This book enhances learning about complex project management principles and practices through the introduction and discussion of a portfolio of tools presented as an evolving toolbox.
With the acceleration of technology and information, projects are becoming more complex, costly, and time-constrained -- and every year thousands of them get cancelled or end up costing significantly more than their original projections.
The PMI-PBA(R) Exam Practice Test and Study Guide attempts to address all your questions and concerns by providing two of the most sought-after study aids: memory maps and practice questions.
This tenth edition of David Chappell's bestselling guide has been revised to take into account changes made in 2016 to payment provisions, loss and/or expense, insurance and many other smaller but significant changes, and includes a section on performance bonds and guarantees.
In this gripping and colorful account of the American dream gone astray, Lewis Pinault provides the essential guidelines on how to get ahead and an enlightening perspective on the brutal infighting that can engulf even the most civilized consulting firm.
Emphasizing leadership principles and practices, Antipatterns: Managing Software Organizations and People, Second Edition catalogs 49 business practices that are often precursors to failure.
Speed, social change, historical inheritance and cultural gaps are key factors which have significant impact on global collaboration and global sourcing.
Power Up Product Management: A Quick Start Guide delivers a compact guide with expert guidance, tools, and exercises that empower new product managers to excel in their first weeks in their new position.
Construction Cost Estimating equips a new generation of students and early-career professionals with the skills they need to bid successfully on projects.
Use Visual Studio(R) Team Foundation Server 2012 and Agile Methods to Deliver Higher Value Software Faster This is the definitive guide to applying agile development and modern software engineering practices with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012-Microsoft's complementary Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform.
Das Buch beschreibt anschaulich die Ergebnisse der Nachhaltigkeitsmaßnahme „it’s owl – VorZug; Vorausschau – Die Zukunft vorausdenken und gestalten“ des Spitzencluster it’s owl – Intelligente technische Systeme Ostwestfalen-Lippe.
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Building on their breakthrough bestsellers Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck's latest book shows software leaders and team members exactly how to drive high-value change throughout a software organization-and make it stick.
Currently, the prime focus for US business plans should not be on the manufacturing process design and delivery processes, but on greatly improving innovation leadership, design engineering capability, and sales and marketing innovation.
Trends rund um Technologie, Demographie und Globalisierung lassen den Wettbewerb nicht nur härter werden, sondern sorgen dafür, dass Geschäftsmodelle schneller denn je entstehen und auch wieder verschwinden.
This book highlights essential concepts, models, and processes that help those responsible for making pricing decisions - whether professionally or privately - to effectively engage in product pricing activities.
This third book from editors Rick Best and Jim Meikle brings together and presents insights into a number of key concepts in the study of construction firms, projects and the group of activities that loosely define the construction industry.
The PRINCE2 Agile(R) Practical Implementation Guide - Step-by-step advice for every project type, Second edition explains how the structured, management-driven PRINCE2 project governance framework can work cohesively with team-driven, quality-focused, responsive Agile methods.
Valuable business skills from a leading project management expertTo make the leap from average to superior, you must develop the skills to manage each project like a small business.
When Fortune Magazine estimated that 70% of all strategies fail, it also noted that most of these strategies were basically sound, but could not be executed.
A pragmatic approach to project management Many projects fail to deliver on time or on budget, or even to deliver a workable product that satisfies the customer.
Utilize this comprehensive guide in your organization to create a corporate incubator that protects innovative ideas from oppressive corporate processes and culture and gives those ideas the resources and environment they need to grow and have the best possible chance to thrive.
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.
In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, this new book provides thought provoking commentary on the nature of the relationship between society, the prevailing economic system and professionalism in the built environment.
Dieses Buch zeigt auf, wie sich agile Methoden des Projektmanagements für die Planung und Durchführung von kleinen und mittleren Projekten im Berufsalltag ganz pragmatisch anwenden lassen.
The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volumes as state-of-the-art papers documenting research and innovative practice in the field of construction.
Better Learning Solutions Through Better Learning ExperiencesWhen training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer.
A must-read in the wake of COVID-19, this book unpacks the nature of resilient organizations and how they prepare for unpredictable, complex, and profound change.