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It's great to find yourself with a new promotion and to suddenly have fresh challenges at work. But managing other people can be a daunting responsibility when it's your first time—particularly if you find yourself as the boss of former colleagues or friends. Packed with practical advice, Succeed as a New Manager will help you sail through issues such as getting to know your team, dealing with internal politics, the rise of hybrid and remote working, motivating others and celebrating success.

Un guide pratique et accessible pour apprendre à diriger efficacement un projet ! Comment s'organiser convenablement lorsque l'on se retrouve à la tête d'un projet, afin de le mener à terme avec succès ? Cette question, chacun est amené à se la poser un jour ou l'autre, que ce soit dans le professionnel ou dans le privé, pour un projet personnel qui nous tient à cœur ou pour une mission confiée par un supérieur. La réponse n'est pas évidente et peut varier en fonction de la situation, mais de grands principes généraux peuvent tout de même être dégagés.

Over the last decade and a half, agile project management has surged in popularity across the globe. Organizations of all types and sizes have leveraged agile with enviable results. Agile project management is a flexible, responsive, and powerful tool for a project manager's toolkit. As a project manager, you know that agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about agile to reap the rewards?

Seeking a healthy work/life balance? Don't let porcupine-like people cause major problems in your career or life. Learn what to do when the boss is wrong. Know when to leave a difficult workplace. Become an expert at dealing with difficult, prickly people. Working with Porcupines gives you 24 hard-won lessons-learned and hundreds of practical tips on working with every type of person and being an outstanding leader and manager!

"Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder." - Zig Ziglar Do you have complex problems?... ...Are your solutions effective? Do the problems reappear? Most of us encounter problems in our lives, either at work or at home. These problems cause stress in our minds and leave us exhausted. Instinctively, we start to take ad-hoc actions that we think will resolve the problem, but we soon realize that our actions are not effective and do not prevent or solve the core problem. Structured problem solving provides a systematic...

A guide to building a successful service management career and delivering organizational success. IT is a business-critical function. It delivers experiences, stimulates strategic shifts, and protects organizations from theft, cyber attacks, and the related regulatory, reputational and financial impacts.

Project Decisions: The Art and Science is an entertaining and easy-to-follow guide to a structured project decision analysis process. This valuable audio presents the basics of cognitive psychology and quantitative analysis methods to help project managers make better decisions. Examples that portray different projects, real-life stories, and popular culture will help listeners acquire the essential knowledge and skills required for effective project decision-making.

Fraternity parties can be legendary, talked about by students, parents, alumni, and brothers for years to come. But one wrong move - a band pulling a no-show, not having enough money to pay entertainers, or the cops showing up - can turn a once-in-a-lifetime experience into a memorable failure. As the social chair of your fraternity, it's on you to guarantee every event your chapter hosts is an overwhelming success.

Contemporary organizations proliferate with projects. Managing projects, working with project managers, and delivering project excellence have become fundamental skills in the world of business, resulting in an array of approaches, tools, and techniques that can bewilder. This book homes in on the absolute essential elements of the field. With practical insights throughout, the audiobook provides listeners with a concise understanding of key concepts, techniques, and outcomes such as ownership, execution, success, quality, budgets, and risks.

Do you want to manage projects more effectively? Do you want to increase your team’s productivity, collaboration, and deliver business value sooner? Scrum is the leading Agile methodology used by Fortune 500 companies and is transforming businesses everywhere. In this ever-changing world of customer expectations and new technologies, businesses need to be Agile to get ahead and stay there. With Scrum, you can be ready to adapt to the inevitable change.

Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit, providing leaders with a forward-looking radar to scan the future and give early warnings of approaching threats and opportunities. However, even best-in-class organizations can falter in the face of extreme risk exposure. Special circumstances demand special responses, and extreme risk exposure needs very careful handling. Routine risk management approaches will fall short, but businesses that demonstrate high flexibility and resilience will have the competitive advantage and the ability to thrive where others fail.

The Velocity Advantage teaches how to bring these two worlds together to more systematically improve implementation results and reduce organizational aggravation.Your projects can be planned and implemented better and faster using the breakthrough approach. Proven to work consistently across industries and project types, applying the Velocity Advantage will make both you and your projects more successful.

The principles and practices for Scrum is a basic procedure for overseeing complex projects, which are clear and simple to learn. Be that as it may, Scrum's effortlessness absence of solution that can be incapacitating, and new experts frequently wind up returning to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. As a beginner, you notice that experienced techies use the terms Scrum and Agile conversely. Be that as it may, the two are extraordinary, and understanding the thing that matters is maybe the most ideal approach to start getting Scrum.

Healthcare is a big business and is only continuing to grow. Because of this, technology must adapt and transform to meet the needs of the public. Failed healthcare IT projects are nothing new. However, they surely are something that can be learned from. In every failure is a lesson that can be used for a future project - a lesson that can help to save, or better, someone else's life.

Despite your efforts to inspire, it seems like they just can’t meet their numbers. Which causes you to fall short of your goals. What if there was an easy solution that not only motivates your team, but also encourages and nurtures their future with your company? For the first time, Lisa Shumpert, a highly accomplished and strategic senior corporate officer, shares her secrets on empowering teams from her thirty-five years of global cross-industry human resources experience.

Construction is an industry that is always rife with startups because many people try to break into the industry. It has been noted that many businesses don't even make it to the five-year mark before they have to pack up and shut down. The key to setting up and maintaining a successful construction business is having a good understanding of the industry and making sure you plan your business properly before setting out. To start your construction company, you will need to create a great business plan, do some heavy budgeting, and much more. This guide will be walking you through all of ...

We think that we fail in decisions because of our own faults. In Business Decisions: D - Side Practical Decision Making Business Guide, we see this is not the case. Many recent popular science books have gleefully shown how irrational we are in making decisions. However, that is not the main reason why we fail in our decisions. The real challenge is our failure to grasp the complexity in most everyday life problems.

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Whether you are about to start a brand new career in project management, or you are an existing project manager that is now looking to climb the corporate ladder, this audiobook will teach you how to manage your projects effectively, from beginning to end. The term "project management" is so broad and can be applied to so many aspects of business that a lot of people get confused by it. But don't worry, this audiobook will break it down into bite-size, relevant chunks that you can take away and apply.

The percentage of IT projects that fail is embarrassing to those in the IT industry! Project managers need to get their act together to ensure that their projects run smoothly, all lines of communication are open, and they have the backing of the stakeholders and upper management. But do PMs have the skills they need to keep a project afloat? This quick career guide book is meant to provide you with 10 real world IT project examples, why they failed, and lessons learned for each one.