Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project: Tom Kendrick PMP

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There’s a good reason project risk management is one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (TM). Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. It’s no wonder that project managers [...]

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition): Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

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“I strongly recommend that you buy one copy of Peopleware for yourself and another copy for your boss. If you are a boss, then buy one for everyone in your department, and buy one for your boss.”

Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major [...]

Project Management in Practice: Jack R. Meredith, Scott M. Shafer, Margaret Sutton, Jr., Samuel J. Mantel

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Practical, hands-on approach, with use of Microsoft Project software integrated throughout. * 120-day evaluation version of Microsoft Project packaged with book. * Clear and accessible writing style.
From the Back Cover
Build real-world project management skills with a brief, [...]

Mastering Virtual Teams: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques That Succeed: Deborah L. Duarte, Nancy Tennant Snyder

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Office face-time may always play a critical role in certain corporate settings, but technology and globalization have combined to thrust “virtual meetings” into an increasingly important place on today’s overall business stage. With once-rigid boundaries of time, geography, and even organization now rapidly disappearing, members of [...]

Earned Value Project Management, Second Edition: Quentin W. Fleming; Joel M. Koppelman

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“Earned value” is a project management technique that is emerging as a valuable tool in the management of all projects, including and, in particular, software projects. In its most simple form, earned value equates to fundamental project management. This is not a new book, but [...]

Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology: Paul Glen, David H. Maister, Warren G. Bennis

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From Publishers Weekly
Technology has so clearly woven itself into the fabric of business culture that publishing Glen’s book on how to manage the people who produce high tech makes perfect sense. The author, founder of a consulting firm specializing in IT organizations, assumes that “geeks” [...]

Project Management (Briefcase Books Series): Gary R. Heerkens

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This reader-friendly series is a must read for all levels of managers All managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little brushing-up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books Series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers [...]

Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge: Geoffrey M. Bellman

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From Publishers Weekly
Addressing middle management in a fiercely competitive, status- and title-oriented business world, consultant Bellman demonstrates how “support” professionals of all kinds, while serving their higher-echelon “internal” customers, can fulfill their own potential for professional and personal development beyond just “earning a living.” In [...]

Leadership for Dummies: Marshall Loeb, Stephen Kindel

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“A year had passed since our last strategy+business review of leadership book and CEO memoirs, so a trip to Borders was in order to see what was new in those categories. We discovered almost all the books in the management section had been published within [...]

Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach: Gerald M. Weinberg

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“…extremely practical and down-to-earth….” — CAUSE/Effect
“it is filled with useful insights into personal growth as a professional.” — Journal of Systems Management

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