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Project Management Methodologies, Governance And Success - Insight From Traditional And Transformative Research

by Robert Joslin

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book takes a unique perspective by viewing project methodologies as an assemblage of elements. It takes a natural science perspective to view and explain the elements of a methodology and how they influence project success. Different perspectives provide new insight into the relationship among project methodology, governance and, success.
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Crusading And Masculinities

209,54€ + 10% CARD

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 This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity.
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Systems Engineering For Projects - Achieving Positive Outcomes In A Complex World

by Lory Mitchell Wingate

118,95€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is a comprehensive, go-to manual on the application of systems engineering processes to projects of all types and complexity.
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Managing Complex Construction Projects - A Systems Approach

by John K. Briesemeister

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 To many program, project, or construction managers, a complex project seems to be a labyrinth with many hidden dangers. This book is a guide through that labyrinth. It explains best practices and provides insight so they cannot only identify hidden dangers but also effectively manage the construction process to either mitigate or eliminate these risks.The book presents a systems-based approach to construction project management that can facilitate a greater understanding of the complexity inherent in large construction projects and how that complexity can be effectively managed. The systems approach permits the onsite construction project manager to take a complex construction project, break it down into manageable pieces, and ensure that all systems are in alignment with the original goal of the project. This approach combines industrial engineering, project management, and finance into a unified approach for effective management of complex construction projects, ranging from a power plant to a highway project.The book explains how to manage construction projects successfully through an approach based on the three following systems: <ul> <li>Project Management System</li> <li>Work Management System</li> <li>Quality Management System</li> </ul>The problem with complex programs and projects is that many managers are only equipped with a knowledge of project management. A system for construction is a collection of many processes effectively working together to produce a specific deliverable, which is usually defined in the program or project’s contract. This system has a series of specific inputs and outputs, which are what the customer expects from the company or companies performing the work. This book develops checklists based on these inputs and outputs, which managers can use when first arriving onsite, and provides a "nuts and bolts" approach for managing a complex construction project onsite. The author shares valuable lessons learned during a career of more than thirty years of working on various construction sites around the world. These lessons learned are filled with valuable information to aid readers become more effective as a program, project, or construction manager of complex construction projects.
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Human Change Management Body Of Knowledge (Hcmbok(R))

by Carla Campos e Vicente Gonçalves

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 This book presents change management in the language of project and process managers. The first part of this book presents the concept of change management, its players, strategies, and applicable models. The second part addresses best practices, methodology, and tools that make up the Human Change Management Body of Knowledge (HCMBOKÂ®).
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Managing Project Competence - The Lemon And The Loop

by Rolf Medina

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 The book presents a framework for managing competence in a knowledge-intensive, project-intensive context. It provides tools and templates that could support managers, project managers, HR representatives, and other people in leading positions in a more efficient management of people and competence.
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Project Management Beyond Waterfall And Agile

by Mounir Ajam

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 The book presents a flexible, universal, and integrated three-dimensional model for managing projects. The modelâ€™s three dimensions are project lifecycle, project management processes, and finally competences, sustainability, and best practices. The book explains how these dimensions are managed and how to apply and adapt the model.
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Creating A Greater Whole - A Project Manager’S Guide To Becoming A Leader

by Susan G. Schwartz

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 Creating a Greater Whole unlocks the not-so-secret secrets of what aspiring managers need to become strong leaders. This information-rich, easy to understand guide offers readers an immediate clear path to honing their leadership skills using the rigor and discipline of project management principles.
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Realizing Strategy Through Projects: The Executive'S Guide

by Carl Marnewick

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 The book focuses on the benefits of project management to the organization. The goal is to provide senior executives a view as what project management can deliver to the organizational strategies. The book covers the entire spectrum of project management from a management and leadership perspective.
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Pmi-Pba(R) Exam Practice Test And Study Guide

by Brian Williamson

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 Based on industry leading practices aligned to the PMIÂ®â€™s Business Analysis for Practitionersâ€"A Practice Guide, and the examination content outline (ECO) provides proven test taking strategies. This indispensable study guide includes 20 multiple-choice practice questions for each domain, along with a challenging 200-question practice test.
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Earned Benefit Program Management - Aligning, Realizing, And Sustaining Strategy

by Crispin Piney

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 The book addresses the principal aspects of program management. It focuses on an innovative benefits realization model and calculation technique. The model is then integrated with fresh approaches to schedule, risk and issue management, capacity planning, procurement, and the earned benefit method for integrated progress tracking.
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Handbook Approximation Algorithms - Two-Volume Set

