Geared toward IT management and business executives seeking to excel in business intelligence initiatives, this practical guide explores creating business alignment strategies that help prioritize business requirements, build organizational and cultural strategies, increase IT efficiency, and promote user adoption. Business intelligence, together with business analytics and performance management, eliminates information overload by organizing the massive amounts of information available in...

With business analytics is becoming increasingly strategic to all types of organizations and with many companies struggling to create a meaningful impact with this emerging technology, this work—based on the combined experience of 10 organizations that display excellence and expertise on the subject—shares the best practices, discusses the management aspects and sociology that drives success, and uncovers the five key aspects behind the success of some of the top business analytics program...

Scale collaboration, not process.If you’re trying to use agile and lean at the program level, you’ve heard of several approaches, all about scaling processes. If you duplicate what one team does for several teams, you get bloat, not delivery. Instead of scaling the process, scale everyone's collaboration.With autonomy, collaboration, and exploration, teams and program level people can decide how to apply agile and lean to their work.Learn to collaborate around deliv...

Need some ideas about what to improve? PDCA/PDSA, TQM, Reengineering, ISO9000, CMM, CMMI, Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, JIT, DoE, statistical process control, EFQM, Kaizen, 5S…All of these methods and frameworks are great and provide you with the HOW. But then they leave you with figuring out the WHAT by yourself.This book fills the gap on WHAT to look at improving. I give you hundreds of simple improvements that can be implemented across your team and company regularly,...

The PRINCE2 Agile® Practical Implementation Guide – Step-by-step advice for every project type, Second edition explains how the structured, management-driven PRINCE2 project governance framework can work cohesively with team-driven, quality-focused, responsive Agile methods.This guide provides an overview of PRINCE2® and Agile before detailing the combined PRINCE2 Agile governance and project management framework. It also provides expert guidance on how to implement the PR...

Organizational change for IT people! The first book of its kind written specifically for IT service management practitioners and executives. Most IT organizational structures are falling out of date with the shifts created by the introduction of new technologies, expanding services, pace of business change, and the overall trend of lifting IT up and out of the traditional data center and into the cloud. This is about transitioning the IT organization from engineering silos providing capabi...

When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggle—doubtful about the new approach and uncertain about their new roles and responsibilities. In this book, two long-time certified Project Management Professionals (PMPRs) and Scrum trainers have built a bridge to this dynamic new paradigm. They show experienced project managers how to successfully transition to agile by refocusing on facilitation and collaboration, not “command and control.”

Become equipped with the principles, knowledge, practices, and tools need to assume a leadership role in an organization. From Analyst to Leader: Elevating the Role of the Business Analyst uncovers the unique challenges for the business analyst to transition from a support role to a central leader serving as change agent, visionary, and credible leader.

Discover the power of Agile for your team and project with this comprehensive guide to the Agile Manifesto. Learn how to leverage Agile's values and principles to enhance your team's productivity, collaboration, and customer satisfaction. This book provides practical tips for implementing Agile, as well as insights into when Agile is the right fit for your project. Whether you're new to Agile or a seasoned practitioner, this ebook is a must-read for anyone seeking to elevate their team's p...

As organizations seek to boost revenue, cut costs and increase efficiency, they increasingly look to IT as a strategic partner in achieving these objectives. Ten Steps to ITSM Success helps IT to prepare for this role by providing a detailed and practical guide to implementing ITSM best practices. It is written for ITSM practitioners and consultants, but will also be of interest to IT Directors and C-suite executives looking to transform the role of IT into a value-creating business partne...

As we move deeper into the 21st century, firms continue to struggle with the implementation of sales force technology tools and the role they play in sales representative performance. Foreseeing a changing environment, many sales organizations have begun to focus on technology-related strategies, business processes, and applications to adapt to these emerging issues. With this in mind, sales force technology usage has changed the methods of selling. Salespeople are no longer selling just a...

Unlock Scrum success for beginners and experts alike with The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide, your key to understanding and elevating Scrum practices.Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master. As a framework, Scrum is particularly challenging as there is no formal education tailored to these roles and no comprehensive set of practices readily available to those interested in applying it. The Scrum Guide 2020 describes its underlying principles only ...