Project management

Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package.

This book tells the story of an up-and-coming project manager that's been handed a large program to lead.

Organizations need to constantly innovate and improve products and services to maintain a strong competitive position in the market place.

While today's programs continue to grow in size and complexity, their success rates remain low.

Supplying busy project professionals with time-tested tips and templates for developing teams efficiently and effectively, Team Planning for Project Managers and Business Analysts provides the planning materials required to increase team collaboration and productivity in a global workplace.

Business-Driven IT-Wide Agile (Scrum) and Kanban (Lean) Implementation: An Action Guide for Business and IT Leaders explains how to increase IT delivery capabilities through the use of Agile and Kanban.

Finding ways to improve margins can be the difference between organizations that thrive and those that simply survive during times of economic uncertainty.

Program management is a rapidly emerging offshoot of project management.

Manufacturing companies work endlessly to make process improvements, yet they are often hard to implement and even harder to sustain.

This is not another how-to guide for program managers or another reiteration of the Project Management Institute's standards for program management.

This book provides an in-depth discussion of creativity and its relationship to project management.

Manufacturing Systems Management (MSM) is a functional domain that involves all of the activities for regulating and optimizing a manufacturing system as it progresses through its life cycle.

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Practical Project Management for Building and Construction covers the 14 knowledge areas of project management that are essential for successful projects in the construction industry.

The world is undergoing major transitions due to changes in three driving forces-population, climate, and energy resources-making it essential for us to achieve sustainability in the implementation of projects and programs as well as our everyday life.

Although the construction industry is one of the largest enterprises in the United States, widely accepted management principles, such as those contained in PMI's Standard for Program Management are still not widely implemented.

Supplying a clear vision of how to build high-performance teams, Leadership in Chaordic Organizations presents methods for improving operations through the application of complex systems engineering principles and psychological counseling techniques.

Aligning business intelligence (BI) infrastructure with strategy processes not only improves your organization's ability to respond to change, but also adds significant value to your BI infrastructure and development investments.

The widespread deployment of millions of current and emerging software applications has placed software economic studies among the most critical of any form of business analysis.

Project management methodologies, practices, and guidelines are the only explicit information that project managers have and, when properly maintained, should reflect the most current knowledge and guidance to achieve repeatable successful project outcomes.

This book takes a systematic approach to problem definition, generation of alternative solutions, analysis, and selection of the preferred solution.

The ongoing changes in population, climate, and the availability of energy have resulted in unprecedented threats and opportunities that all project and program managers, portfolio managers, and public planners need to be aware of.

Complexity theory is a great, untapped resource in the field of management.

Helpful to those tasked with managing complex environments, Projects and Complexity introduces a new way of looking at projects and fostering the culture needed to achieve sustainable results.

Although program management has received much attention in recent books, program governance remains a relatively new subject.

Before software engineering builds and installations can be implemented into software and/or systems integrations in military and aerospace programs, a comprehensive understanding of the software development life cycle is required.

Why is it that some improvement efforts succeed while others fail despite robust change management programs and the often do-or-die pressure to improve?

This updated and completely revised edition of a bestseller extends the concepts and considerations of modern project management into the realm of project management oversight, control, and support.

Although software development is one of the most complex activities carried out by man, sound development processes and proper project management can help ensure your software projects are delivered on time and under budget.

This book prepares readers to master an IT and managerial discipline quickly gaining momentum in organizations of all sizes - Business Process Management (BPM).

A proliferation of new technologies has lulled many into thinking that we actually have to think less about how we communicate.

Business-Driven IT-Wide Agile (Scrum) and Kanban (Lean) Implementation: An Action Guide for Business and IT Leaders explains how to increase IT delivery capabilities through the use of Agile and Kanban.

Winner of PMI's 2011 David I.

Dealing with such a multi-layered and fungible intangible as quality during the design and construction process is difficult for all parties involved.

Consistent success does not happen by chance.

Leadership success depends on clarifying and simplifying complex problems while maintaining a positive outlook.

Program management is a rapidly emerging offshoot of project management.

Emphasizing leadership principles and practices, Antipatterns: Managing Software Organizations and People, Second Edition catalogs 49 business practices that are often precursors to failure.

With the majority of IT projects being delivered late, over budget, or cancelled altogether, it is clear that traditional project management methodologies do not provide an effective framework for today's IT projects.

A guide to help readers meet the demands of an evolving competitive business environment, Modeling of Responsive Supply Chain outlines novel concepts and strategies for implementing a fully integrated system of business improvement methodologies.

When implemented correctly, release management can help ensure that quality is integrated throughout the development, implementation, and delivery of services, applications, and infrastructure.

Whether you use budget, schedule, quality, or other criteria, the statistics by think tanks, institutes, associations, and other trade organizations all point to one inescapable conclusion: your project has a greater chance of getting into trouble than staying out of it.

Any general management book can give you the basics of quality assurance, strategic planning, logistics, and more.

The ongoing changes in population, climate, and the availability of energy have resulted in unprecedented threats and opportunities that all project and program managers, portfolio managers, and public planners need to be aware of.

Recent computer-based tools for project planning and management focus on user-friendliness and interconnectivity.

Illustrating the why, what, and how of project management, Project Management Concepts, Methods, and Techniques will help readers develop and refine the skills needed to achieve strategic objectives.

Helpful to those tasked with managing complex environments, Projects and Complexity introduces a new way of looking at projects and fostering the culture needed to achieve sustainable results.

Este libro resume algunas de mis experiencias, estudios y reflexiones respecto al espinoso tema de la direccin de proyectos y las integra con la concepcin de proyectos que el PMI ha descrito en la GUA DE LOS FUNDAMENTOS PARA LA DIRECCIN DE PROYECTOS (GUA DEL PMBOK) Cuarta edicin, mejor conocida como el PMBOK a secas.

CMMI(R) for Development (CMMI-DEV) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their lifecycle.

Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this widely adopted text and practical reference addresses all aspects of developing and using geographic information systems (GIS) within an organization.