Project Management Leadership

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.

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La mayoría de las organizaciones e individuos trabaja bajo el concepto de metas y planes anuales; es decir, en ciclos de ejecución de 12 meses. En cambio, El año de 12 semanas te propone evitar las trampas y la baja productividad que genera el tipo de pensamiento anualizado. Esta propuesta redefine tu "año" para que pienses en términos de 12 semanas de ejecución durante las cuales no tendrás tiempo suficiente como para posponer tus metas y, por el contrario, tu urgencia por cumplirlas aumentará y se intensificará.

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, author Roman Pichler explains how to create effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to help you maximize your chances of creating successful products. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products.

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As executives build and nurture their organization's strategic agility in today's turbulent, uncertain business environment, the ability to lead strategic change has become more critical than ever. The Strategic Project Leader, Second Edition will help project managers lead with confidence in temporary, ambiguous team structures that execute risk-laden work in an increasingly agile project environment. The book provides practical guidance to help you move from project manager to service-based project leader.

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).

Another project management methodology is called “scrum.” When the two are combined, it automatically improves the overall results of any team. It also ensures that the team is functioning in a way that enables continuous collaboration, cooperation, and innovation.

Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach breaks down agile in a way that makes it easy to understand and practical to follow. As one of agile's leading practitioners, Mike Griffiths takes complex concepts and not only simplifies them but makes the listening fun and easily relatable. Whether you're new to agile or just looking for an essential desk reference, Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach is the perfect introduction to all things agile.

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This guide shows listeners how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change.

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.

This book is crafted to serve as a comprehensive guide for aspiring and seasoned IT project managers. It delves into the core aspects of project management, offering practical advice, insights, and strategies drawn from real-world experiences. It primary focus is on A Day in the Life of a Project Manager. Other subsequent books in this series will touch on different aspect of project management principles.

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Scrum is the leading Agile methodology used by Fortune 500 companies and is transforming businesses everywhere. In this ever-changing world of customer expectations and new technologies, businesses need to be agile to get ahead and stay there. With Scrum, you can be ready to adapt to the inevitable change.

Master the skills, practical how-to techniques and tips in The Extraordinary Power of Project Relationships. Your business life will be much more successful and so will your personal life. Invest in reading, learning and appropriately applying these techniques. Use the audiobook as a handy reference as you perform project work in the office as well as your personal life. Reward yourself. Your relationships will get better. You deserve to make their life as good as it can be!

Scrum—an organizing approach that exposes work progress and quality—is used all over the place in software development, but it's not just for coders. Scrum For Dummies shows you how scrum can improve performance regardless of your industry or project. You can even use scrum to get tangible results in your personal projects—prepare for retirement, organize travel, and much more. Plan goals, releases, and sprints for all aspects of business and life. With Dummies, you'll learn how to work flexibility and collaboration into anything you're doing.

In The Accidental CIO, veteran software developer-turned-executive Scott Millett delivers an essential playbook to becoming an impactful, strategic leader at any stage of your IT leadership journey. You'll find a wealth of hands-on advice for tackling the many challenges and paradoxes that face technology leaders, from creating an aligned IT strategy, defining a target architecture, designing a balanced operating model, and leading teams and executing strategy.

Les changements dans les organisations échouent trois lois sur quatre ou deux lois sur trois. Pourquoi c'est si dur de changer ? Il s'agit sans doute de la question la plus souvent posée par les individus comme par les entreprises. Les trois parties de ce livre ont été élaborées par trois auteurs à partir de leurs nombreuses conférences sur le sujet. Trois auteurs, trois regards : Les idées reçues sur le changement ; La liberté face au changement ; Les pesanteurs de l'organisation et comment y faire face.

In Leading Exponential Change, world-renowned consultant Erich R. Bühler shares the secrets that differentiate truly remarkable companies from those that fail to adapt to today’s constantly changing market conditions. During his years on the front lines, the author recognized that no two companies were the same - and that what worked in one enterprise might not work in another. He studied a wide range of organizations to determine the specific behaviors and mind-sets needed to embrace change.