What They Didnt Tell You About Project Management

Author : Kory Kogon
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1637740506
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager (Updated and Revised Edition) written by Kory Kogon and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No project management training? No problem! In today’s workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are, you aren’t formally trained in managing projects—you’re an unofficial project manager. FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon and Suzette Blakemore understand the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that people are crucial in the formula for success. This updated and revised edition of Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the value, people, and project management process: Scope Plan Engage Track and Adapt Close If you’re struggling to ensure multiple projects are finished with high value and on time, this book is for you. If you manage projects without the benefit of a team, this book is also for you. Change the way you think about project management—"project manager" may not be your official title, but with the right strategies, you can excel in this project economy.

Author : Robin Francis Vysma
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1925152065
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What They Didn't Tell You About Project Management written by Robin Francis Vysma and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey through the world of projects. If you've learned about project management in the classroom then the real world of projects is going to be quite an eye opener. There will be monsters against which you are defenceless. There will be seemingly insurmountable obstacles and your career will hinge on your capacity to deliver in this environment. So what's wrong with the way we teach project management now? How should it be taught? What are we doing wrong? The dollars at stake are in the scale of the national debt. It's time to start looking at project management from a different angle. About the Author: Robin Vysma became an IT professional graduating from the Queensland University of Technology in August 1988. He served as a developer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as the IT manager, for the Defence Security Branch in Canberra and as the manager of the Eastern Regional Information Centre, which he established for St John of God Health Care, in Ballarat. Robin holds a Master of Technology (Computing) from Swinburne, a certificate in management from The Australian Institute of Management and a Cert IV in Workplace Assessment and Training. He has had formal training in project management from AIM and with the Thomsett company through the Australian Computer Society. He has overseen a number of multi-million dollar IT projects in the health and defence industries with an enviable record for success.

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0399181822
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Author : Eric Brechner
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0735698953
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agile Project Management with Kanban written by Eric Brechner and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal: Agile Project Management with Kanban. Author Eric Brechner pioneered Kanban within the Xbox engineering team at Microsoft. Now he shows you exactly how to make it work for your team. Think of this book as {28}Kanban in a box.

Author : Mario Vanhoucke
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484234987
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Data-Driven Project Manager written by Mario Vanhoucke and published by Apress. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers. Written as a business novel, the book is highly interactive, allowing readers to participate and consider options at each stage of a project. The book is based on years of experience, both through the author's research projects as well as his teaching lectures at business schools. The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues who are in charge of the management of a new tennis stadium project. The CEO of the company, Jacob Mitchell, is planning to install a new data-driven project management methodology as a decision support tool for all upcoming projects. He challenges Emily and her team to start a journey in exploring project data to fight against unexpected project obstacles. Data-driven project management is known in the academic literature as “dynamic scheduling” or “integrated project management and control.” It is a project management methodology to plan, monitor, and control projects in progress in order to deliver them on time and within budget to the client. Its main focus is on the integration of three crucial aspects, as follows: Baseline Scheduling: Plan the project activities to create a project timetable with time and budget restrictions. Determine start and finish times of each project activity within the activity network and resource constraints. Know the expected timing of the work to be done as well as an expected impact on the project’s time and budget objectives. Schedule Risk Analysis: Analyze the risk of the baseline schedule and its impact on the project’s time and budget. Use Monte Carlo simulations to assess the risk of the baseline schedule and to forecast the impact of time and budget deviations on the project objectives. Project Control: Measure and analyze the project’s performance data and take actions to bring the project on track. Monitor deviations from the expected project progress and control performance in order to facilitate the decision-making process in case corrective actions are needed to bring projects back on track. Both traditional Earned Value Management (EVM) and the novel Earned Schedule (ES) methods are used. What You'll Learn Implement a data-driven project management methodology (also known as "dynamic scheduling") which allows project managers to plan, monitor, and control projects while delivering them on time and within budget Study different project management tools and techniques, such as PERT/CPM, schedule risk analysis (SRA), resource buffering, and earned value management (EVM) Understand the three aspects of dynamic scheduling: baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis, and project control Who This Book Is For Project managers looking to learn data-driven project management (or "dynamic scheduling") via a novel, demonstrating real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles

Author : Leticia Mooney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992283766
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to Project Management for Creatives written by Leticia Mooney and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project management can make or break your creative business! This is the ultimate guide, recognising that not only is your business different, but so is your lifestyle. The Ultimate Guide to Project Management for Creatives will help you:* design the lifestyle you want* create a schedule that supports creative work* qualify new prospects* understand your capacity* manage everything from tasks to staff.When you get Project Management right, your business will feel effortless, stress-free, and calm. Who knew it was this simple?The Ultimate Guide to Project Management for Creatives is built on a framework that the author uses, knows, and trusts. Leticia came to this method after six years of experimenting with other people's advice. Eventually she realised that nobody has ever really got it right for creatives, so she decided to spill all of her secrets for people like you.

Author : Mike Clayton
Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 0273759388
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brilliant Project Leader written by Mike Clayton and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Clayton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137355859
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Influence Agenda written by M. Clayton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out a systematic way to understand who you need to influence, how to evaluate the priority you give to each person, what tactics will work the best, and how to plan and execute your campaign. It provides powerful tools and processes which use the psychology of influence and grounds them in experience of managing projects and change.

Author : Fergus O'Connell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0857081608
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What You Need to Know about Project Management written by Fergus O'Connell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What You Need to Know About Project Management Project Management is all about getting things done without spending too much or taking too long. But when you start hearing things like man-days, PSOs and stakeholders, it just makes it difficult to understand. So what do you really need to know about project management? Find out: Why setting clear goals matters How to estimate absolutely everything. How to get things back on track after they’ve gone wrong How to track big projects Why work/life balance matters when you’re running a big project This clear and simple approach will mean you’ll never panic when faced with a big project again. Read More in the Want You Need to Know Series and Get to Speed on the Essentials... Fast.

Author : JOSEPH DOLPHIN
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1946822132
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What They Don't Teach You in Project Management School written by JOSEPH DOLPHIN and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What they don’t teach you in Project Management School builds on the existing book of knowledge on project governance and management. The book brings the author’s tacit knowledge and his knowledge rooted in context to bear on this subject. The book provides deep insights and shares experience on how projects are delivered in the real world. Emphasis is on the mathematics of project management. There are several topics that are not taught in project management schools – metrics, managing onshore-offshore delivery, managing staffing pyramid, managing cash flow in projects, comprehensive project governance plan, and also comprehensive coverage of tools and templates like MS Project Professional, Requirement Traceability Matrix and EVA.