Need help on how to get work done using traditional project management practices? Then, Process Groups: A Practice Guide is the right supplemental guide for you. This important companion to, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), offers useful and practical guidance for a predictive approach to project management practices. This practice guide influences your way of working, ensuring you are equipped with the information you need to succeed in this changing pro...

This PMP Study Guide employs multilearning techniques to maximize your knowledge retention for the many project management terms and concepts. Based on the PMBOK Guide Fifth Edition, the contents deliver the information, knowledge, and confidence needed to pass the PMP exam. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the information required to prepare for the PMP exam in an easy-to-understand format and also includes many practice questions and quizzes. An emphasis on areas of exam diff...

Revised Version 2016. Passing the Project Management Institutes Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification examination wont be easy, but youll boost your chances for success when you consult this study guide.Vivek Vaishampayan, an information technology expert who holds several certifications, including the PMI-ACP designation, introduces you to the exam process, Agile Project Management principles, and dozens of knowledge and skill areas that you must master to succeed i...

The Digital Transformation Playbook: What You Need to Know and Do is an indispensable resource for you and your organization as you embark on the exciting and challenging journey of digital transformation. It features insightful ideas and best practices that drive digital transformation. Contributors include leading thinkers and practitioners drawn from around the world.

Transformation is no longer a short-lived initiative. It is not a program. It is not linear. Instead, the world's leading organizations now embrace transformation as a a challenging, stretching, exciting and essential constant in their lives. Welcome to the age of perpetual transformation. Now, the Brightline Initiative and Thinkers50 have collaborated to bring together some of the world's leading minds on the theme of perpetual transformation. Curated by Thinkers50 cofounder Stuart Craine...

The demand for competent program managers who can help organizations achieve their strategic objectives is growing, and holding this PgMP credential helps you demonstrate strong subject matter knowledge and expertise in this area and become an invaluable asset to any organization. While my previous book, the Program Management Professional (PgMP) Handbook, covered the concepts you need to understand to prepare for the PgMP exam, it did not include sample test questions that you could use t...

Successfully Launch and Operate a Virtual Project Management OfficeNew technology and global businesses and organizations are making virtual project management offices (VPMOs) more important and more prevalent than ever. Successfully operating a VPMO requires project managers to employ additional skills and address different challenges from those necessary to operate a traditional PMO. For example, the virtual project manager must have effective soft skills to build trust among a d...

This book is intended to introduce learners to waterfall, agile, information technology, and data science project management methodologies. Readers will learn about the concepts, processes, tools, and techniques that are useful for executing projects in waterfall, agile information technology, and data science environments. The objective is for learners to become contributors to the field of project management and deploy a structured approach to managing projects. Learners who read this bo...

Emphasizing greater clarity on risk practice, this new edition of Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance maintains a focus on the ability to apply "planned clairvoyance" to peer into the future. The book begins by analyzing the various systems that can be used to apply risk management. It provides a fundamental introduction to the basics associated with particular techniques, clarifying the essential concepts of risk and how they apply in projects. The second part of the book pres...

The Silver Lining of Project Uncertainties provides readers with a critical foundation for how to differentiate the management of project risks and uncertainties, how to differentiate project success from project value and how to clearly identify the key elements of project risk, uncertainty and value opportunity.

PMBOK® Guide is the go-to resource for project management practitioners. The project management profession has significantly evolved due to emerging technology, new approaches and rapid market changes. Reflecting this evolution, The Standard for Project Management enumerates 12 principles of project management and the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition is structured around eight project performance domains.This edition is designed to address practitioners' current and future needs and to help ...

The world of project management is evolving and requires constant adaptation of practices to guarantee success.The discussions held within the Lab Hybrid initiative have led to the development of this practical guide, which defines and illustrates "Hybrid" project management through concrete case studies. This guide describes eight specific professional situations reflecting the diversity of issues encountered and the solutions offered by Hybridization.The Hybrid approach g...