Project Management Leadership

You may be a project manager or a stakeholder with "street smarts". Maybe you have expertise in the nuts and bolts of project execution. Or you might be a "book smart" expert on the rules and tools of the trade. Whatever your strengths, most project managers agree it's a juggling act to balance people and processes. Nearly every project requires a balance of both practical and conceptual skills. Now you can fill in the gaps to gain a perfect balance of the two.

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.

Are you struggling with being organized? Do you have too much to do? Tired of forgetting important ideas or reminders? The truth is we're surrounded by so much "noise" (ideas, TV, social media, and advertising) that it's hard to slow down and keep track of the truly important things. One way to fix this problem? The Evernote app.

Scrum—an organizing approach that exposes work progress and quality—is used all over the place in software development, but it's not just for coders. Scrum For Dummies shows you how scrum can improve performance regardless of your industry or project. You can even use scrum to get tangible results in your personal projects—prepare for retirement, organize travel, and much more. Plan goals, releases, and sprints for all aspects of business and life. With Dummies, you'll learn how to work flexibility and collaboration into anything you're doing.

Can you DOUBLE your salary in your 9-5 job? Yes, you can! This eBook offers proven strategies to double your salary and revitalize your entire professional outlook. Discover what you are capable of with actionable advice that catapults your career to new heights. What This Career Development eBook Offers: Salary Increase Tactics: Learn how I significantly increased my income and how you can do the same. Essential Career Skills: Master leadership, time management, interviewing, and resume writing. Productivity Boosters: Find out how to accomplish more in less time and maximize your workday ...

IT! was born in a bare-bones warehouse floor work environment, where learning by doing developed the materials for flight. Controllers spanned diverse backgrounds: Philco tech reps, farm boys, Native Americans, and junior college grads who became self-made engineers. A free exchange of knowledge developed expertise among colleagues. Everyone brought unique viewpoints and skills which coalesced into IT! In relaying his long tenure at NASA, Kranz narrates the development of IT! His views on lessons learned through decades of Mission Control are valuable for any innovation-based organization.

An unstoppable business revolution is under way - and it is Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn to connect everyone and everything...all the time. They can deliver instant, intimate, frictionless value on a large scale.

Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this path-breaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well.

A lot of business owners and managers get many things right, but there are also things they can do better. Take communication skills for example: Are you really effective enough at communicating? Are you good at delegating responsibilities? Aside from this, we’ll touch on the topic of project management. People who work in projects typically achieve more if they have been executed effectively. Real leaders get things done fast and proficiently. Are you that leader yet?

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.

Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster shows listeners how applying Agile and DevOps ways of working into cyber-physical systems presents the opportunity to reap huge rewards, including increased adaptability, shorter delivery schedules, reduced development cost, increased quality, and higher transparency into delivery.

2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro :Gestión Ágil de Proyectos: Cómo Hacer más Felices a sus Clientes mientras Reduce Costos Monetarios, Temporales y de Esfuerzo y Kanban: La guía definitiva de la metodología Kanban para el desarrollo de software ágil. Escucha para más.... La primera parte de este libro incluye: Una definición clara sobre la gestión ágil de proyectos, una comparación detallada entre este tipo de gestión y los modelos tradicionales, y más. Al leer la segunda parte de este libro, usted: Descubrir qué es el sistema Kanban y más.

It's no secret that the Agile process is fast becoming the preferred way to manage projects, and in the year ahead, Agile is expected to become even more widely used. The goal with this audiobook is to change the way you and your company approach your customer's needs so you can deliver products to them faster and with more value, while also turning the process around internally to create a workplace for which people line up to work.

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.

Introducing "Leading with Excellence," your pivotal companion on the journey to optimal project management and team leadership. This eBook dives deep to provide invaluable insights into how successful teams function and how you, as a leader, can uplift your team's performance to new heights. "Leading with Excellence" handily breaks down the fundamentals of project management before seguing seamlessly into the premise of fostering high-performance teams. Savor the chance to explore varied aspects of team dynamics, understand their nuances, and master how to bring out the best in your team ...

For the last 15 years you've been fed a diet of methods and processes as the answer to failing projects. Yet, the best projects are the result of the person that leads them and the environment they create. In order to delight stakeholders and transform organizations you need the skills to inspire project teams and create a culture of success.

Do you often look at how your organization runs its projects and wish things could be done better? Are you a project manager who is tired of poor planning and organization of projects? You are about to learn exactly what it takes to become one of the most effective and efficient project managers around!

This book was written for the new manager or anyone who aspires to become a leader. Whether you have just finished school or have been working for some time, you are in (or about to assume) your first real leadership position. Leadership in Balance will help you to see and understand your natural tendency in each of four essential leadership domains. Once you’ve identified your true and natural tendencies, you become self-aware of your default position as a leader.

Retrospectives are indispensable for continuous learning and improvement in lean, Agile, DevOps, and other contexts, but most of us have suffered through at least one retrospective that was a waste of time or worse. Now, leading agile coach Aino Vonge Corry identifies 24 reasons that retrospectives fail and shows how to overcome each of them. Using the familiar “patterns” approach, Retrospectives Antipatterns introduces antipatterns related to structure, planning, people, distributed teams, and more.

¿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?