

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Book SynopsisThis is a practical guide to streamlined project management, designed for managers of small and medium-sized projects in any business. Unlike other more complex approaches to project management, this book provides a simple framework which can be applied in a wide variety of situations in companies of all sizes. By stripping out the bureaucracy and paring the management down to a minimum, Mike Watson has created a straightforward approach to managing projects which will save organisations both time and money. This is a complete project manager's toolkit, including checklists, sample forms and schematics.

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Book SynopsisThis first-ever interactive Agile Adventure is the gripping tale of an experienced team struggling with agile adoption. In this unique mashup of a business novel written in the gamebook format, you'll overcome common yet daunting challenges that come from using agile methods. As Jim, the agile coach, you'll learn to apply a range of thinking tools and techniques to real-life problems faced by teams and organizations. Find out what really works and what fails miserably from the consequences of your choices. And, unlike in the real world, if at first you don't succeed, you can make different choices until you get things right. Management is ready to disband your new agile team and outsource your project. Can you save The Dream Team? The Dream Team started their journey 18 months ago. Since then, life has become a nightmare. Progress has ground to a halt. Morale is low. Quality has become taboo. You have five days to figure out how to get the team back on track. There will be conflict and maybe tears. One thing is for sure: there will be plenty of tough decisions to make. Inspired by a classic gamebook series, this fun and interactive story has eight different endings designed to enrich and put your agile development knowledge and experience to the test. Packed with familiar scenarios an agile team faces every day, The Dream Team Nightmare offers you the chance to see what would happen if you could do things differently so you can change the way you do things for real with confidence. Combining practical team-building exercises with effective facilitation and Systems Thinking, by the end of the book you'll be ready to rescue projects in trouble, and get new projects off to a better start.

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Book SynopsisThis book equips managers and professionals with effective management tools and strategies, as well as important concepts to help them combat current challenges and problems. It provides a holistic and practical approach to lean and quality management throughout the business value chain. The author describes comprehensively how management strategies and problem-solving tools enable companies to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve the competitive advantage. This allows managers to choose the proper tool and strategy for each situation and use it effectively. A wealth of best practices, industry examples and case studies are also included.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Business Transformation and Project Management. Chapter 2. Corporate Strategic Management.- Chapter 3. Cultural Change Concepts.- Chapter 4. Leadership, Empowerment and New Work Concepts. Chapter 5. Strategic Management Tools and Excellence Models.- Chapter 6. Seven Management Tools (M7).- Chapter 7. Statistical, Quality and Resource Management Tools.- Chapter 8. Problem-Solving, Process and Idea Creation Tools.- Chapter 9. Supply Management Tools.- Chapter 10. Management Objectives, KPI and OKR.- Chapter 11. Financial Management Tools.- Chapter 12. Supply Chain Management Tools.- Chapter 13. Virtual Management and Cyber Tools.- Chapter 14. Audits and Quality Management Systems (QMS). Lean Production Tools.- Chapter 16. Kaizen: Continuous Improvements in small Steps.- Chapter 17. Waste and Value-added Management Tools.

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Book SynopsisWhen was the last time you felt stressed and exhausted at work? Chances are your answer to that question is "not too long ago". As the author realized from first-hand experience, even well-prepared, hard-working, intelligent people can feel the strain of project management. This book presents a comprehensive set of approaches, tips and techniques that enable you to make projects more effective, successful and enjoyable. Leading Impactful Teams is a lively exploration of the "lenses" of project management – Scope, Prioritisation, Time, Cost, Quality, Risks, Team and Stakeholders – that will enable the reader to develop a "sixth sense" for potential issues that could derail their project. Replete with over 50 imaginative illustrations to explain the insights and practices that are packed into every page, the stories and ideas in this book go way past the theories and bring the reality of projects to life. It will help you understand how to make your project a success and avoid unnecessary complications. This is a powerful book for anyone involved in project management, be it at work or outside of it. James Louttit shares his refreshing, engaging and human approach, to provide you with a practical toolkit to help you and your team deliver great project outcomes with minimum stress and maximum fun.

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Book SynopsisProject management book for students and professionals in engineering and management. Covers decision-making, methodologies, and models for successful project implementation. Emphasizes human factors, offers examples and practice problems. Includes references for further research.

