Project Management Leadership

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.

Learn everything you need to know to ace the new PMP Exam. The Perfect PMP Exam Prep Flashcards are aligned with the NEW PMP exam and the PMBOK Guide, 7th Edition. Master the 714 Most Important Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid PMP concepts you must know to ace the exam. Every concept is explained in a simple way so you can stop memorizing and actually learn!

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).

In the ever-evolving world of project management, The Lazy Project Manager has been a guiding light for those seeking efficiency through unconventional strategies as well as honesty and a whole lot of fun. With The Lazy Winner, Peter Taylor brought his straightforward and humorous approach to personal productivity and success. Now, he has combined these two books to ensure a comprehensive guide for professionals seeking both project management excellence and personal fulfillment—the goal of a great work/life balance.

Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean management. The author helps listeners grasp the system as a whole, as well as the factors that animate it, by organizing the book around an image of a house of Lean production.

Eliminating misconceptions about what is really important for successful project financings, Project Finance for Business Development shows you how to develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage. By shedding light on project finance failures, it also helps you avoid failures of your own. Helping listeners develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage, this book is a useful tool for project sponsors and developers, helping them structure and implement projects by creating competitive advantage.

What can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Spanx Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled entrepreneur Sara Blakely to dominate the shapewear industry and become a billionaire.

Included in this collection are the top eight audiobooks to help you improve, grow, and master your skills on Lean methodology. Change the way you do business. This audiobook collection will help you reach near-perfection in the products you sell, the customer service you provide, and the lack of waste you achieve.

Agile PM is a methodology to implement to get maximum business efficiency eliminating waste and reducing production costs. This is the most basic definition of agile. Scrum, in particular, is one of the most used agile frameworks. Initially, Scrum was born for software development projects, but it can now be applied also in innovative and more complex projects. Applying it, the work is completed and delivered in short cycles (called sprints) to keep the focus on development and continuous improvement of a product or service.

Scrum is the most successful framework for agile product development, and much has been written about how to follow the Scrum process, but the key to success is in the leadership skills of the product owner. Product Mastery explores the traits of the best product owners, offering an insight into the difference between good and great product ownership and explaining how the best product owners are driven to be successful.

Agile methods have brought about dramatic changes in how organizations manage and deliver not only IT services, but their entire product and service value streams. As legacy organizations transition to newer, end-to-end agile operating models, the Project Management Office (PMO) needs to redesign its mission and operation to be more in line with these modern ways of working.

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.

Around the world, product teams are waking up to the same uncomfortable truth: doing things “the right way” doesn’t matter if your team loses its funding or your company goes out of business. Simply put, product teams can no longer afford to be disconnected from the business impact of their work. And well-trodden “best practices” from Silicon Valley behemoths can only provide so much guidance for teams working across vastly different business and funding models.

Become a successful project manager in weeks, even if you've never led a team before – Unleash your leadership skills now! Do you want to dive into project management but fear you lack the experience to lead effectively? Worried about handling complex projects and meeting stakeholder expectations? Or maybe you've been unexpectedly thrust into a project management role and feel overwhelmed?

Project managers are no longer judged by the technical success of their projects alone. They're also held accountable for their contributions to the company's financial goals. Yet most project managers don't have the business knowledge necessary to make project-based decisions that lead to bottom-line success.

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.

This step-by-step guide: Explains the principles of PRINCE2 in straightforward, manageable chunks, emphasizes how to apply PRINCE2 in practice, using real-life examples, was written by an experienced PRINCE2 practitioner and trainer, so you can be sure that the information is based upon approaches that work, gives clear explanations and practical illustrations in each section, explains how to effectively apply PRINCE2’s principles, themes and processes to your projects and other real-world scenarios, and much more.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on managing projects and initiatives, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you lead initiatives that will inspire your people, tackle your biggest challenges with agile, and prepare yourself and your organization for a world driven by projects.

The Essential PMP Preparation is designed to break down the most complicated project management concepts into simple, easy-to-understand and remember explanations, definitions, and examples. The goal is to provide you with the most practical and comprehensive preparation experience without the usual stress and burnout that comes with the PMP studying process.