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 This handbook reflects the tremendous growth in the field, over the past two decades. Through contributions from leading experts, this handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory and methodologies, as well as the various applications of approximation algorithms and metaheuristics.
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Entrepreneurial Project Manager

by Chris Cook

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 Entrepreneurs must stay cutting-edge to make their businesses thrive. This book features a cutting-edge approach to project management that enables you to take your technical skills as a project manager, add the elements of an entrepreneur, and create a high-powered team around you as well as become the best project manager you can be.
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Leading And Motivating Global Teams - Integrating Offshore Centers And The Head Office

by Vimal Kumar Khanna

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book provides techniques for offshore center managers and head office managers to motivate and manage globally distributed teams, and thereby achieve higher productivity. Readers learn how to integrate the offshore center with the head office to make the offshore team an extension of the head office.
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Realizing Strategy Through Projects: The Executive'S Guide

by Carl (University Of Johannesburg) Marnewick

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 The book focuses on the benefits of project management to the organization. The goal is to provide senior executives a view as what project management can deliver to the organizational strategies. The book covers the entire spectrum of project management from a management and leadership perspective.
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The Entrepreneurial Project Manager

by Chris Cook

89,21€ + 10% CARD

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 Entrepreneurs must stay cutting-edge to make their businesses thrive. This book features a cutting-edge approach to project management that enables you to take your technical skills as a project manager, add the elements of an entrepreneur, and create a high-powered team around you as well as become the best project manager you can be.
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Project Management Beyond Waterfall And Agile

by Mounir Ajam

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 The book presents a flexible, universal, and integrated three-dimensional model for managing projects. The modelâ€™s three dimensions are project lifecycle, project management processes, and finally competences, sustainability, and best practices. The book explains how these dimensions are managed and how to apply and adapt the model.
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Project And Program Turnaround

by Thomas Pavelko

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 The U.S. economy thrives on the development of new products, new systems, and new processes. Usually, these advances start as a flash of inspiration by highly creative individuals. It is complex and difficult to go from initial inspiration to a final product, process, or system. So it is not surprising that approximately one out of every four development programs fails. A development program or project in trouble is distinct from a program encountering typical development difficulties. Such a program or project can appear to be in free fall.This book identifies the essential fundamentals for executing a program or project turnaround effectively. These fundamentals include:<ul> <li>Clearly identifying the next critical accomplishment needed for success</li> <li>Assigning responsibility for each program task to one person</li> <li>Capitalizing on colocation and face-to-face communication</li> <li>Recruiting problem solvers</li> <li>Wining commitment from team members</li> <li>Using team accomplishments to propel high team morale </li> </ul>The guidance provided in this book is applicable to all program or project genres, including manufacturing, nonprofit work, education, medicine, investment management, and municipal management.Software has become a great part of both providing product functionality and assisting with managing product development. A special chapter devoted to software development dispels common misconceptions and provides guidance for turning around this special type of project or program. This book is a highly valuable source of insight for a wide range of readers, including management professionals, business students, and executive managers. Every member of a product or project development team will find its recommendations to be of high value.
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Benefits Realization Management - Strategic Value From Portfolios, Programs, And Projects

by Carlos Eduardo Martins Serra

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 Benefits realization management (BRM) is a key part of governance, because it supports the strategic creation of value and provides the correct level of prioritization and executive support to the correct initiatives. Because of its relevance to the governance process, BRM has a strong influence over project success and is a link between strategic planning and strategy execution.This book guides portfolio, program, and project managers through the process of benefits realization management so they can maximize business value. It discusses why and how programs and projects are expected to enable value creation, and it explains the role of BRM in value creation. The book provides a flexible framework for: <ul> <li>Translating business strategy drivers into expected benefits and explains the subsequent composition of a program and project portfolio that can realize expected benefits</li> <li>Planning the benefits realization expected from programs and projects and then making it happen</li> <li>Keeping programs and projects on track</li> <li>Reviewing and evaluating the benefits achieved or expected against the original baselines and the current expectations.</li> </ul>To help project, program, and portfolio managers on their BRM journey, as well as to support business managers in executing business strategies, the book identifies key organizational responsibilities and roles involved in BRM practices, and it provides a simple reference that can be mapped against any organizational structure. A detailed and comprehensive case study illustrates each phase of the BRM framework as it links business strategy to project work, benefits, and business value. Each chapter ends with a series questions that provide a BRM self-assessment. The book concludes with a set of templates and detailed instructions to ensure successful deployment of BRM.
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Project Portfolio Management In Theory And Practice - Thirty Case Studies From Around The World

by Jamal Moustafaev

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 Every CEO in the world, if questioned, will always complain that there are a lot of ideas to implement, but, unfortunately, insufficient resources to accomplish them. This book provides a solution to this dilemma by supplying techniques to assess the value of projects, prioritize projects, and decide which projects to implement and which to postpone. In addition, it describes various methods of balancing project portfolios and different strategic alignment models. The book provides thirty real-life project portfolio management case studies from pharmaceutical, product development, financial, energy, telecommunications, not-for-profit and professional services industries.
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It Project Management: A Geek'S Guide To Leadership

