This book takes the reader on a journey through times and spaces to live the stories and glories of some eight great projects shaping the world's skyline. It uncovers the secrets of construction greatness through living the project stories firsthand, meeting with the great build…
Scrum is an agile framework for completing complex projects. This book gives examples, tools, and tricks to do Scrum well. For each trick it is explained why it helps. The practices themselves may be worth trying, but by understanding why it works the readers will be able to com…
Scrum is an agile framework for completing complex projects. This book gives examples, tools, and tricks to do Scrum well. For each trick it is explained why it helps. The practices themselves may be worth trying, but by understanding why it works the readers will be able to com…
Appropriate planning is the hallmark of professional project management. Good planning is what sets apart great projects from accidents. Purposeful planning is what ensures that the executive actions undertaken remain connected to the goals and outcomes expected by the stakehold…
Projects will soon be managed with a hybrid of Agile and traditional Waterfall processes. This highly instructive guide covers what Agile is, and how and when it is appropriate to blend it into your projects. Agile Practices for Waterfall Projects will help new and experienced p…
This book explains how to successfully deploy Agile and Kanban on a large scale in order to increase IT delivery capabilities. It factors in change, communication, a sense of urgency, clear and measurable goals, political realities, and infrastructure needs, all of which are cri…
Professional guidance on using Microsofts Visual Studio toolset for agile project management Focusing on both process and results, this professional guide offers a practical approach to running agile software projects using Visual Studios project management templates and tools. …
Project management is seen as a critical skill across a broad range of disciplines. Yet most people, regardless of educational background, have never received training in how to plan, manage, and execute projects. Project Management Essentials, 2nd edition, will be the go-to boo…
Only 39 percent of projects today are successful in adding value to the product and the organization investing in the project. Nearly half of the projects that fail do so because of "poor requirements management" (PMI 2014). Leveraging Business Analysis for Product Success explo…
« Information, Knowledge and Agile Creativity will enlighten entrepreneurs, and is ideal for facilitating an organization's ability to react and adapt to its environment. Creativity is a system that engenders innovation. While integral at the conception stage, it is also importa…
Shows how to bring unprecedented levels of professionalism and discipline to agile development - and thereby write far more effective, successful software
