Project Leadership

This guide shows listeners how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Becoming a Boardroom Star is designed to offer practical advice and insights to directors who want to shine in the boardroom - earning the genuine esteem of their peers, the respect of senior management, and most importantly, adding real value for stakeholders. Not only is it brimming with terrific ideas to help you raise your boardroom game and avoid common pitfalls, it’s fun to listen to - a refreshing take on the sometimes stodgy world of governance.

When a manager is pressed to find a project manager for an important client, he looks to Rhett Sero, our to-be hero. He introduces Rhett to Heda Heldenmacher, a noted project management consultant. Designed to increase success, this book is for accidental and new project managers, beginning project management learners, and those exploring project management careers or looking for a refresher. Told in the form of a business fable, concepts are put in everyday terms and stories make it more memorable.

A team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service. Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been categorized to make it easy to find and implement when you need it most. You’ll learn how and where to start, when to bet big, how to invest, when to play the long game, what to communicate, and much more.

Si desea obtener los increíbles beneficios que Lean podría proporcionarle, continúe leyendo...¿Desea que su empresa mejore? ¿Desea que su empresa funcione de manera adecuada con menores pérdidas? Si respondió de manera afirmativa a cualquiera de estas preguntas, Lean fue escrita para ayudarle. Lean es una práctica comercial que eliminará las pérdidas en su empresa mientras mejora los procesos que está utilizando actualmente.

Launch your ERP the right way. The concept of an ERP system—where all of your company’s software talks with each other—is pretty amazing. But sometimes, launching one into your ecosystem can be treacherous. And why wouldn’t it be? You only update your ERP once every ten to fifteen years, so there’s often nobody at your organization that’s been through one, much less two, who could show you the way. Mistakes are bound to happen, but the benefits are manifold. How do you cross that chasm? First, you get the experience you need, and in this case it’s through Evan Schwartz.

Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Lead Successful Projects, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs. Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.

Companies small and large are initiating AI projects, investing vast sums of money on software, developers, and data scientists. Too often, these AI projects focus on technology at the expense of actionable or tangible business results, resulting in scattershot results and wasted investment. Succeeding with AI sets out a blueprint for AI projects to ensure they are predictable, successful, and profitable. It’s filled with practical techniques for running data science programs that are cost effective and focused on the right business goals.

Sometimes people dive into new projects because they really want to make some money or to "get something going". They put pressure on themselves to start a project mainly for the sake of trying to create some forward momentum. While forward momentum can be a beautiful thing, I would actually recommend against this approach. Usually when I see people try to motivate themselves like this, their projects fizzle out.

¿Usted siempre quiso ser un gran director de proyectos, capaz de manejar los proyectos como una brisa? ¿Pero no puede encontrar la mejor manera de hacerlo? Este libro puede cambiar las cosas para usted... ¡Siga leyendo! Probablemente le frustra que los proyectos no salgan como usted desea. Probablemente ha intentado solución tras solución, sin resultados buenos o eficientes. ¿Quiere cambiar las cosas y cambiar a una forma mucho más eficiente y eficaz de gestionar sus proyectos?

Have you ever tried your hand at software development only to find out that it’s much harder than you prepared for? Not only do you have to make sure that your skills are at par with everybody else, but there is also the matter of coordinating with everyone involved in that project. And with collaboration comes the potential for complexity.

Handling a project in a company may become difficult if you do not follow these basic principles and techniques to keep everything aligned in order to complete a project on time. Agile Project Management helps you to complete projects efficiently and effectively before the deadline. In this audiobook, you will be able to learn all the different aspects of the agile project management life cycle, which is explained step-by-step.

Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine. This third edition has been updated to align with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and provides new tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes. In addition, there is new material on agile project management and on the essential leadership skills for small-project managers.

Reviews “Simplifies game-changing concepts from the tech industry, bringing them to life with tangible examples and making them applicable to all industries and organisations. It is an impactful and accessible book full of practical tips that will have immediate and significant impact. It’s refreshing and inspiring to see that values of the author coming through so strongly, and the emphasis on personal leadership and self improvement is empowering.” -- Claire Fox, Chief Operating Officer UNICEF UK “This book was a joy to read. Ines has a wonderful style of writing and uses stories,...

The purpose of this book is to take you through the stages of learning about project management, expectations and requirements of the job, the qualities of a good project manager, and the basic principles of project management. Some of these principles include time management, cost and budget, incorporating strategies in to the scope of the project, reporting to upper management or the CEO, and working with unmotivated or difficult people.

You have to know your team before you can motivate them, and you have to motivate them before you can manage them. In this book are foolproof techniques to make sure your team connects with you, each other, and everyone they need to get the job done. After all, a team should be more than the sum of its parts - and it’s up to the project manager to provide the glue that holds it all together.

Writing a book is hard! There are so many details to handle, and not everything can be done in order, one thing at a time. How can an author juggle so many things without having a crisis? By using Project Management for Writers. Project management is a process and set of skills, tools, and techniques used to accomplish even massive undertakings by every successful company, including NASA. Getting to the moon was a big project, wouldn’t you say?

Many companies try to save money and underestimate the importance of project management. You know better than anyone else that project management is more than just quickly briefing your team during work. Even startups with small budgets invest in a project manager (PM) because it's no longer a secret that a skilled project manager can save companies 28 times more money since their output is more reliable.

Do you want to launch your project management career? This Beginner's Guide will help you master the project management and soft skills the pros use that make them stand out and successfully manage projects. Imagine starting your project management career with an edge over your competition. Whichever methodology you use, Waterfall, Agile, or other - soft skills will give you an advantage.