Project Management Leadership

The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its cocreator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland. Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to health care in major American hospitals. In this major new book, its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.

This book was written for the new manager or anyone who aspires to become a leader. Whether you have just finished school or have been working for some time, you are in (or about to assume) your first real leadership position. Leadership in Balance will help you to see and understand your natural tendency in each of four essential leadership domains. Once you’ve identified your true and natural tendencies, you become self-aware of your default position as a leader.

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up provides refreshingly practical and candid insight into the best practices and techniques that project managers have successfully used for decades to manage a wide variety of senior-level stakeholders - ranging from perfectly competent and pleasant to downright dysfunctional and inept. While managing up is an incredibly valuable skill for virtually any type of boss (not just the difficult ones), the audiobook includes recommendations for managing six particularly challenging - and common - types of senior leaders.

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.

Agile Project Management For Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry―not just software development―agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away.

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.

Worried about another looming slump? Employ the kaizen ideology today to establish a successful “continuous improvement” mechanism in your business to save it and see dramatic improvements! If you’ve always wanted to increase productivity in your business and maintain the quality of products and services through a sustainable, continuous improvement of processes and products involving the lean and agile startup team, this book is for you.

Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster shows listeners how applying Agile and DevOps ways of working into cyber-physical systems presents the opportunity to reap huge rewards, including increased adaptability, shorter delivery schedules, reduced development cost, increased quality, and higher transparency into delivery.

Do you ever feel like you never have enough time? Are you constantly battling with deadlines, emails, and social media notifications? Would you like to achieve superhuman focus in today’s distracted world? If you ever struggle with time management, you’re not alone. The truth is, in today’s increasingly distracted world, staying productive is incredibly challenging. It’s important to remember that this is not your fault! But procrastination will not solve itself; you must take action. And that’s how The Productivity & Decluttering Master Plan will empower you.

Ask better questions, and you will get better results. Top business coach Mark Moses has identified four critical questions every business leader should explore on their journey to business and life success.

Many companies try to save money and underestimate the importance of project management. You know better than anyone else that project management is more than just quickly briefing your team during work. Even startups with small budgets invest in a project manager (PM) because it's no longer a secret that a skilled project manager can save companies 28 times more money since their output is more reliable.

Knowledge Café is a process for creating, exchanging, and optimizing knowledge, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.

This book spells out the qualities of a good project manager and takes you through the exact steps that you need to master to become competent as a project manager. Once you go through the tips provided in this book, you will not have to worry about the nature of the project at hand or its magnitude. You will have gained so much courage that no project will intimidate you. As you will realize after going through the book, it is not easy to forget the project management tips provided owing to their mode of delivery.

It's no secret that the Agile process is fast becoming the preferred way to manage projects, and in the year ahead, Agile is expected to become even more widely used. The goal with this audiobook is to change the way you and your company approach your customer's needs so you can deliver products to them faster and with more value, while also turning the process around internally to create a workplace for which people line up to work.

Tim Stevens traveled an alternative road—leaving high school and immediately joining a national non-profit organization. He rose quickly through the ranks of leadership, but nine years later left it all behind to help an upstart church get its footing. During the 20 years Stevens served as Executive Pastor at Granger Community Church near South Bend, Indiana, the ministry grew from a congregation of 300 to more than 5,000; from a staff of five to more than 130; with a preschool, restaurant, three campuses and more than 1,800 new churches planted in southern India.

Kanban (or signboard in Japanese) is a scheduling system used in lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. The Kanban system focuses on eliminating waste, improving efficiency, and maximizing resources while reducing costs, all at the same time. Recognizing the benefits of this system, project managers around the world have started looking at Kanban as an effective project management tool. With Kanban, you’ll be able to equip yourself with the skills to become a master of project management.

With this audiobook, you can learn about Kanban methodology and Agile project management so you can optimize the workflow to serve a specific purpose, ensuring customer satisfaction.

Every day around the world, across all business sectors, projects of various size and scope are being planned, started and completed and each one of these has a project manager in charge of ensuring that each member of each project team is working as effectively as possible in order to see it through successfully. If you are interested in learning how to join their ranks, then this is the book you have been waiting for.

It's time to level the playing field! You are accustomed to being the first - the first to go to college, the first to start a business. You often enter rooms where no one else looks like you. You're a trailblazer on a mission to create a new legacy for your family. And yet, despite your success, you still work too hard for too little cash. In Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises, Susanne Mariga, CPA, shows you how to implement the proven Profit First cash-management system that has lifted thousands of entrepreneurs out of the struggle and into success.

If you are a busy person who does a lot of note taking for either professional or personal reasons, then the Microsoft OneNote software would be perfect for you. This free, extremely easy to use, and quite comprehensible note-taking program is much more than merely a note-taking service. It actually contains a number of unique and extremely useful features that you will not find with any other word processor.