Engineering Management

Mit kühlem Kopf durch heiße Zeiten! Während die Temperaturen im Sommer immer weiter in die Höhe schießen, müssen wir uns diesen Winter verdammt warm anziehen. Eine Situation, in die wir uns durch viele falsche Entscheidungen in der Vergangenheit selbst gebracht haben. Wussten Sie, dass in Finnland die Grünen auf Kernenergie setzen? Und dass, würden wir ganz auf Wind und Sonne setzen, in einer windstillen Nacht schon nach 40 Minuten unsere Energiespeicher leer sind? Aber was erwartet man von einer Nation, die schon mit dem Bau eines Flughafens überfordert ist.

Cercetările lui Leidy Klotz au condus la un adevăr simplu: indiferent dacă este vorba despre construirea unor jucării cu piese de lego, planurile de urbanizare, sendvișuri sau strategiile de afaceri, mintea e tentată să adauge, în loc să scadă. Adunăm instinctiv lucruri care nu ne trebuie neapărat. Le oferim stimulente celor cu performanțe remarcabile, dar nu ne gândim să înlăturăm obstacolele din calea lor. Ne însușim idei noi, care să ne facă lumea mai bună, dar nu renunțăm mai întâi la cele învechite și dăunătoare.

In Engineering Business Success, Herb Johnson shares what he has learned in his 28 years at the helm of the thriving company that he founded. And he shares what he has learned in life, since his boyhood rural upbringing, through his years as a young engineer, and as he has worked to make the most of his business.

As human beings, we are fascinated by what makes us tick. We know that nature gave us certain biological appetites to ensure our survival, among those the need for water, food, sex, and love, but meeting these alone is not enough to ensure happiness. Scientists, and now managers, are realizing that people have a biological need to experience social rewards like praise, the thrill of innovation, and the satisfaction of acquiring new skills.

The way we manage our production is drastically changing. In last two decades, a model in which goods were manufactured in low-cost countries and efficiently transported was successful. Now is the time when majority of the players are relying on cutting-edge technologies and replicating models across the globe. Industry 4.0 is being exponentially adopted. The business models are obvious and available. The Eco-system is flexible for plug and play as per requirements. There is no second thought that who-ever cannot adopt industry 4.0 will fail.

Stop what you’re doing right now and listen up - your commercial driving or trucking business is doomed, unless you change your mindset immediately. It’s all about knowing your business, knowing your client, and showing them why you’re better than everyone else - and you don’t need a ton of money or a university degree to accomplish just that. A little bit of business sense and some guidance is all you need to help you take the right steps.

Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the organizational culture, leadership styles, and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight, to share the lessons they learned from critical moments where they took on seemingly insurmountable challenges.

This audiobook includes three manuscripts: Data Analytics, Agile Project Management, and Machine Learning. If your business is like most, it is already generating a staggering amount of data on a regular basis. Similarly, agile project management has grown in popularity over the past several years. Machine learning is also vital to the world of information technology. Now is the time! Get started on your project management journey today.

The unprecedented access to other humans that technology provides has ironically freed us from engaging with them. According to social psychologist Adam Waytz, our increasingly human-free lives come with a serious cost that we’ve already begun to pay: the loss of our humanity. Humans have superpowers. More than any other psychological stimulus, our presence can make experiences feel significant, inspire moral behavior, and encourage action. The Power of Human shows us how to rehumanize and harness these unique abilities to improve our lives, beginning with our jobs.

Discover how to maximize value and minimize waste, create a more effective start-up, and eliminate wasteful practices and improve efficiency.

Master the skills and knowledge you need to succeed as a software engineer with this comprehensive guide. Whether you're new to the field or a seasoned professional, this book covers all the essential software development topics to help you stay up-to-date and excel in your role. Click the Read sample button (under the cover image on the left) to see the extensive list of topics covered in the table of contents. This comprehensive guide covers essential topics in software engineering/software development. Read this book If: You want to start OR have started a career in software engineering....

Psychologist Richard Wiseman brings together history, psychology, and self-help in this unique and powerful guide to achieving the impossible in work and in life. The result of intensive research, including interviews with surviving members of the Apollo mission-control team, Moonshot delivers eight key lessons on teamwork, leadership, persistence, creativity, and more, each one a vital part of the mind-set for success.

Conquer the CEE Exam: A Basic Guide to Becoming a Certified Environmental Engineer provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for those preparing to achieve certification as an environmental engineer. This guide covers all the essential topics and concepts required for the Certified Environmental Engineer (CEE) Exam, offering detailed explanations and practical applications to ensure success. From environmental laws and regulations, water and air quality management, hazardous waste handling, and stormwater control to sustainable site design, ecosystem management, and energy ...

As climate change becomes an international crisis, more and more industries are looking for a sound model for creating successful environmentally friendly companies, and a new generation of young leaders are eager for inspiration and guidance on creating sustainable businesses. Mid-Course Correction Revisited advocates why we need to create prototypical green companies and a new economy - not based on non-renewable resources, but on renewable energy, aggressive recycling, innovative technology, and sustainable business practices.

In this course, Talking Confidently for Software Engineers, learn different strategies to make you feel confident in stressful software development situations. Please note that this course does not teach you how to speak, as you already know that, but instead introduces strategies to help you feel more confident before, during, and after stressful talking and debating situations.

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.

If you want to experience all the amazing benefits Lean could provide then keep reading....Do you want your company to improve? Do you want to see your company do better with less waste? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Lean: The Ultimate Guide to Lean Startup, Lean Six Sigma, Lean Analytics, Lean Enterprise, Lean Manufacturing, Scrum, Agile Project Management and Kanban is here to help. Lean is a business practice that will eliminate waste in your company while improving the processes that you are currently using.

Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and studied bushfires in Europe, Canada and the US. He risked his life in the 1994 Sydney fires and, later, during our catastrophic Black Summer of 2019-20. As a career firefighter, he worked his way up the ranks to become commissioner of one of the world's largest fire services, Fire and Rescue NSW, for nearly 14 years. When it came to natural disasters there was little, if anything, he hadn't witnessed first-hand.

Internationally renowned financial expert and best-selling author David Bach has always urged listeners to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that "going green" is an expensive choice they can't afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your green values and a million dollars in the bank.

The Agile methodology is a project management methodology that uses short development cycles (called "sprints") to focus on continuous improvement in the development of a product or service. It consists of a family of methods (including Scrum, extreme programming (XP), test-driven development (TDD), and feature-driven development (FDD), each of which has the objective to provide a better product in less time, avoiding development of useless functions and overcoming errors that a traditional planning method could result in, both for big and small projects.