Project Leadership

The Meeting Planning Process: A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings by certified meeting professional Mary Jo Wiseman offers a common-sense approach to managing the meeting planning process based on the knowledge and experience she garnered over a 20-plus-year career as a corporate meeting and event coordinator. The author’s systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects, and deadlines throughout her career, and she wants to share her secrets for success with others.

The ‘I’ in Agile: A Personal Journey is about my battle with Agile and the challenges I faced.

In his new book The Busy Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management,serial entrepreneur - and finalist for the laziest/most distracted person on the planet - Michael Clarke shares how to get more done (in less time) and achieve that relaxed, fulfilled (and insanely successful) entrepreneurial life you've always dreamed of. So if you'd like to finally master this thing called “Time Management” - and you've tried all the seminars and mantras but nothing seems to have stuck - then give The Busy Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management a try TODAY!

Bringen Sie Ihre Projekte mit den richtigen Techniken erfolgreich zum Ziel!

The agile practice is only one of the many iterative methods devised by development leaders in the past. Fundamentally speaking, iterative methods opposed the overly-incremental approach of the waterfall method by using a multitude of smaller phases. These phases encompass the main parts of the waterfall method (requirement, design, implementation, verification, and maintenance); but done so in smaller, more frequent increments.

There are hundreds of ways to keep your life organized, but this book has made all the extra effort to point out the 25 ways to improve the organization of your stuff, work, time management, and your outlook. Perhaps you have noticed that there is too little space for everything you own. There is also too little time for everything that you need to do. Likewise, you find your life too short to fulfill all the dreams and desires of your heart. The primary key to doing the most with the limited resources you have is organization.

It's great to find yourself with a new promotion and to suddenly have fresh challenges at work. But managing other people can be a daunting responsibility when it's your first time—particularly if you find yourself as the boss of former colleagues or friends. Packed with practical advice, Succeed as a New Manager will help you sail through issues such as getting to know your team, dealing with internal politics, the rise of hybrid and remote working, motivating others and celebrating success.

Discover how to maximize value and minimize waste, create a more effective start-up, and eliminate wasteful practices and improve efficiency.

The revolution in technology has opened the space for more opportunities in this Internet age. The opportunity created by this technological innovation has led to the proliferation of online businesses. Businesses oftentimes require abstract skills to maintain. These abstract characteristics found within a person would be an added advantage to the overall success of the business. So it is not just about hiring a person because of their degrees, it is about looking beyond this and seeing the qualities in such a person.

Would you like to learn new ideas to manage your work team? In this book, you’ll find a new vision to lead your team with harmony and motivation to improve productivity. You will also find the tools you need to become a leader and not a controlling boss. This will help you give a better impression to your team and allow each person to contribute to improving the activities and processes inside your organization.

Whether you are about to start a brand new career in project management, or you are an existing project manager that is now looking to climb the corporate ladder, this audiobook will teach you how to manage your projects effectively, from beginning to end. The term "project management" is so broad and can be applied to so many aspects of business that a lot of people get confused by it. But don't worry, this audiobook will break it down into bite-size, relevant chunks that you can take away and apply.

The Millionaire Project Manager focuses on the road map to financial success and career growth as a project manager. This audiobook is for individuals looking to become project managers and working project managers looking to advance their career and income.

This audiobook contains succinct descriptions and insights into effective project management for you and your organization.

Teach, Lead, Inspire: A Project Manager’s Guide to Transformative Training is your step-by-step blueprint for designing and delivering training programs that truly make a difference. Perfect for trainers, educators, and project managers, this book combines cutting-edge instructional techniques with proven project management principles to help you create sessions that engage, inspire, and deliver measurable results.

In The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Growth, renowned business adviser Stephen Dann sets out the methods, tools, and techniques to enable your business to develop, thrive, and grow so you can achieve your business and personal goals.

Agile project management has grown in popularity over the past several years. Change is occurring so fast that many organizations are unable to keep up with the demands of a changing global world. Your ability to quickly change and adapt to your environment will make or break, not only your career but could be the deciding factor as to whether your company survives in the coming years.

You are an Agile Coach and you are being called in to fix a problem with project ownership. There is a team of developers who look good on paper but who are not performing up to expectations. They do not seem to care very much about the work they are doing. You have been asked to figure out what is wrong and to fix it. What should you do?

You are an Agile Coach and your client has asked you a question. He is an engineering manager and the company has just announced a "work from home" policy. Developers may now work from home instead of coming to the office. The Engineering Manager has asked you if there are any "Agile Metrics" he can use to make sure his developers stay busy and are not being lazy. He is investigating software to record when people log in and log out, and count their keystrokes in between. What should you tell him to do?

You are a Scrum Master and your team has a problem. Their work depends on another team to enhance the back end of the application but they are not being very helpful. Your team tells you that the other team's performance is an "impediment" and that you must go whip the other team into shape. What should you do?

You are an Agile Coach and you are being called in to fix a bad problem. Your client has entered into a fixed price contract with their client, but it looks like the project is going sour. Half of the time and money have been spent but only about 30 percent of the milestones have been reached. Management wants you to "do Agile" and fix the problem. What should you do? This case and the others in the series come from the real-world experiences of a group of Scrum professionals who meet regularly to discuss the Scrum Framework and how to apply it to actual situations they have encountered.