Project Management Leadership

There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting - except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings - in person or online - without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by

"No one asked you to show up." Every experienced product manager has heard some version of those words at some point in their career. Think about a company. Engineers build the product. Designers make sure it has a great user experience and looks good. Marketing makes sure customers know about the product. Sales get potential customers to open their wallets to buy the product. What more does a company need?

This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler’s extensive experience, you’ll learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, How to Lead in Product Management offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies. Through helpful examples, the book illustrates how you can directly apply the techniques to your work.

Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges - challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single entity. Today's leaders need a set of tools specifically designed to harness the power of collaborative networks. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You'll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won't find anywhere else.

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.

Why do only 30 percent of business transformation programmes deliver on time, on budget, and on scope, realising the intended benefits while 70 percent fail? Uncover HOBA® (House of Business Architecture®) the Business Transformation framework, design process and blueprint for increasing your organisation’s success rate and delivering the Target Operating Model (TOM). This audiobook provides a practical, hands-on tool that has helped organisation‘s design, build and implement their business strategy and Target Operating Model (TOM) as part of their business transformation.

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.

Whether you're managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly.

Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Project Management. Includes how to deliver a successful project from start to finish; communicate effectively with people at all levels; manage changes and control scope creep; identify and deal with risks; and work with common project-management methodologies.

RAISE Your Value is the ultimate guide to elevating Architecture and Engineering firms out of the trap of commoditization. Learn how to Uncover Hidden Value, Design a Winning Advantage, and Charge More. As your firm pursues business, your staff must navigate difficult conversations around fees and pricing every day. Pressures from existing and potential new clients to lower fees often force your team to give away profits and avoid asking for change orders to get the work and “be competitive.”

An unstoppable business revolution is under way - and it is Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn to connect everyone and everything...all the time. They can deliver instant, intimate, frictionless value on a large scale.

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.

Do you often look at how your organization runs its projects and wish things could be done better? Are you a project manager who is tired of poor planning and organization of projects? You are about to learn exactly what it takes to become one of the most effective and efficient project managers around!

Many companies try to save money and underestimate the importance of project management. You know better than anyone else that project management is more than just quickly briefing your team during work. Even startups with small budgets invest in a project manager (PM) because it's no longer a secret that a skilled project manager can save companies 28 times more money since their output is more reliable.

When you start a project, there are many phases that they must be conducted in the right way to complete it. If one phase of the project goes wrong, the whole infrastructure could be compromised (and this is certainly what we don't want to happen). For this reason, this guide's main goal is to teach you how to conduct the entire process of your project correctly to obtain the results that you want and the satisfaction of your client - through the Agile project management system.

Simply put, no one cares if you study hundreds of books or just spend few weeks prepping for the exam. The only thing that matters is a flash message on your exam computer screen stating: "Congratulations! on passing the PMP exam". This small guide (listening time is less than two hours) will give you everything you need to understand the dynamics of the exam and ace it like a pro.

Agile project management has grown in popularity over the past several years. Change is occurring so fast that many organizations are unable to keep up with the demands of a changing global world. Your ability to quickly change and adapt to your environment will make or break, not only your career but could be the deciding factor as to whether your company survives in the coming years.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how projects are managed across industries. Project managers and team leaders are discovering that AI-powered tools can shoulder much of the “grunt work” – from drafting project plans to summarizing status updates – allowing human teams to focus on strategic decision-making and creative problem-solving. In my years of leading teams both in the military and corporate world, I’ve learned the value of leveraging the right tools to multiply a team’s effectiveness.

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.

With an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn about this vibrant career field. Featuring the underlying mathematical and analytical principles of cost estimation, the book focuses on the tools and methods used to predict the research and development, production, and operating and support costs for successful cost estimation in industrial, business, and manufacturing processes.