Project Development

To be a great leader, you must be able to unite people from all backgrounds with seemingly competing agendas to come together under a common cause. Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League, has been such a leader and shares the lessons he learned along a legendary journey of achievement.

Recognizing, understanding and mastering the use of color in graphic design & graphic arts will set you apart from a crowded world and help you gain the attention of the audience you seek to capture. Regardless of whether you are a business owner, graphic designer, freelancer, author, graphic artist or photographer, this resource will help you develop fundamental mastery of the use of color. Why is this so important? Imagine seeing the world in black and white. There would be no emotion, no feeling, and life would be devoid of the beautiful vibrance that we enjoy. A strong use of color ...

Looking to become a top change manager? Look no further than "Mastering the 14 Qualities: How to Become a Top Change Manager." Written by an experienced and expert change manager, this book is a comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to know to succeed in the field of change management. The book includes a detailed explanation of the ✓14 qualities that every top change manager should possess, as well as ✓a step-by-step guide for the change process. You will also learn about ✓major change management models and all major and important ✓tools and techniques used in the ...

Todos tienen que enfrentarse todos los días a dilemas importantes: ¿Dónde hay que poner las prioridades y por dónde hay que empezar? Ahora ya disponemos de un método seguro para responder: el Sprint. El diseñador Jake Knapp creó este proceso de cinco días en Google, donde los sprints se empleaban para todo tipo de proyectos, desde el Google Search hastaGoogle X. En Google Ventures empezó a trabajar con Braden Kowitz y John Zeratsky y los tres han conducido más de cien sprints con empresas del sector de la telefonía móvil, del comercio electrónico, la sanidad, las finanzas y otros.

Scrum is the most successful framework for agile product development, and much has been written about how to follow the Scrum process, but the key to success is in the leadership skills of the product owner. Product Mastery explores the traits of the best product owners, offering an insight into the difference between good and great product ownership and explaining how the best product owners are driven to be successful.

Steve Case was on the leading edge of the Internet revolution when he cofounded AOL in 1991. He was an entrepreneur in a business that hadn't even been invented, yet he saw how significantly his efforts could change not only America but the world. In The Third Wave, Case uses his insights garnered from nearly four decades of working as an innovator, investor, and businessperson to chart a path for future visionaries.

Unleash the 'Game Tester' in you with the new eBook, "Game Testing and Quality Assurance"! This comprehensive guide serves as an ultimate roadmap to the fascinating world of game testing and QA, a vital part of successful game development. Imagine having a go-to manual that progressively navigates you through the industry's practices, tools, and methodologies. This valuable resource commences with a solid introduction to Quality Assurance in game development, elaborates on the distinction between Testing and QA, and elucidates the roles and responsibilities of a QA Team. The eBook further ...

This book provides a step by step guide to all the processes, goals, inputs, outputs and many other aspects of a repeatable software methodology for ANY project. From “soup to nuts” … the whole shebang ~! All in one place at an incredible price…. over 110 pages of knowledge. Any information technology organization must have a highly structured framework into which it can place processes, principles, and guidelines. The framework used for software development is a called a lifecycle. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) defines a repeatable process for building information ...

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to change your attitude into a positive one so you could be happier and more successful in life. In this book, you will also learn how to get rid of the habits that prevent you from having a positive mind. Lastly, this book contains exercises that you might find useful in making the change easier and more effective.

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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.

Confronting change is incredibly hard, both organizationally and personally. Yet the pace of change in our world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former vice chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. Imagine It Forward is an inspiring, fresh, candid, and deeply personal audiobook about how to grapple with the challenges to change we face every day. It is a different kind of narrative, a big-picture audiobook that combines Comstock’s personal story in leading change with vital lessons on overcoming the inevitable roadblocks.

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World is a tender and funny series of letters from a father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood. In between the sleep-obsessed lows and oxytocin-fuelled highs, Backman takes a step back to share his own experience of fatherhood and how he navigates such unchartered territory. Part memoir, part manual, part love letter to his son, this book relays the big and the small lessons in life.

Unveiling the latest treasure for all those connected with the world of project management - "Resolving the Project Puzzle"! This engrossing eBook is designed to be your comprehensive guide, illuminating the perplexing path of problem-solving in project management. From its foundations, this eBook ensures that you get a robust understanding of the fundamental principles of project management. It then delves into distinguishing and identifying problems - known, unknown, hidden, or unexpected. It empowers you to not only understand a problem, but also appreciate the difference between the ...

Congratulations! You've been hired by a client to get something done. Presumably, you have some sort of expertise in the area, you have someone on your team who is knowledgeable, or you'll be hiring somebody who does. This book provides some of the lessons I've learned over my 35-year career about managing consulting projects.

Ever been part of a really tough project? So tough that you had to eat a teammate? Unfortunately for an infamous group of pioneers, the effort to migrate to California reached those depths of project failure. Fortunately for us, we can use their story and other, historical examples to underscore the value of clear expectations. Whether it's a tragic journey west, the loss of a spacecraft (for the second time), or the creation of a chatbot that turned into one of the nastiest personas on the Internet, failed projects share a common trait; expectations could have been more clear. ‘MAP. ...

Do you wish you knew how to manage your team better, and get them to commit to your bold vision? The truth is...the majority of managers are simply not very good at goal-setting. (Because they were never taught how to do it properly.) Most corporate goals are never completed on time, and even your highly-educated employees are (usually) not working on essential tasks during the workday. This can be damaging to your career, and can destroy your productivity.

The Project Manager: Life Is a Project is a business fable designed to teach listeners how to apply simple project management techniques to their daily lives to become more organized and reach their goals.

This book contains 500 GameMaker projects to test and increase your GML and game design skills. Includes a download of example solutions for all 500 projects. After completing all challenges & learning the functions, you'll be in a much better position to plan and program your own game projects. Each challenge contains a title, brief explanation, useful functions and variables, and a hint on tackling the challenge. Each challenge also shows a difficulty guide from 1 (easy) to 5 (most challenging). There is also a check-box you can use to mark if you have completed the challenge. Covers ...

In our society we hear a lot of about IQ. The general norm is that a person with a high IQ is bound for success. But is that necessarily true? Some are naturally gifted with the ability to solve problems and think of the fly. However, the ability to interact with others in social settings or in a work place truly overshadows those with a high IQ. But why is that? How can understanding other people’s emotions have a greater impact than a high IQ?