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Book SynopsisThe targeted readership of this book is project management professionals and scholars who are seeking to gain insights into the perquisites of project success. Therefore, this book was written with the following goals in mind: (1) To provide the readers with a carefully selected collection of real-life project cases from various industries and businesses. The cases give a good picture of how projects and project management are performed in Norway. (2) By building on contingency thinking, to present new insights about project success gained from analysing the cases collectively. These new insights include classification of project success factors based on project characteristics, and they also suggest that soft factors such as trust, commitment, loyalty and openness are imperative to ensure project success. (3) By using specific situations, problems, and approaches from these cases, to help communicate a more general idea, and to explain terms from project management literature that are important to understand the context and the meaning of these new insights. The study is peer-reviewed and presented as an academic text.

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Book SynopsisThis book combines a literature study and the results of a longitudinal case study from the oil and gas sector the Ivar Aasen project to explore the notion of learning in project-based organizations. First, readers are provided with a thorough examination of previous research on project learning, which is presented in structured and comprehensible format. The author explores the circular relationship between learning and performance in projects and identifies the means and attitudes required to support this circular relationship both within projects and between projects. The second part of the book has a narrower focus, namely on improving the institutionalized level of learning in project-based organizations. The empirical findings are drawn from the longitudinal case study and provide some useful insights into learning in a complex and demanding environment characterized by continuous changes, extreme time pressure, a multiplicity of stakeholders, tremendous financial impact, and market uncertainty. The study is peer-reviewed and presented as an academic text.

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Book SynopsisHow does one get things done? How does one make a dream a reality or carry a plan through to completion? Many of us seem to have unrealized goals or incomplete plans and many of us face tasks that appear overwhelming, even impossible to achieve. This is true not only of individuals, but of companies and even countries. History is filled with failed projects. In examining the subject of organization, L. Ron Hubbard developed an enormous body of technology to ensure the success of any group. In doing so, he also provided a solution to the most common of failings: the lack of ability to execute plans. In this section, you will discover how to attain literally any goal, large or small. Plans can be carried through to fruition, but a number of vital steps must be taken, one after the other. You'll learn what these steps are and how to apply them to anything - a personal ambition, a family, a group, a business and more. You'll learn that your dreams can become real.

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Book SynopsisA revolutionary approach to marketing, based on neuroscience and psychology, that will transform your business forever. Mention the word “marketing,” and every executive cringes. For decades, we’ve been told that marketing success is hidden behind secret strategies, hacks, and platforms promising incredible results. Yet those results never come, and business owners around the world are left with lost money and lost time—worse off than where they started. In Marketing Built by Love, Daniel Bussius asserts, with compelling support from academic research, neuroscience, psychology, and over a decade of rigorous real-world testing, that there are four indispensable pillars to marketing success—pillars based on one reality of marketing that will never change: your audience is human. Whether you’re a small business owner, marketer, or executive, this book will teach you: • How to mimic the human experience to cultivate customer loyalty • The four vital components every foundational marketing plan needs • How to align your marketing with the five science-based stages of human relationships • How to implement these strategies in a proven marketing framework Marketing Built by Love will reshape the way you think about marketing and how you communicate with your customers, giving you the framework and strategies you need to create repeatable, consistent marketing success today, tomorrow, and decades into the future. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to thrive in today’s competitive business landscape.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding project endings is a significant part of project management, yet there is relatively little work published in this important area. This book addresses the gap, focusing on the successful management of project endings, showing how to plan for the ending of a project, how to create ending competencies, and in particular, how to successfully manage relations with different stakeholders of a project as it is coming to an end. Havila and Salmi use a real-life case in the airline industry to show how the successful ending project was achieved and in doing so portray ideas and experiences not typically considered in the field. Through the case discussion, the complexity of the process is unveiled and the achievement of success for all parties is explained. The book portrays three key success factors: ending competencies, to be developed both at the organizational and individual levels; efficient management of the business network around the ending project; and involvemTrade Review"This book looks at the successful management of the premature end of one project. It uses an excellent case study and as the layers are peeled away the complexity is unveiled and the achievement of success for all parties is demonstrated. Although not couched in project management speak this is an admirable adjunct to the conventional project and programme management texts and is a recommended read for aspiring and practicing project managers." Margaret Greenwood (University of the West of England, UK)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Approach to Projects1. Ending a Project: More than a Project Closure2. Network Context of the Project3. Project Ending Strategy4. Project-Ending Competence5. Managing the Network Context of an Ending Project6. Conclusions: How to be Successful in Project Ending

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