Project Leadership

Great engineers don't necessarily make great leaders—at least, not without a lot of work. Finding your path to becoming a strong leader is often fraught with challenges. It's not easy to figure out how to be strategic, successful, and considerate while also being firm. Whether you're on the management or individual contributor track, you need to develop strong leadership skills. This practical book shows you how to become a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader.

"Maximizing Profits with Chatbots: A Small Business Guide to Setup and Benefits" is an essential resource for small business owners who want to harness the power of chatbots to improve customer service, streamline operations, and drive profits. This guide covers everything from understanding the different types of chatbots to setting up and optimizing them for your business. Learn how chatbots can provide 24/7 support, personalize customer interactions, and automate lead generation, all while saving costs and boosting efficiency.

A lot of business owners and managers get many things right, but there are also things they can do better. Take communication skills for example: Are you really effective enough at communicating? Are you good at delegating responsibilities? Aside from this, we’ll touch on the topic of project management. People who work in projects typically achieve more if they have been executed effectively. Real leaders get things done fast and proficiently. Are you that leader yet?

In this hilarious, fascinating and insightful expose, industry insider Peter Smith reveals the massive blunders and dodgy dealings taking place around the world as private companies and public-sector bodies buy goods and services. A recent report showed that over 90 per cent of procurement projects fail. So, why are so many billions wasted on ineptitude, mismanagement and, in some cases, fraud?

The Agile community has always needed a tell-all audiobook on early starts in Scrum that reflects not only on the insights and theories of thought leaders from the Cohn signature series but on updated experience collected from the Agile trenches. What happens in the wild varies widely, and with digital landscape changing at an exponential rate, so do the demands of the Agile marketplace. This audiobook will help you save months if not years of figuring out the avoidable hardships of the early Scrum career.

Despite Agile's dominance in software development, 81% of UK and 89% of US business leaders are concerned about the timely delivery of projects. The success rates for transformation initiatives are alarming, with 96% of Agile transformations and 70% of digital transformations failing. Just 10% of companies that enter restructuring survive the process. Personal transformation success is also exceedingly rare, with only 7.5% of smokers successfully quitting despite 55% attempting to quit each year and just 1.8% of obese individuals maintaining a modest 5% weight loss over five years.

You've been asked to manage a key project—or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics.

You have probably always dreamed about managing large projects for awesome companies or organizations. You have most likely dreamed about using a way to manage projects more effectively and more efficiently. The message I want to share with you can help you get closer to your dream. Maybe, you've never managed a project before. Perhaps, you've overseen projects previously, but without any success or very little success. I know you want to change things for the better, but the question might be:how? There’s a way to handle projects with more flow.

An official ITIL® Licensed product, ITIL® Foundation Essentials is a distillation of critical information - no waffle or padding; just exactly what you need to understand how to pass the ITIL Foundation exam. Created for self-study candidates, ITIL community training delegates, itSMF/BCS members, and V2 Foundation Certificate holders who have yet to take an upgraded exam, this pocket guide is fully aligned with the ITIL 2011 core volumes.

Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience endless delays? And most importantly, which products work better - the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation leads to superior equipment? In this story-filled blend of quirky pop culture and practical engineering insight, Dan Ward presents an entertaining and useful framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation.

The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial skills, as a result the lore concerning the magic of teams has been lost. Leadership: Building Highly Effective Teams, provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective collaborative team environment.

In the fast-paced world of engineering, effective project management is essential for success. The Engineer’s Guide to Project Management: Practical Strategies for Success offers engineers a practical framework to navigate complex projects with confidence. This comprehensive guide merges technical expertise with strategic planning and leadership, providing actionable insights for each stage of the project lifecycle.

A team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service. Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been categorized to make it easy to find and implement when you need it most. You’ll learn how and where to start, when to bet big, how to invest, when to play the long game, what to communicate, and much more.

Leading an Agile team calls for unexpected changes and typical project management tactics. You simply can't approach an Agile project with the same mentality as you usually use. Agile teams are self-organized, self-directing, and lack a hierarchical structure that often defines project management.

Real estate investing has great growth potential, and you can make money in a variety of funding streams. This book will give you real, practical, and useful tools to help you decide how to proceed. Creating passive income can provide you the opportunity to grow your wealth and improve your financial portfolio. Specifically, I will explain how you can use real estate investing as a passive income platform.

2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro :Gestión Ágil de Proyectos: Cómo Hacer más Felices a sus Clientes mientras Reduce Costos Monetarios, Temporales y de Esfuerzo y Kanban: La guía definitiva de la metodología Kanban para el desarrollo de software ágil. Escucha para más.... La primera parte de este libro incluye: Una definición clara sobre la gestión ágil de proyectos, una comparación detallada entre este tipo de gestión y los modelos tradicionales, y más. Al leer la segunda parte de este libro, usted: Descubrir qué es el sistema Kanban y más.

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.

Would you like to know the best strategies for managing large projects? Whether you want to (1) enhance your project management skills, (2) learn how to effectively lead a project team, or (3) discover world class strategies for managing large projects, this audiobook will guide you there. Learn how to organize and lead your team to success. Project management is the process of managing a complex project for a business or organization to deliver an end result that will improve the business and the bottom line.

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.

Jennifer Dulski, the head of Groups at Facebook, and former president of Change.org, explains how you can turn your mission into a movement that creates change - whether you're at a startup or a political campaign, at a Fortune 500 company or a local community group, or an intern or a CEO. Anyone can spark change if they believe in the power of taking action, no matter where, or how small, they start. Dulski explains how to create a clear vision, inspire supporters, persuade decision makers, navigate criticism, and more.