Project Leadership

The ‘I’ in Agile: A Personal Journey is about my battle with Agile and the challenges I faced.

So, you think you want to be a freelance writer and you are looking at doing some ghostwriting. Well, ghostwriting is hard work! Yet when properly managed and priced, ghostwriting can be one of the most lucrative freelance writing careers. This book goes through how to successfully run a ghostwriting project, from the initial contact with a prospective client to delivering the completed work. Potential pitfalls are discussed in detail, along with solutions and suggestions.

Writing a book is hard! There are so many details to handle, and not everything can be done in order, one thing at a time. How can an author juggle so many things without having a crisis? By using Project Management for Writers. Project management is a process and set of skills, tools, and techniques used to accomplish even massive undertakings by every successful company, including NASA. Getting to the moon was a big project, wouldn’t you say?

¿Qué me da a mí, Tony Smart, el poder y la fuerza para guiarte a través de este libro? Las directrices e ideas de este libro son el resultado de mi amplia experiencia en la gestión de proyectos. He gestionado, implementado y entregado con éxito innumerables proyectos, incluyendo complejos proyectos globales basados en infraestructuras. Como gerente de proyectos, he supervisado planes nuevos y de modificación utilizando recursos en tierra, en el mar y de terceros.

Are you already working in scrum but stuck in a rut? o you know the basics of scrum but don’t feel like you can adequately support your team? Scope creep, team members showing up late, challenging stakeholders...sound familiar? Scrum Mastery goes beyond the basics of Scrum. You will learn how to become a skilled scrum master who is more than just a meeting facilitator, and how to lead your team to greatness. This book is for people and organizations who are serious about scrum, agile, and looking for more in-depth advice.

La conduite d'une démarche de changement est un exercice difficile. Souvent, elle dure plus longtemps que prévu, coûte plus cher que prévu et est parfois même abandonnée pour revenir vite à l'état initial. Les bonnes intentions et l'engagement des décideurs, la pertinence du but recherché ne sont pas des garanties de succès. Il ne suffit pas d'expliquer que le changement proposé est bon, intelligent, utile, stratégique. Le changement est aussi question de méthode et d'outils.

Did you always want to be a great project manager, able to manage projects like a breeze, but you can’t figure out the best way to do it? This audiobook can change things for you.... You see, managing projects doesn't have to be difficult. Even if you have tried multiple project management methodologies, it is easier than you might imagine.

Projekte effizienter, schneller und kontrollierbarer abschließen. Modernes Projektmanagement bedeutet agiles Projektmanagement! Egal ob Sie als Anfänger Ihr erstes Projekt betreuen oder schon Fortgeschrittener in diesem Bereich sind - begeistern Sie Ihre Vorgesetzten, Mitarbeiter und vor allem Ihre Kunden mit den exklusiven Management-Modellen aus diesem Ratgeber und werden Sie sofort zum Top-Leader! Entdecken Sie die agile Methode SCRUM und profitieren Sie von den enormen Vorteilen für Ihr Unternehmen und Ihren persönlichen Erfolg.

Dieses Hörbuch zeigt den Hörerinnen und Hörer auf, wie mithilfe der SCRUM Technik ein agiles Projektmanagement durchgeführt werden kann. Die Tipps und Tricks, die hier detailliert und einfach verständlich aufgeführt werden, stellen einen effizienten Weg dar, damit Unternehmen ihre Projekte nicht nur schneller, sondern auch zielführender und kontrollierbarer gestalten.

这里面没有职场厚黑，没有勾心斗角，有的只是一个勤奋又爱动脑筋的职场小虾米，与大家分享她最实在的工作窍门，在工作中的痛和快乐，以及对职场和对人生的感悟……這裡面沒有職場厚黑，沒有勾心鬥角，有的只是一個勤奮又愛動腦筋的職場小蝦米，與大家分享她最實在的工作竅門，在工作中的痛和快樂，以及對職場和對人生的感悟……

Never Go Shopping When You're Hungry: Simple Strategies for Clear Results in Business is a refreshing and thought-provoking guide to successful projects by Paul Colligan. Using the relatable analogy of grocery shopping while hungry, Colligan explores the idea of distraction and its potential to skew our actions and decisions, just as hunger can lead us to make impulsive and often unwise choices at the grocery store.

We often associate procrastinators with laziness, disorganization, and a lack of work ethic, when in reality, procrastination can boost creativity and energy while also reducing those pesky perfectionist tendencies that stifle creative thought. Learn how to procrastinate like the professions. Enjoy quality time with friends and family, take a walk in the park, enjoy a nice book, take that afternoon nap. Learn the five easy steps to a well-balanced life with the power of procrastination.

How effective are your user stories? Agile is a pragmatic-approach mind-set. Scrum provides you a framework, but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically create user stories in Scrum.

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.

In The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Growth, renowned business adviser Stephen Dann sets out the methods, tools, and techniques to enable your business to develop, thrive, and grow so you can achieve your business and personal goals.

Marketing moves at a faster pace than ever. Many teams have implemented practices utilizing Agile principles, such as Scrum, Kanban, or similar methods, to varying success. While the principles of Agile approaches offer the prioritization, collaboration, and focus on continuous improvement that can provide great results, many teams struggle with implementation of these methods.

Die Welt dreht am großen Krisenrad. Die Bedrohung durch Veränderungen ist auf allen Märkten von der Ausnahme zur Normalität geworden. Die Welt dreht am großen Krisenrad. Und mittendrin: Sie als Unternehmer, der, um diesen Krisen und Unwägbarkeiten zu begegnen, immer neue Projekte anschieben – und allzu oft zusehen muss, wie dabei nichts vorwärtsgeht. Michael G. Schmidt kennt die frustrierende Situation, in der Sie als Unternehmer stecken, wenn Sie immer wieder reagieren müssen und vor lauter Krisenmanagement nicht mehr ins Agieren kommen.

The work of a marketing team continues to expand to include more channels, quicker response times, and more variations of content, offers, and campaigns that personalization demands. Agile marketing can help brands be more nimble and adaptive to both internal and external pressures. Doing this requires a combination of people and processes that utilize methods like Scrum and the related practices and roles associated with creating, managing, and completing work utilizing agile principles.

In Project Management for You, Cesar unlocks these tested and proven principles that allow big corporations like Apple and Google to make detailed promises of new products and services to their customer base months in advance and still deliver it 100 percent of the time. Easy to understand, skipping the corporate lingo, and using powerful and colorful stories, Cesar will take you step by step through the stages of bringing an idea to reality.

For over 20 years, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects has been a staple for upper managers who want to help projects succeed. This new edition includes case studies from companies that have successfully applied the approach.