Project Management Leadership

This audiobook contains succinct descriptions and insights into effective project management for you and your organization.

If you listen to the news, robots are coming for your job. Full-time employment will soon be a thing of the past as organizations opt more to hire employees on a contract basis. With technological advances across email, video, project management, and instant messaging platforms, being tied to a desk working full time for one company is becoming obsolete. So, where does that leave you? The Human Cloud may be the most important book you hear to prepare for how work is done in the future.

With a lot of content and a multitude of brand new techniques, this guide is for those who are willing to make real improvements in what they are doing. You will be shown how to break out of the administrative death cycle, the difference between valuable and cursed PMOs, how to rally your people - building momentum and community, how to overcome the cultural mishaps that undermine PMOs, and more.

Becoming a Boardroom Star is designed to offer practical advice and insights to directors who want to shine in the boardroom - earning the genuine esteem of their peers, the respect of senior management, and most importantly, adding real value for stakeholders. Not only is it brimming with terrific ideas to help you raise your boardroom game and avoid common pitfalls, it’s fun to listen to - a refreshing take on the sometimes stodgy world of governance.

This new edition of a classic, best-selling guide addresses the soft project management skills that are so essential to successful project, program, and portfolio management. Mastering leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management, and organizational politics has always been key to project manager success. This book demonstrates the why and how of creatively applying soft project management skills in these areas and shows how to develop, adjust, and hone these skills given the forces and trends in today’s business world.

This is where your career finally takes off as the leader of your own dedicated team! Are you ready to start earning more by learning how to become a successful product manager? Have you managed to get an interview for a product manager position and need help on how to go about it? The product manager plays a central and crucial role in any company. In a world driven by the consumption of products, they get to decide what products to create, how to sell them, and who to sell them to. So, if you aspire to become one, you’ve got to be ready for it.

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.

This step-by-step guide to project management teaches how to manage a project from start to finish. Discover pitfalls you need to avoid and challenges you may encounter while managing your project in this comprehensive guide.

이 책은 대한민국 국내 최고의 건설사업관리(PM) 전문 기업 한미글로벌을 설립한 후 24년간 성장시켜 전 세계 58개국에 진출, 당당히 글로벌 10위권에 입성시킨 김종훈 회장이 2,500개 프로젝트를 진행하는 동안 경험에서 추출해낸 성공 공식을 정리하여 국내 건설 산업의 발전을 바라고 도모하는 모든 이들에게 내미는 응원과 독려의 메시지다. 또한 대한민국 100대 CEO에 15번 선정된 경영자로서 저자의 경험과 노하우가 이 한 권의 책에 응축되어 있다.

With an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn about this vibrant career field. Featuring the underlying mathematical and analytical principles of cost estimation, the book focuses on the tools and methods used to predict the research and development, production, and operating and support costs for successful cost estimation in industrial, business, and manufacturing processes.

Scrum focuses on delivering high-quality products at a lower cost within a shorter period. Simply put, scrum is all about being efficient and effective while making the most of your team’s resources. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Fortunately, all of this is very much a reality. Organizations such as LEGO, Cisco, and Samsung have all successfully utilized scrum to to continually built upon their business processes while improving efficiency.

Over the last decade and a half, agile project management has surged in popularity across the globe. Organizations of all types and sizes have leveraged agile with enviable results. Agile project management is a flexible, responsive, and powerful tool for a project manager's toolkit. As a project manager, you know that agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about agile to reap the rewards?

Project management is about amplifying the output of others and being the best version of yourself, as both a project manager and a human being. The knowledge contained in this guide provides information designed to transform old methodologies, introduce new ones, and rejuvenate proven practices for successful people management.

Gorilla in the Cockpit offers a revolutionary way to understand megaproject failures. It opens the black box to reveal the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial. They are human.

Navigate the world of Agile and Scrum with ease and confidence using this comprehensive guide. This book will introduce you to the basics of Agile and Scrum, two of the most popular and effective project management and software development methodologies.

This audiobook provides project managers with five simple checklists to manage projects using a standard work approach that contains most of the principles found in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). If you manage projects, this audiobook will provide you a simple approach to deliver quality results, whether you’re just starting out or if you’ve been managing projects for years.

Nada es más inspirador que una ambiciosa visión que se convierte en una realidad triunfante: el Empire State Building pasó de ser un boceto a cambiar el skyline de Nueva York en tan solo veintiún meses. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las veces las grandes visiones se convierten en auténticas pesadillas: según las estadísticas, un asombroso 92 por ciento de los megaproyectos superan el presupuesto o el cronograma, o ambas cosas. Incluso los esfuerzos más modestos, como emprender un pequeño negocio, suelen fracasar.

In A Symphony of Choices, workplace culture and strategy expert Gerald Leonard delivers a fascinating narrative following one Jerry Hall, the new Symphony Orchestra manager at a prestigious symphony concerned about the challenging plans for an upcoming season. In the book, you'll watch Jerry connect with a former college professor and learn the skills necessary to successfully manage his way through these unprecedented times in his business and personal life.

In Fostering Innovation: How to Build an Amazing IT Team, accomplished technology strategist, executive, and leader Andrew Laudato delivers an eye-opening exploration of how to design, build, staff, and run a high-performing IT department. The book is filled with universally applicable strategies and techniques that can transform any IT team into an all-star cast perfectly aligned with your organization's objectives.

Building Digital Products is designed for the new Product Manager who feels in way over their head, the experienced Product Manager looking to step up his or her game, and the expert Product Manager who understands that there is always more to learn. Building Digital Products maps the full development cycle from problem identification to selling your solution, to understanding the right data to track.