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  • Breaking Through the Project Fog

    How Smart Organizations Achieve Success by Creating, Selecting and Executing On-Strategy Projects

    by James Norrie ...
    Series Book 20 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Series - Canada
    A trail of mismanaged or terminated projects in recent years has cost the North American economy $100 to $150 billion dollars annually in lost productivity and shareholders capital. Unfortunately, the gap between project selection and project execution is often symptomatic of the onset of Project Fog, an all too familiar business situation in which projects are started and stopped constantly; ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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    by Barbara Carkenord ...
    Business analysis is the fastest growing field in business today and the role of the business analyst is both strategic and tactical. Business analysts are part strategist, part program or project manager, part architect and part systems analyst. They work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, and communicate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and ... Read more

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  • 60 Minute:Scrum

    60 Minute Guides, #1

    by Stewart Lancaster ...
    Series Book 1 - 60 Minute Guides
    Anyone working in the projects space today will no doubt be familiar with the pressure to deliver too much with too few resources. This book has been written with this in mind and is designed to provide an introduction to the core Scrum framework.Scrum is a light weight framework built predominantly on Agile principles which has often been described as "easy to learn, hard to master". It has ... Read more

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  • The Value Imperative

    Harvesting Value from Your IT Initiatives

    by Robert Collins, Gerald G. Grant ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations. The old way of thinking has not served organizations well. They continue to experience high levels of technological and operational failures even though they apply a wide variety of industry best practices. The rapid pace of technological ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Delivering Exceptional Project Results

    A Practical Guide to Project Selection, Scoping, Estimation and Management

    by Jamal Moustafaev ...
    This unique how-to implementation guide unifies project management, portfolio management, and requirements engineering into one proven, comprehensive best practice framework to help organizations deliver exceptional project results on a consistent basis. Delivering Exceptional Project Results transcends differences in the various “types” of project management, such as traditional or agile, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Project Management, Planning and Control

    Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards

    by Albert Lester ...
    Covering the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, Project Management, Planning and Control is an established and widely recommended project management handbook. With clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling and control, which can pose particular challenges in engineering environments, this sixth edition ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Jira Software Essentials

    Plan, track, and release great applications with Jira Software

    by Patrick Li ...
    Explore Jira Software to manage your projects proficientlyKey FeaturesPlan and manage projects effortlessly with Jira Software by integrating it with other applicationsImprove your team's performance with Scrum and Kanban, together with agile methodologyEasy-to-follow learning guide to install Jira Software and understand how it fits in with Atlassian JiraBook DescriptionJira Software is an agile ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Project Recovery

    Case Studies and Techniques for Overcoming Project Failure

    by Harold Kerzner ...
    Best practices for picking up the pieces when projects failThere are plenty of books available offering best practices that help you keep your projects on track, but offer guidance on what to do when the worst has already happened. Some studies show that more than half of all large-scale project fail either fail completely, or at least miss targeted budget and scheduling goals. These failures cost ... Read more

    $67.00 USD

  • Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers

    A detailed guide to self-employment for software and web developers - from identifying your target market, through to managing your time, finances, and client behavior

    by Leon Brown ...
    Key FeaturesBook DescriptionNo matter whether you are a student or an industry veteran, self employment adds a new dimension of opportunities to “learn and earn”, whether it be on a full-time or part-time basis. Develop the business acumen and understanding of the link between software patterns and business strategy that you need to become a successful and profitable independent software developer ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crisis Leadership

    How to lead in times of crisis, threat and uncertainty

    by Tim Johnson ...
    Anyone in a leadership position is only too aware that we live in uncertain times: disaster can strike any business, at any time, and usually without warning. Public institutions, too, face a range of threats – from global recession, resurgent terrorism and a stream of appalling natural disasters. For leaders in such organisations, these crisis situations can present both opportunities and threats ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery

    by Alan Fowler ...
    Despite two decades of investment in project management as many as 80 per cent of business change and IT projects continue to rack up cost overruns and fail to deliver their expected benefits. Business people who must have more certainty in their project investments will find this book refreshing. It contains commonsense but groundbreaking techniques that deal with just this challenge. The authors ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Managing and Working in Project Society

    Institutional Challenges of Temporary Organizations

    by Rolf A. Lundin, Niklas Arvidsson, Tim Brady, Eskil Ekstedt, Christophe Midler, Jörg Sydow ...
    In this book, leading authorities on project organizing explore the growing deployment of projects and other types of temporary organizations, with a focus on the challenges created by projectification. The way projects are coordinated and handled influences the success of innovation and change within organizations and is critical for strategic development in our societies, yet it is often at odds ... Read more

    $38.99 USD