Project Leadership

Embark on a transformative journey into the world of project management with Breaking into Project Management, a comprehensive guide designed to equip aspiring and experienced project managers with the essential skills, strategies, and insights needed to succeed in this dynamic field.

This book has been deliberately written in straightforward, jargon-free language understandable by anyone with even a modest background in business. It’s designed to show you how to manage projects of all types, small or large, local or global, in-person or digital, for any kind of organization. I want it to be your toolbox - and I’m looking at you, engineers, software developers, managers, and teachers. Your toolbox is what you go to without thinking, knowing it has the thing you need, and knowing, too, where to find it.

A project charter is a formal document that signifies an official kick-off of your project. This audiobook prepares you to understand each component and have hands-on expertise in clearly documenting the specifics needed to convince the top management to approve your project. Whether you are executing a Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, or even a large project management style of project, you would need to document the project charter. And this audiobook covers every aspect of the charter for any and every type of project.

The percentage of IT projects that fail is embarrassing to those in the IT industry! Project managers need to get their act together to ensure that their projects run smoothly, all lines of communication are open, and they have the backing of the stakeholders and upper management. But do PMs have the skills they need to keep a project afloat? This quick career guide book is meant to provide you with 10 real world IT project examples, why they failed, and lessons learned for each one.

With such a big emphasis on getting certified, IT project managers are spending a lot of time and money getting certifications and working to improve their “hard skills”. While these certifications and working on the mechanics of IT project management are important, there is one thing that many IT project managers neglect to work on and that is their soft skills. Understanding how to run a project is only a piece of the entire puzzle. Learning how to work with your teams and stakeholders is as important if not more important. This skill starts with emotional intelligence.

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.

It's time to level the playing field! You are accustomed to being the first - the first to go to college, the first to start a business. You often enter rooms where no one else looks like you. You're a trailblazer on a mission to create a new legacy for your family. And yet, despite your success, you still work too hard for too little cash. In Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises, Susanne Mariga, CPA, shows you how to implement the proven Profit First cash-management system that has lifted thousands of entrepreneurs out of the struggle and into success.

Si estás gestionando tu primer proyecto o simplemente estás cansado de improvisar, la Guía HBR Gestión de Proyectos te proporcionará las herramientas y la confianza que necesitas para definir y alcanzar objetivos inteligentes, y te enseñará a aprovechar las lecciones aprendidas para mejorar el desarrollo de futuros proyectos.

Every day around the world, across all business sectors, projects of various size and scope are being planned, started and completed and each one of these has a project manager in charge of ensuring that each member of each project team is working as effectively as possible in order to see it through successfully. If you are interested in learning how to join their ranks, then this is the book you have been waiting for.

Boost your project management skills with proven methodologies, and deliver high-quality projects to ensure success! Imagine being able to confidently and efficiently manage your projects, no matter the complexities. With so many methodologies and tools, how do you know which one to choose? That's where the extensive knowledge and expertise offered in this book comes in.

Project management is a high-stakes game, and failure is rarely an option. Are you ready to make your projects indestructible from pitfalls?Crash Proof Your Project is a highly engaging, highly effective tool book for project management. It offers simple, easy-to-apply solutions to safeguard projects from potential failures or "crashes." It aims to help managers and stakeholders improve communication, strengthen relationships, and drive better performance.

Navigate the world of Agile and Scrum with ease and confidence using this comprehensive guide. This book will introduce you to the basics of Agile and Scrum, two of the most popular and effective project management and software development methodologies.

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.

結果を出し続けるリーダーは、何をやっているのか？　引っ越しから宇宙開発まで、プロジェクトを必ず成功させるマネジメント法とは？

Souverän Projekte steuern ist dein praktischer Begleiter für den Projektalltag. Autorin Nina Bergfeld zeigt dir, wie du Projekte professionell planst, strukturierst und erfolgreich umsetzt–auch ohne komplizierte Fachbegriffe oder theoretische Modelle. Statt trockener Theorie bekommst du praxisnahe Anleitungen, Tools und Methoden, die du sofort anwenden kannst.

Starting a software development project is easy…but finishing it? Successfully? Is a different story. Software CAN be developed that meets real needs, and its development can be both efficient and effective. But. You have to know what you are up against. You need to know what questions to ask and how to understand the answers.

Senior managers speak the language of strategy. Project managers use the language of tasks and activities. While they rely on each other to achieve their goals, this core incompatibility leads to communication breakdowns and project setbacks. Succeeding with Senior Management explains how to bridge the gap and engage the upper ranks. By thinking like an executive, establishing relationships early on, and keeping them informed about progress, project managers win the support they need - especially critical when problems arise.

In our society we hear a lot of about IQ. The general norm is that a person with a high IQ is bound for success. But is that necessarily true? Some are naturally gifted with the ability to solve problems and think of the fly. However, the ability to interact with others in social settings or in a work place truly overshadows those with a high IQ. But why is that? How can understanding other people’s emotions have a greater impact than a high IQ?

Waterfall methodology is part of the linear, scope-driven lifecycles family of approaches. As it is the manifestation of the command-and-control organization, it is highly prescriptive. Almost all organizations using the methodology have a similar set of processes, mostly based on the PMBOK (more on that later).

How would you like to have some easy, step-by-step directions for checking how eco-friendly your organization is, where you would like it to be, and how to get there? If you want to make a bigger difference helping people live a greener life, this is definitely the book for you. This book is different from other books on this topic. It is a combination of how-to-do and what-to-do…how to do a analysis of the current state of your organization, how to improve, and what no-cost, low-cost, and innovative projects will help your organization improve its triple bottom line.