Project Leadership

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.

Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task—from engaging with stakeholders and scoping out the full specification of the project, through to keeping a rein on costs and sticking to schedules. Manage Projects Successfully offers calm and practical advice to help you with setting priorities, communicating with others, monitoring progress and dealing with unexpected events.

Fortunately, you do not need any programming skills nor project management certifications to start your dream career now. You will just need the right guidance to learn the fundamentals of agile project management. I’ve provided everything you need to know in this audiobook for you to start now. Are you ready and set to become Agile?

Many companies have attempted to implement popular methodologies (think Six Sigma, Agile, SCRUM, etc.) in a bid to enhance communication with remote workforces and technical vendor teams.

Scrum focuses on delivering high-quality products at a lower cost within a shorter period. Simply put, scrum is all about being efficient and effective while making the most of your team’s resources. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Fortunately, all of this is very much a reality. Organizations such as LEGO, Cisco, and Samsung have all successfully utilized scrum to to continually built upon their business processes while improving efficiency.

The One-Page Project Manager set a new standard as an understandable and easy-to-apply organizational tool, allowing managers to summarize complex projects on a single information-rich page. This audiobook, third in the OPPM series, describes how to combine the OPPM with the Toyota A3 report to create an enhanced, integrated management tool. With a refreshingly clear style, the authors walk users through implementing the OPPM/A3 using a variety of real-world case studies, as well as their own experience at O.C. Tanner Company.

Each chapter builds on common terms and transformational strategies. The aim is to turn you into a savvy leader who is respected and can offer your client or business challenge the confidence to deliver. Let us also not forget that there are lots of real-world examples of proof that this approach will work.

This audiobook provides project managers with five simple checklists to manage projects using a standard work approach that contains most of the principles found in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). If you manage projects, this audiobook will provide you a simple approach to deliver quality results, whether you’re just starting out or if you’ve been managing projects for years.

Am Anfang läuft es noch wie geschmiert. Doch irgendwann kommt der Punkt, an dem Projektleiter, Projektmitarbeiter und auch die initiierenden Führungskräfte unter Druck geraten - aus welchem Grund auch immer. Das ganze Vorhaben droht zu scheitert, alle Verantwortung liegt nun in Ihrer Hand. Ralph Nolte findet in seinem Buch Druck-Ausgleich. Wie Sie es schaffen, dass jeder im Team Verantwortung übernimmt Antworten auf Fragen, die Entscheider jeden Tag aufs neu beschäftigen: Wie schaffen Sie Druckentlastung? Wie setzen Sie ein Veränderungsprojekt sauber auf?

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.

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.

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.

Handling a project in a company may become difficult if you do not follow these basic principles and techniques to keep everything aligned in order to complete a project on time. Agile Project Management helps you to complete projects efficiently and effectively before the deadline. In this audiobook, you will be able to learn all the different aspects of the agile project management life cycle, which is explained step-by-step.

Breakthrough Scale is not just another business book filled with vague advice or hustle-driven clichés. It is a step-by-step blueprint for entrepreneurs who have crossed the six-figure mark and are ready to build a business that truly scales—without burning out or breaking their systems.

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?

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.

Die Welt dreht am großen Krisenrad. Die Bedrohung durch Veränderungen ist auf allen Märkten von der Ausnahme zur Normalität geworden. Die Welt dreht am großen Krisenrad. Und mittendrin: Sie als Unternehmer, der, um diesen Krisen und Unwägbarkeiten zu begegnen, immer neue Projekte anschieben – und allzu oft zusehen muss, wie dabei nichts vorwärtsgeht. Michael G. Schmidt kennt die frustrierende Situation, in der Sie als Unternehmer stecken, wenn Sie immer wieder reagieren müssen und vor lauter Krisenmanagement nicht mehr ins Agieren kommen.