Project Management Leadership

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.

Las organizaciones se enfrentan cada vez a más costos y una competencia cada vez mayor. Con Lean Seis Sigma puede combatir estos problemas y hacer crecer su negocio. Lean Seis Sigma es una metodología fascinante que está orientada a ayudarlo a aumentar la productividad de su organización y eliminar los desperdicios. La idea sintetiza dos conceptos diferentes, Lean Enterprise o Lean Manufacturing y Seis Sigma, para darle una excelente comprensión de cómo su empresa está malgastando dinero y recursos, y qué puede hacer para evitarlo.

The work of a marketing team continues to expand to include more channels, quicker response times, and more variations of content, offers, and campaigns that personalization demands. Agile marketing can help brands be more nimble and adaptive to both internal and external pressures. Doing this requires a combination of people and processes that utilize methods like Scrum and the related practices and roles associated with creating, managing, and completing work utilizing agile principles.

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.

With a lot of content and a multitude of brand new techniques, this guide is for those who are willing to make real improvements in what they are doing. You will be shown how to break out of the administrative death cycle, the difference between valuable and cursed PMOs, how to rally your people - building momentum and community, how to overcome the cultural mishaps that undermine PMOs, and more.

Agile is here to stay and is poised to move beyond IT and project management teams into other business units, even HR. If you're still using top-down planning across your organization, your company will fall to competitors that are nimbler than you. This audiobook will help you understand today's most essential thinking on the latest agile practices so your company can develop offerings faster, react to fluctuations in the market, and ensure your strategy and people can adapt at a moment's notice.

The need for precise, actionable, real-time Business Intelligence (BI) lies at the heart of the role of Big Data in modern commerce. In turn, the art of Data Science lies at the nexus of Big Data and BI, providing the essential methods by which BI can be extracted from Big Data's great black mass of constantly flowing, unstructured information. This combination has a created a new profession: an elite and specialized class of highly-compensated professionals specially skilled at data cleaning, analysis, and visualization.

This audiobook offers valuable finance concepts to IT Managers and Project Managers so that they can carry out cost benefit analysis, develop a business case to justify ROI of a project, secure funding, and execute the project. NPV, IRR, Payback Period, ROI, TCO, Capital vs. Operating Expense, Depreciation & Amortization, Outsourcing & Offshoring, Cost Benefit Analysis, and Business Case are presented in detail.

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Do you ever feel like you never have enough time? Are you constantly battling with deadlines, emails, and social media notifications? Would you like to achieve superhuman focus in today’s distracted world? If you ever struggle with time management, you’re not alone. The truth is, in today’s increasingly distracted world, staying productive is incredibly challenging. It’s important to remember that this is not your fault! But procrastination will not solve itself; you must take action. And that’s how The Productivity & Decluttering Master Plan will empower you.

Si usted desea descubrir cómo lograr más haciendo y gastando menos, entonces siga leyendo...Muchos empresarios están utilizando la filosofía Lean Startup para racionalizar sus prácticas comerciales y realizar lanzamientos de mercado efectivos sin gastar mucho capital. Usted puede ser uno de ellos. Este audiolibro le enseñará todo lo que usted necesita saber sobre Lean Startups, su filosofía específica y cómo destaca en los negocios tradicionales.

Agile: A Manager's Guide to Unlocking Business Value is a simple resource for managers to quickly get up to speed with agile principles, methods, and techniques so that they can play an active role in agile projects or transformations.

An official ITIL® Licensed product, ITIL® Foundation Essentials is a distillation of critical information - no waffle or padding; just exactly what you need to understand how to pass the ITIL Foundation exam. Created for self-study candidates, ITIL community training delegates, itSMF/BCS members, and V2 Foundation Certificate holders who have yet to take an upgraded exam, this pocket guide is fully aligned with the ITIL 2011 core volumes.

Lots of entrepreneurs are using the lean startup philosophy to streamline their business practices and make effective market launches without using up a lot of capital. You can be one of them. This audiobook is going to teach you everything you need to know about lean startups, its specific philosophy, and how it edges out traditional businesses. If you want an amazing startup from day one, this comprehensive guide will start at the drawing board and accompany you as you launch your business and develop quality products tailored to the market.

If you want to learn about scrum then keep reading... Are you having trouble getting products to market? Do you struggle with meeting the actual needs of your customers despite spending elaborate amounts of time planning out how you will meet the needs they outlined to you? Do not fear; you are not alone. But you also do not need to get comfortable here. Your company can also be one of the innovators. You can shake up the industry by offering creative solutions to users and clients alike. You can create a self-managed, fun work environment. And of course, you can bump up your ROI.

Missing your Indie publishing goals? Losing money by delivering work late to sub-contractors? Struggling to write more than one book per year? Spend a weekend with Meeting the Writer's Deadline and learn to deliver your work on time. Meeting the Writer's Deadline will show you in a weekend how you can start managing your book projects and meeting your deadlines! Get Meeting the Writer's Deadline today, because writing is serious business.

You are about to discover how anyone can achieve extraordinary success by simply harnessing the power of his or her memory. What if I told you that you could learn and memorize more in less time? Stay focused, quit being frustrated, improve concentration, be more productive, and absorb info like a human sponge...and best of all do it in as little as five minutes a day? In Computer Memory that's exactly what you'll get.

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.

The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial skills, as a result the lore concerning the magic of teams has been lost. Leadership: Building Highly Effective Teams, provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective collaborative team environment.