Project Management Development

Are you staring down a project that’s spiraling out of control? In Software Salvage: How to Rescue Your Failing Development Project, I share 25 years of hard-earned lessons from the front lines of software development—lessons that can help you turn a sinking project into a success story. This book is your step-by-step guide to diagnosing and reversing the course of troubled tech initiatives. Whether you’re a CTO, business owner, or startup founder, you’ll discover clear, actionable strategies designed to get your project back on track. I blend real-world case studies—like the ...

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.

Have you heard about a very important nerve in your body called “vagus nerve”? Maybe yes, maybe not. Maybe, this doesn’t matter because we're talking about the most important nerve in your body. Yes, it’s all over your body! You might not have any idea how one single nerve can change your humor, health, daily routine, and life.

If you want to achieve success in project management, then pay attention...Some projects were always bound to fail. However, that is just a tiny minority. Most projects fail at least partly because of poor project management. This audiobook aims to demystify project management and show you two different approaches that have a big following: Agile/Scrum, a very free form methodology that is good for services and software, and Lean Six Sigma, which is more data-driven and particularly useful for high-volume businesses from call centers to manufacturing.

You have a limited amount of time to create software, especially when you’re given a deadline, self-imposed or not. You’ll want to make sure that the software you build is at least decent but more importantly, on time. How do you balance quality with time? This audiobook dives into these very important topics. After listening to Scrum Essentials, you will know about scrum roles, sprints, scrum artifacts, and much more.

The Agile methodology is a project management methodology that uses short development cycles (called "sprints") to focus on continuous improvement in the development of a product or service. It consists of a family of methods (including Scrum, extreme programming (XP), test-driven development (TDD), and feature-driven development (FDD), each of which has the objective to provide a better product in less time, avoiding development of useless functions and overcoming errors that a traditional planning method could result in, both for big and small projects.

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.

Scaled up leaders take on increased responsibilities without sacrificing quality of life and relationships with colleagues, friends, and loved ones.Becoming an effective leader of leaders all starts with you and the habits you build long before you become a leader of leaders. As an individual contributor or even a first-line leader it’s easier to just work longer and harder to keep up. As a leader’s responsibilities grow, though, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to get it all done and maintain a quality of life. It’s no longer about working harder; it’s about building ...

Everyone can access happiness—it’s a case of learning how. Holly Matthews is on a mission to make your life better, and she’s keeping it simple. No BS. No fluff. The Happy Me Project is 60 short chapters of straight-to-the-point advice, structured for our time-poor modern world, and packed with practical tips on ways to fill your life with more joy. Whatever you’re facing, this audiobook is for you, and Holly will be cheering you along every step of the way

The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial skills, as a result the lore concerning the magic of teams has been lost. Leadership: Building Highly Effective Teams, provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective collaborative team environment.

Agile is one of the most popular software development methodologies used by organizations all over the world. It is characterized by adaptability, flexibility and self-organization, but what does it mean to truly "be" Agile instead of just "doing" Agile? This book contains a series of entertaining posts about Agile software development and is a follow up book to the acclaimed Understanding the Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile. Larry Apke, a seasoned Agile coach, uses his own experiences to provide real world stories that will help people to understand the Agile philosophy.

Sara Davies is known for her no-nonsense, down-to-earth entrepreneurship, and this book reveals her secrets to success in just six minutes a week. Filled with stories from Sara's own career, her 52 invaluable lessons span the year, teaching you everything you need to know to launch, run and grow your business.

With this audiobook, you can learn about Kanban methodology and Agile project management so you can optimize the workflow to serve a specific purpose, ensuring customer satisfaction.

Do you find it hard to fall asleep each night? Is it so bad that you actually don’t look forward to going to bed each night? Do you spend hours frustrated because you can't stop anxious thoughts from running through your head? You need to find a way to unwind from the world. Project Sleep was created for people who need help finding sleep and staying asleep. These are bedtime stories for adults. You deserve peaceful deep and satisfying sleep.

This book contains proven tips and strategies to help you better understand the Agile development process and ways to survive the rapid testing needed to ensure a quality end product. If you are transitioning into an Agile development process from a more traditional Waterfall or V model of development, this book is for you. If you are finding it difficult to keep up with the demands of testing in a rapid development Agile-like testing cycle, this book is for you. If your team is struggling to find good, consistent processes to employ to smoothly deliver software on demand, this book is a ...

If you want to develop your skills in project management and human resource management, then pay attention...Two manuscripts in one audiobook: Project Management and Human Resource Management. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Project management: Before you start, Agile and Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, discover amazing recruitment and onboarding strategies for your company, learn the best approach for your human resource management, find out how you can enhance your relationship with your employees to maximize productivity, and much more.

Take control of your life with the proven principles of project management! Whether you’re planning a career change, organizing your finances, or simply trying to find balance, this book offers practical tools and strategies to transform chaos into clarity.

You are about to discover how to use Agile Project Management to cut through bottlenecks and avoidable inefficiencies to improve your projects continuously for successful project life cycles!

Building Digital Products is designed for the new Product Manager who feels in way over their head, the experienced Product Manager looking to step up his or her game, and the expert Product Manager who understands that there is always more to learn. Building Digital Products maps the full development cycle from problem identification to selling your solution, to understanding the right data to track.

Night after night chefs and their crews are able to multitask and produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret: mise-en-place - the organizational system that transforms the lives of its practitioners through focus and self-discipline.