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Editorial project managers make publications happen, taking raw content through quality control and design processes to produce a finished product.
Editorial Project Management outlines the key concepts of editorial project management, including briefing, scheduling and budgeting. It highlights the importance of communication, and other soft skills, in guiding a project through its production while meeting stakeholders' requirements and getting...
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Why another book on software project management? For some time, the fields of project management, computer science, and software development have been growing rapidly and concurrently. Effective support for the enterprise demands the merging of these efforts into a coordinated discipline, one that incorporates best practices from both systems development and project management life cycles. Robert K. Wysocki creates that discipline in this book--a...
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Some still think of project management as a domain only applicable to construction, engineering, or technology projects. However, over the last two or three decades, project management skills have been recognized as essential skills in all domains, and positions. Not everyone needs to be a project manager but most professionals can benefit from project management learning. The Customizable and Adaptable Methodology for Managing Projects (CAM2P) is...
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Are the right projects being initiated and delivered effectively in your organization? Are the right people managing your projects in the right way? Are the business change impacts of your project being effectively managed? Project management is a multifaceted discipline and the path to success presents significant challenges for many organizations. Effective project managers build the bridge between business need and technology capability, thus mitigating...
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This is a popular topic of critical importance to anyone planning to bring a new technical product to market. For all engineers and their managers concerned with product development, patent law and the patent process, but particularly early career engineers who need a basic introduction to the topic. Also a good refresher book for more experienced engineers.The author has eighteen years of intellectual property law experience. He has taught patent...
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This book is a highly accessible guide to being a project manager (PM), particularly a project manager working within an IT field. The role is set out with reference to required skills, essential competencies and responsibilities.
Tools, methods and techniques for project managers are covered, including Agile approaches, risk, issue and change management processes, best practices for managing stakeholders and financial management. Career progression...
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Based on the bestselling American Management Association seminar! If a full-fledged project management course doesn't fit your schedule or your budget, check out the new edition of Improving Your Project Management Skills. Based on the hugely popular American Management Association seminar of the same name, this ultra-practical reference offers powerful and repeatable project initiatives that improve processes, streamline productivity, and cut costs...
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The purpose of this book is to provide you with a simple and direct definitional guide to all things Project Management. I've worked on large corporate projects for over 20 years and my clients have spanned a pretty broad array of industries and names including Goldman Sachs, IHC (InterContinental Hotels Group), Google, TD Bank, Tokyo Gas, Morgan Stanley, VTB Bank (Russia), HarrisonGray (Australia) and Eros (Bollywood) International.Project Management...
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IT Maintenance: Applied Project Management modifies project management best practices to improve how IT system maintenance is managed. By taking a fresh look at increasing value and quality of system maintenance in a straightforward and practical way, this book helps readers understand how to apply modified project management best practices.
From IT maintenance managers, project managers, and team members to CIOs, readers will:
• Discover cost...
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Learn from Other Projects to Avoid Pitfalls on Your Projects! Projects fail at an alarming rate, whether they are information technology, training, construction, or policy development projects. No matter the focus, each year we experience an abundance of challenged projects that either require super-human effort to resuscitate or die an untimely death. Great Lessons in Project Management is a treasure trove of lessons learned from troubled projects-and...
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From the novice to the most experienced and senior project manager, triple constraint issues are at the core of the most crucial decisions about a project. The Triple Constraints in Project Management explores the triangle of time, cost, and performance that bounds the universe within which every project must be accomplished – and shows how controlling the hierarchy of constraints can mean the difference between success and failure on virtually...
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Agile Project Management: Scrum for beginners — the essentials, concepts and methods
Is Scrum right for your project?
"If you come up with an idea for a product nowadays you can bring it to market within a month. All you need is modern software as your design tools, digital nomads as your workforce and a globally integrated logistics system. But increasing the speed of production means changing how we work. The first to recognise this were Japanese...
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Essential review for the PMP exam, updated for the new PMBOK® Guide, 6th edition
The PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide, Fourth Edition, offers complete, concise review of essential project management concepts and practices. Covering 100% of the PMP exam objectives, this book helps you ensure your full preparation in advance of the big day. This new 4th Edition has been updated to align with the newest version
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With the acceleration of technology and information, projects are becoming more complex, costly, and time-constrained - and every year thousands of them get cancelled or end up costing significantly more than their original projections. Project and program managers are sorely in need of tools to help them avoid failure. Blueprint for Project Recovery provides readers with a proven, proceduralized methodology for identifying where and how projects...
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The demand for cybersecurity expertise is growing phenomenally; enhancing cybersecurity project skills will boost technology professionals' careers and improve organizational cybersecurity readiness.
Shields Up: Cybersecurity Project Management provides an end-to-end framework tuned for cybersecurity projects. More experienced cybersecurity professionals will appreciate the innovative and lean elements of this approach. The reader is guided through...
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MEET YOUR GOALS-ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.
How do you rein in the scope of your project when you've got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention?
Whether you're managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them,...
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This is the seventh book in the Technical Manager's Survival Guides series. For the complete series library, go to: In this new volume, the authors introduce readers to agile methods for managing projects. Agile methods have been around for a while, but their prevalence has increased as the result of many successful projects in organizations that have applied them. While some of the agile methods discussed here spring from software development experiences,...
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Combat the Deadly Sins of Project Management!Project management is a tough business. Not only must project managers contend with schedules, budgets, and a host of stakeholder demands, but they must also deal with sometimes vexing human behaviors, such as whining, indecision, opposition, inflexibility, complacency, and tunnel vision, to name a few. Projects can be negatively impacted by common "sins" that hinder, stall, or throw the project off track.In...
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Improve Your Business Results Through Organizational Project ManagementOrganizational project management (OPM) aligns project deliverables with strategy. Understanding this emerging process is essential for all stakeholders, from the corporate sponsor to project team members. OPM is a valuable new tool that can enhance your organization's successful execution of projects in alignment with strategic priorities.Under the editorship of Rosemary Hossenlopp,...
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For nearly twenty years, The Little Black Book of Project Management has provided businesspeople everywhere with a quick and effective introduction to project management tools and methodology. The revised and updated third edition reflects the newest techniques, the latest project management software, as well as the most recent changes to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK™). Readers will find invaluable strategies for organizing any...
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