Project Leadership

UX Management Methods is a guide for how to lead your UX team to greatness. Learn proven methods for hiring, managing, motivating, and aligning your UX team. Use these insights to focus your team with a road map of key deliverables, present actionable findings to stakeholders, and measure your team's success and return on investment with analytics. If you want to sharpen your user experience leadership skills and build a strong team of talented experts, then you can begin learning UX management methods today.

Knowledge Café is a process for creating, exchanging, and optimizing knowledge, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.

Seventy-five percent of organizations rank leadership skills as most important for successful projects - the Project Management Institute. You can make well over $100,000 with experience and leadership - ProjectManager.com. Effective project managers are the experts that companies want to hire - and top team members want to work for.

Doing the little things right leads to doing the big things right. You only live your life once and you spend most of your precious time at work. That’s why the company you work for determines your life’s purpose and that’s why it ought to be a great one! How can you tell? Regardless of what you do, this book will help you. This book is the third in the Excellence in Business Leadership series and covers the methods of both well run great and poorly run suboptimal companies. Methods of Excellence shows the great versus suboptimal contrast through the eyes of four employees, four ...

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on project management in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on project management in organizations. First it explores the skills and job responsibilities of project managers, then it analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of project management, and last it discusses the future of the field. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all reader levels. If you are interested in learning about the ...

Kanban (or signboard in Japanese) is a scheduling system used in lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. The Kanban system focuses on eliminating waste, improving efficiency, and maximizing resources while reducing costs, all at the same time. Recognizing the benefits of this system, project managers around the world have started looking at Kanban as an effective project management tool. With Kanban, you’ll be able to equip yourself with the skills to become a master of project management.

High performing organizations see better results than their contemporaries and have more satisfied employees. This book clarifies this unique point in history where key technologies like AI, collaboration platforms, and low code development have converged to transform project and work management and provides practical strategies for seizing this moment to become a higher performing organization with happier people. In the ever-evolving landscape of business and technology, project management stands as a critical pillar, orchestrating the rhythm of progress and innovation.

"Unleash the power of collaboration with 'Building Strong Collaborative Teams in Project Management.' Tailored for project managers seeking excellence, this book is a roadmap to cultivating high-performance teams that drive project success. Delving into the art and science of teamwork, it offers actionable insights into fostering synergy, communication, and cohesion among team members. From establishing a collaborative culture to leveraging diverse strengths, each chapter is a strategic guide to overcoming challenges and maximizing team potential. Real-world examples illuminate proven ...

If you have ever been part of a great team, you will know it is exponentially better than being part of a mediocre team. Teams are at the heart of working in complex domains and are essential to the success of agile approaches yet relatively few teams achieve greatness. Agile and leadership coach Geoff Watts has pulled together his many years of experience with all sorts of teams from software to product development, from medical teams to sports teams and has identified five common characteristics of great teams:

This step-by-step guide: Explains the principles of PRINCE2 in straightforward, manageable chunks, emphasizes how to apply PRINCE2 in practice, using real-life examples, was written by an experienced PRINCE2 practitioner and trainer, so you can be sure that the information is based upon approaches that work, gives clear explanations and practical illustrations in each section, explains how to effectively apply PRINCE2’s principles, themes and processes to your projects and other real-world scenarios, and much more.

Jennifer Dulski, the head of Groups at Facebook, and former president of Change.org, explains how you can turn your mission into a movement that creates change - whether you're at a startup or a political campaign, at a Fortune 500 company or a local community group, or an intern or a CEO. Anyone can spark change if they believe in the power of taking action, no matter where, or how small, they start. Dulski explains how to create a clear vision, inspire supporters, persuade decision makers, navigate criticism, and more.

Eliminating misconceptions about what is really important for successful project financings, Project Finance for Business Development shows you how to develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage. By shedding light on project finance failures, it also helps you avoid failures of your own. Helping listeners develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage, this book is a useful tool for project sponsors and developers, helping them structure and implement projects by creating competitive advantage.

The Project Manager: Life Is a Project is a business fable designed to teach listeners how to apply simple project management techniques to their daily lives to become more organized and reach their goals.

Why do only 30 percent of business transformation programmes deliver on time, on budget, and on scope, realising the intended benefits while 70 percent fail? Uncover HOBA® (House of Business Architecture®) the Business Transformation framework, design process and blueprint for increasing your organisation’s success rate and delivering the Target Operating Model (TOM). This audiobook provides a practical, hands-on tool that has helped organisation‘s design, build and implement their business strategy and Target Operating Model (TOM) as part of their business transformation.

Gorilla in the Cockpit offers a revolutionary way to understand megaproject failures. It opens the black box to reveal the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial. They are human.

Simply put, no one cares if you study hundreds of books or just spend few weeks prepping for the exam. The only thing that matters is a flash message on your exam computer screen stating: "Congratulations! on passing the PMP exam". This small guide (listening time is less than two hours) will give you everything you need to understand the dynamics of the exam and ace it like a pro.

The Essential PMP Preparation is designed to break down the most complicated project management concepts into simple, easy-to-understand and remember explanations, definitions, and examples. The goal is to provide you with the most practical and comprehensive preparation experience without the usual stress and burnout that comes with the PMP studying process.

There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting - except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings - in person or online - without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by

It seems like a lifetime ago that I was a software project manager for a major telecommunications company. You will see it was sometime ago by the catchphrases and jargon in this little book. These pages were written before it was time to circle back to the issue. Back then, you would call someone and say “I’m calling you to talk about…” rather than “I am reaching out to you…” Here, I tried to distill some of the wisdom of how to manage projects, using the Biblical book of Proverbs as a literary guide. I also looked at my own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of my ...

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.