by Byron A. Love

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 This book’s author, Byron Love, admits proudly to being an IT geek. However, he had found that being an IT geek was limiting his career path and his effectiveness. During a career of more than 31 years, he has made the transition from geek to geek leader. He hopes this book helps other geeks do the same.This book addresses leadership issues in the IT industry to help IT practitioners lead from the lowest level. Unlike other leadership books that provide a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership, this book focuses on the unique challenges that IT practitioners face.IT project managers may manage processes and technologies, but people must be led. The IT industry attracts people who think in logical ways—analytical types who have a propensity to place more emphasis on tasks and technology than on people. This has led to leadership challenges such as poor communication, poor relationship management, and poor stakeholder engagement. Critical IT projects and programs have failed because IT leaders neglect the people component of "people, process, and technology."Communications skills are key to leadership. This book features an in-depth discussion of the communications cycle and emotional intelligence, providing geek leaders with tools to improve their understanding of others and to help others understand them. To transform a geek into a geek leader, this book also discusses:<ul> <li>Self-leadership skills so geek leaders know how to lead others by leading themselves first</li> <li>Followership and how to cultivate it among team members</li> <li>How a geek leader’s ability to navigate disparate social styles leads to greater credibility and influence</li> <li>Integrating leadership into project management processes</li> </ul>The book concludes with a case study to show how to put leadership principles and practices into action and how an IT geek can transform into an effective IT geek leader.
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Ethics And Governance In Project Management - Small Sins Allowed And The Line Of Impunity

by Alicia Medina e Eduardo Victor Lopez

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book shows executive, project, program, and portfolio managers how ethical behavior can ensure that an organization has proper governance. Improper governance and unethical behavior have led to such well-known financial disasters as Enron and Madoff Investments. The book arms managers with two important tools: Small Sins Allowed (SSA) and Line of Impunity (LoI), which together can be the foundation for renewed and vigorous corporate governance. SSA is a powerful tool that helps managers establish a level above which adherence to ethical standards is expected. LoI aids managers in identifying ethical fault lines that may exist in a company and helps to keep unethical behavior in check.
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Situational Project Management - The Dynamics Of Success And Failure

by Oliver F. Lehmann

83,46€ + 10% CARD

 Most project managers would agree that every project is unique. But not all project managers would agree that the best way to manage a unique project is unique. Many still cling to the old practice of having a methodology that is applied to all projects. "One size fits all" is still in common use, and this approach has proven to lead to project failure. Flexibility, situational intelligence, and creativity are essential to deliver project success.The need to recognize and master ever-changing requirements and environmental conditions is a tough challenge for professional project managers. The same practices that led to success yesterday may cause failure today. Selecting favorable responses to a given situation is often the most critical factor of the dynamics of success and failure. This book is designed to help project professionals assess a situation, predict the appropriate approach, methodology and achieving styles, and then apply them in a situational fashion.To guide project managers in selecting the appropriate responses, Situational Project Management (SitPM) shows how to assess a given project, determine its unique characteristics, and select the appropriate methods to complete the project. With this book, projects managers can use SitPM to develop profiles of their projects on the basis of the projects’ physical characteristics, the project teams’ behavioral characteristics, the enterprise environment, and the market environments receiving project deliverables. These profiles help project managers to determine the appropriate project life cycle approach and leadership style. The book also explores various ways to engage stakeholders on the basis of a project’s SitPM profile. The book’s author, Oliver F. Lehmann, has developed a set of templates to apply SitPM in practice. It can be downloaded from www.oliverlehmann.com/SitPM/Templates.zip.
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Leading And Managing Innovation - What Every Executive Team Must Know About Project, Program, And Portfolio Management, Second Edition

by Russell D. Archibald e Shane Archibald

50,34€ + 10% CARD

 The primary cause of many project failures is that responsible executives, because of their lack of knowledge in project management, fail to demand that their managers and staff properly utilize the well-proven best practices, processes, systems, and tools that are now available in this field. This book remedies this situation by providing executives at all levels with the understanding and knowledge needed to best take advantage of the power of effective project management and thereby lead and manage innovations within their enterprise.In Leading and Managing Innovation: What Every Executive Team Must Know about Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, Second Edition, the authors present concise descriptions of<ul> <li>The key concepts underlying project and program management</li> <li>The important characteristics of projects and programs</li> <li>How projects and programs are best governed and managed</li> <li>How to determine if the desired benefits have actually been achieved</li> </ul>The book presents a list of 31 reasonable demands that executives can and must place on their staff members to ensure excellence in the way their programs and projects are created, selected for funding, planned, and executed. Placing these demands communicates to the entire enterprise that top management understands what it takes to achieve the best performance possible and fully supports the continuous improvement needed to ensure continued success.Leading and Managing Innovation explains how to measure the project management maturity level of an enterprise, benchmark against competitors, and identify where project management improvements are required. It discusses the many ways that an enterprise can derive substantial success and competitive advantage from increasing its project management maturity level.A helpful quick reference summary of all of the book’s key information is included in the final chapter. Armed with this information, you will be well-qualified to give excellent direction to your managers and staff to ensure that your vital capability in the field of project management—and how you manage innovation—is equal to or better than that of your competitors.
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