Project Leadership

Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. It is a framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. Scrum is lightweight, simple to understand, and not difficult to master.

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.

Fraternity parties can be legendary, talked about by students, parents, alumni, and brothers for years to come. But one wrong move - a band pulling a no-show, not having enough money to pay entertainers, or the cops showing up - can turn a once-in-a-lifetime experience into a memorable failure. As the social chair of your fraternity, it's on you to guarantee every event your chapter hosts is an overwhelming success.

In his new book The Busy Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management,serial entrepreneur - and finalist for the laziest/most distracted person on the planet - Michael Clarke shares how to get more done (in less time) and achieve that relaxed, fulfilled (and insanely successful) entrepreneurial life you've always dreamed of. So if you'd like to finally master this thing called “Time Management” - and you've tried all the seminars and mantras but nothing seems to have stuck - then give The Busy Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management a try TODAY!

The need for precise, actionable, real-time Business Intelligence (BI) lies at the heart of the role of Big Data in modern commerce. In turn, the art of Data Science lies at the nexus of Big Data and BI, providing the essential methods by which BI can be extracted from Big Data's great black mass of constantly flowing, unstructured information. This combination has a created a new profession: an elite and specialized class of highly-compensated professionals specially skilled at data cleaning, analysis, and visualization.

This audiobook offers valuable finance concepts to IT Managers and Project Managers so that they can carry out cost benefit analysis, develop a business case to justify ROI of a project, secure funding, and execute the project. NPV, IRR, Payback Period, ROI, TCO, Capital vs. Operating Expense, Depreciation & Amortization, Outsourcing & Offshoring, Cost Benefit Analysis, and Business Case are presented in detail.

Bringen Sie Ihre Projekte mit den richtigen Techniken erfolgreich zum Ziel!

The agile practice is only one of the many iterative methods devised by development leaders in the past. Fundamentally speaking, iterative methods opposed the overly-incremental approach of the waterfall method by using a multitude of smaller phases. These phases encompass the main parts of the waterfall method (requirement, design, implementation, verification, and maintenance); but done so in smaller, more frequent increments.

Small changes can deliver big new product results. Are new products taking too long to develop and failing to deliver the bottom-line impact you need? Now you can accelerate your growth by identifying your innovation bottleneck - just one of the powerful new product development strategies revealed in Simplifying Innovation. As the story in this provocative business audiobook unfolds, you'll discover the first-ever approach to new product growth based on the Theory of Constraints.

This chapter-level audiobook can change the way you listen to big shots - mostly businesspersons with a snapshot or two of politicians - as they pontificate for public consumption and personal gain. You'll recognize the spin, that dastardly polite euphemism for lies that the advertising/PR folks coined years ago to anoint their profession with a bit of undeserved dignity. In the process, you might gain a more realistic grasp of what's going on around you and how your mind is being manipulated, or brainwashed.

Are you struggling with being organized? Do you have too much to do? Tired of forgetting important ideas or reminders? The truth is we're surrounded by so much "noise" (ideas, TV, social media, and advertising) that it's hard to slow down and keep track of the truly important things. One way to fix this problem? The Evernote app.

If you are a busy person who does a lot of note taking for either professional or personal reasons, then the Microsoft OneNote software would be perfect for you. This free, extremely easy to use, and quite comprehensible note-taking program is much more than merely a note-taking service. It actually contains a number of unique and extremely useful features that you will not find with any other word processor.

Scrum is a project management approach based on Agile principles that allows organisations and individuals to deliver the highest possible value in the shorted possible time. This framework has often been met with adversity as it is a departure to traditional methods, but has stood the test of time and has demonstrated through countless organisation that they are able to deliver more with less.

Etwa zwei Drittel aller Projekte stecken ständig oder akut in Schwierigkeiten - weil Auftraggeber immer neue Anforderungen formulieren, Vertragspartner oder Subunternehmer nicht leisten, was vereinbart wurde, oder Zeitdruck und interne Konflikte den Projekterfolg gefährden. Ausgehend von acht wesentlichen Rollen eines Projektleiters beschreibt der "Projekt-Kompass" schwierige Situationen, mit denen Sie früher oder später konfrontiert werden, und in denen Sie mit klassischen Projektmanagement-Methoden allein nicht weiterkommen.

When a company can get its best ideas to market faster, its leaders can be confident that their most important strategic decisions will be executed faithfully, and their visions for the company’s future will be realized. They are also able to be agile in response to market changes, pursue new opportunities, and achieve ambitious plans for growth.

Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task—from engaging with stakeholders and scoping out the full specification of the project, through to keeping a rein on costs and sticking to schedules. Manage Projects Successfully offers calm and practical advice to help you with setting priorities, communicating with others, monitoring progress and dealing with unexpected events.

Management is understood in different ways by different people. Economists regard it as a factor of production. Sociologists see it was a class or group of persons, while practitioners of management treat it as a process. For our understanding, management may be viewed as what a manager does in a formal organization to achieve objectives. It is called by Mary Parker Follet "the art of getting things done through people”. This definition throws light on the fact that managers achieve organizational goals by enabling others to perform rather than performing the tasks themselves.

Many people believe that project management is primarily suited for IT and engineering professionals. But the reality is that project management is becoming an important skill across many disciplines, such as HR, finance, and marketing. In fact, organizations are becoming much more project-oriented as they constantly search for ways to sustain a competitive advantage.

Senior managers speak the language of strategy. Project managers use the language of tasks and activities. While they rely on each other to achieve their goals, this core incompatibility leads to communication breakdowns and project setbacks. Succeeding with Senior Management explains how to bridge the gap and engage the upper ranks. By thinking like an executive, establishing relationships early on, and keeping them informed about progress, project managers win the support they need - especially critical when problems arise.

The project sponsor/executive/director is essential for any project, as this person is in charge and ultimately accountable for its success (or lack thereof). However, he or she is rarely trained in project management; rather they are likely to be a general manager or senior executive. Michiel van der Molen seeks to help these accidental project overseers understand their role and responsibilities, guiding them to proactively take control of the project.