Project Leadership

In an increasingly competitive and crowded marketplace, it's not uncommon for business leaders to stick to well-established approaches for growing their bottom lines. But what if those methods are actually bottoming out their businesses? In The 5-Day Turnaround, Jeff Hilimire uses his 20+ years of success in the entrepreneurial arena to teach leaders how to strategically embrace a startup mentality to create transformative growth for their companies. Told through the eyes of Will, a highly accomplished entrepreneur who's running a fast-growing marketing agency.

Are you looking for the most productive ways to elevate your business and execute your projects faster? Look no further, Agile is for you and this is the audiobook for you to learn about Agile! This audiobook is intended to provide an understanding of how to fit agile methodologies into an overall business strategy that provides the right balance of control and agility for your business, for all listeners (and, in particular, business leaders). Get ready for swifter and more productive businesses and projects!

Successo con il project management - Come completare progetti in modo più efficiente, veloce e gestibile. Hai la sensazione che i tuoi progetti non stiano procedendo così rapidamente ed efficacemente come avevi pianificato? Vuoi diventare un leader rispettato e risoluto che motiva e tiene unita la propria squadra? Desideri reagire rapidamente alle mutate esigenze dei clienti durante la pianificazione del progetto per aumentare la loro soddisfazione? Allora questo libro fa assolutamente al caso tuo!

Stand Out From the Crowd with Essential Soft Skills In today's competitive IT industry, technical skills alone are no longer enough to succeed. To truly excel and unlock new career opportunities, you need to develop a comprehensive set of soft skills that will set you apart from the rest. "Beyond Coding: The Complete Guide to IT Soft Skills" is your ultimate resource for acquiring these invaluable non-technical competencies. Effective Communication: The Key to Success Effective communication is the cornerstone of any successful IT career. This book will teach you how to convey complex ...

Master the skills, practical how-to techniques and tips in The Extraordinary Power of Project Relationships. Your business life will be much more successful and so will your personal life. Invest in reading, learning and appropriately applying these techniques. Use the audiobook as a handy reference as you perform project work in the office as well as your personal life. Reward yourself. Your relationships will get better. You deserve to make their life as good as it can be!

Embark on a transformative journey into the world of project management with Breaking into Project Management, a comprehensive guide designed to equip aspiring and experienced project managers with the essential skills, strategies, and insights needed to succeed in this dynamic field.

What's an accidental agile project manager, you ask? Anyone who suddenly and unexpectedly finds themselves responsible for an agile project. Maybe, the home remodel project turned out to be a little more complicated and complex than you expected. Or, your manager gave you a project management book and put you in charge of an important work project. It's not uncommon to see team leaders doing project managers' work, and they may not even be aware.

Reviews “Simplifies game-changing concepts from the tech industry, bringing them to life with tangible examples and making them applicable to all industries and organisations. It is an impactful and accessible book full of practical tips that will have immediate and significant impact. It’s refreshing and inspiring to see that values of the author coming through so strongly, and the emphasis on personal leadership and self improvement is empowering.” -- Claire Fox, Chief Operating Officer UNICEF UK “This book was a joy to read. Ines has a wonderful style of writing and uses stories,...

Seeking a healthy work/life balance? Don't let porcupine-like people cause major problems in your career or life. Learn what to do when the boss is wrong. Know when to leave a difficult workplace. Become an expert at dealing with difficult, prickly people. Working with Porcupines gives you 24 hard-won lessons-learned and hundreds of practical tips on working with every type of person and being an outstanding leader and manager!

Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book, he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organisations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals. Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Harold Macmillan to Paula Radcliffe - Barber uses personal anecdote and proven strategy to map the route to success and navigate the difficulties that arise along the way.

This value-dense guidebook features actionable principles extracted from over 40 renowned servant leadership experts and practitioners, including prominent business executives, bestselling authors, and respected spiritual leaders. These and the proven easy-to-follow techniques and exercises are the reason why more and more people who peruse this book are becoming the charismatic and thoughtful leaders that lead the charge in their organization. Will you be one of them?

Successfully Managing Troubled Projects is a must-have resource for project managers, team leaders, and anyone involved in managing projects in dynamic and demanding environments. This book will empower you to overcome project hurdles, maximize efficiency, and deliver successful results. Whether you are a seasoned project professional or a novice in the field, this book will be your trusted companion in navigating the challenges of troubled projects.

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.

How effective are your user stories? Agile is a pragmatic-approach mind-set. Scrum provides you a framework, but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically create user stories in Scrum.

Project management is a high-stakes game, and failure is rarely an option. Are you ready to make your projects indestructible from pitfalls?Crash Proof Your Project is a highly engaging, highly effective tool book for project management. It offers simple, easy-to-apply solutions to safeguard projects from potential failures or "crashes." It aims to help managers and stakeholders improve communication, strengthen relationships, and drive better performance.

Understanding the Agile methodology doesn’t have to be difficult. Agile thinking and Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean are becoming highly popular in many industries. An increasing number of businesses are starting to use Agile values and principles to achieve their goals. Therefore, understanding the Agile way of working is more important than ever before.

Lots of entrepreneurs are using the lean startup philosophy to streamline their business practices and make effective market launches without using up a lot of capital. You can be one of them. This audiobook is going to teach you everything you need to know about lean startups, its specific philosophy, and how it edges out traditional businesses. If you want an amazing startup from day one, this comprehensive guide will start at the drawing board and accompany you as you launch your business and develop quality products tailored to the market.

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.

The Project: Thinking, Leadership, Planning, Performance, and Review is a guide to project development. Included are a fair number of concepts both for initiating a project and seeing it through to a meaningful conclusion. Things are made of parts, if you understand the parts you understand the thing. You may very well pick up a few ideas from this book about thinking. Have you ever taken a new job but retained the values and beliefs of the old job? After a time, you were startled to discover a significantly different perspective was required. But what if you had no chance to adapt? What if...

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.