This book is about taking your project management skills to a higher level—increasing the value you bring to your clients and employer. In today's business, everyone is so focused on data that they seem to have forgotten about people. People and relationships drive business, not data. 7 Steps to Immense Success in Project Management gives you the path you need in order to achieve the highest levels of success. The book is full of real world case studies for each step and shows you what kin...

The leadership secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Leadership.Includes how to:• Understand and develop your leadership style• Identify strategic goals for your department• Motivate and manage teams of all sizes• Build a culture of results and responsibility• Lead the way out of a crisis

“The business environment is so uncertain that no can afford to miss a step. Some forces are out of out control–recessions, cutbacks, layoffs. But being the best we can be at our job is not. We have total control over that.”--From the Introduction of The Six Fundamentals of SuccessEveryone has his or her own style at work. But if you look at the people who are successful, you’ll see similarities. They always do the most important things first--they know how to prior...

Managing Writers is a practical guide to managing documentation projects in the real world. It is informal, but concise, using examples from the author's experience working with and managing technical writers. It looks beyond big project, big team methodologies to the issues faced by smaller, less well-funded projects.Managing Writers is for technical writers, both freelancers and employees, documentation managers, and managers in other disciplines who are respons...

Traditional strategy assumes stability and predictability. Today's world is better characterised by turbulence, uncertainty, novelty and ambiguity - conditions that contribute disruptive changes and trigger the search for new ways of coping. This book aims to become the premier guide on how to do scenario planning to support strategy and public policy. Co-authored by three experts in the field, the book presents The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach (OSPA). The approach is both intellectua...

A toolbox for the new or moderately experienced IT project manager facing a serious, ongoing project disaster – or just a major crisis. It teaches you how to recognize a disaster in the making and offers good advice and tools that can be part of a potential solution. It also contains a lightweight adaptable methodical approach to solving an IT project crisis – the Severity Omega approach. Most IT projects meet some kind of crisis during their existence, and way too many of them end in disa...

Are you under pressure to deliver? Is your life made tough by shortened schedules, tight budgets, skills gap, incomplete scope, and demanding stakeholders? Do you need help in the form of proven practical tips and techniques to help you confidently deliver project success? This book will certainly help you. What’s inside? • Superb set of 52 proven project success keys • Unbeatable breadth of insights: 108 exper...

Focusing on turning an initial idea into a project with a successful outcome, this book fills a gap in current literature on project management and is thoroughly grounded in the latest research in this field. It emphasizes the practical application of decision making based on qualitative and judgmental information.

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...