Successful Project Management

Successful Project Management
Author: Bonnie Biafore
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0735661820

Learn best practices and proven methods from project management professionals—and apply these skills as you work with Microsoft Project. In this practical guide, project management expert Bonnie Biafore shows you how to manage projects efficiently and effectively, sharing the real-world experiences of project managers in several industries. You'll learn how to put the best practices and hard-won lessons of experts to work on your critical projects. Sharpen the skills you need to manage projects expertly—from start to finish Communicate effectively with project stakeholders, management, and team members Apply methods to break down the project into small, manageable pieces Define work assignments, choose resources, and build project schedules Accurately estimate project costs and work with a budget Identify project changes and manage risks Track progress and balance priorities without sacrificing quality Document project history and lessons learned to help improve future projects Project files available on the companion website.

Successful Project Management

Successful Project Management
Author: Jack Gido
Publisher: Thomson South-Western
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Project management
ISBN: 9780324224283

This text covers everything students need to know about working successfully in a project environment, including how to organize and manage effective project teams. Communication is also emphasized, with a focus on how to document and communicate project developments within and outside of the team. In-depth coverage of planning, scheduling, and cost estimating is also provided.

Project Management 101

Project Management 101
Author: Lew Sauder
Publisher: Lew Sauder, Inc.
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

An entertaining and informative story to help you develop project management expertiseHolly Hewitt is facing the biggest challenge of her career. Holly Hewitt has been assigned to manage the merger of two large food products companies. As she faces setbacks and challenges, she learns a few things about project management, and even mentors others on some of her own management and leadership knowledge. In Project Management 101 , Lew Sauder offers another business parable that charms as well as it informs. Project Management plays a critical role in nearly every organization. Knowing the right things to do, and the right times to do them are critical skills in today’s business world. Project Management 101 provides you with 101 useful tips to optimize your professional performance. Project Management 101 will help you:Develop leadership skills to build on for your entire careerLearn how to successfully develop relationships with your staff, stakeholders, and executivesEffectively motivate your team for higher productivityEstablish yourself as a mentor in your organization

Digital Project Management

Digital Project Management
Author: Taylor Olson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781604271256

The digital world is growing and changing at a rate that can seem overwhelming to those project managers who have to keep up with it to build customer-facing solutions and applications. It's rare for project managers working in this field to be provided with much direction or a process by which to carry out a project, and there has been almost nothing available specific to these types of projects in the literary marketplace. Digital Project Management: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to a Successful Launch was developed to fill this gap by providing the knowledge, best practices, and proven steps to successfully manage digital projects from end-to-end and was created to be easily adaptable to different project types and technological advances.

Computers and Information Processing for Business

Computers and Information Processing for Business
Author: Sergio S. Ribeiro
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1952538610

This book is an introduction to computers covering relevant topics that include: computers and society, the Internet, social media, Microsoft Office 2019, and high-level programming. The main goals are to help students to define computers and information processing and describe the main concepts related to hardware, software, and their use. The author prepares students to identify how the Internet has changed people’s lives and develops critical thinking about the role of computers in society, recognize the impact of technology in the personal and professional base, to mention a few. Emphasis is placed on developing skills in Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and programming algorithms.

On Becoming Agile

On Becoming Agile
Author: Daniel J. Power
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2021-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1637420099

The goal of this book is to explain and facilitate the journey to Agile. Becoming agile is an ongoing journey. As the global environment changes, and becomes more complex and more uncertain, the importance of increasing agility and developing an agile mindset grows. The goal of this book is to explain and facilitate the journey. We explore agile values, practices, and principles that can help people cope with volatile and ambiguous situations. Agile values improve processes and promote communication in an organization. Agile practices advance innovation through high-performance multidisciplinary teams. Agile is about learning to anticipate and respond appropriately to the unexpected. Being agile is about interactions with people that result in successfully completing work tasks and meeting objectives. Agile is not about blindly moving faster, rather it is about continuous flexibility and learning. This book is targeted to advanced students and managers who are interested in learning to be agile. This accessible practical text poses 30 questions and provides answers that provide a starting point for further reflection.

Successful ERP Systems

Successful ERP Systems
Author: Jack G. Nestell
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631578464

This book brings a unique combination of years of experience in academics research and studies in regards to “ERP systems” with years of experience from a practitioner’s perspective. Each year billions of dollars are spend by organizations to implement, manage, and maintain ERP systems. A simple browse through the Internet will demonstrate how challenging ERP implementations can be. Success rates are seen as quite low with time, costs, and effort typically being above planned and often significantly. Law firms make a living from ERP’s gone badly. Academia is investing more and more time and research into developing success models that not only attempt to objectively determine ERP success or failure but also attempt to be a proactive in that effort. But why? If ERP systems (and all their inherent functionality) can bring a true ROI to business, why are they so challenging? Why do they often deliver as advertised? And, why are they often seen as failing?

Mastering the 7 Dimensions of Business-Technology Alignment

Mastering the 7 Dimensions of Business-Technology Alignment
Author: Ashish Pachory
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1949991792

The force-multiplying power of business-technology alignment is acknowledged among the biggest contributors to enterprise success in the digital age. Even so, it is a missed opportunity in most organizations, or at best, restricted to a unidimensional coalition. Successful digital enterprises define alignment between business and technology along multiple dimensions. They invest in this alignment at the level of their culture, strategy, structure, process, intellect (innovation), function, and tactics. A systematic understanding and embracement of these seven dimensions of business technology alignment is at the core of a successful digital enterprise. Using familiar workplace paradigms and relatable examples, this book builds on each dimension of business-technology alignment towards strengthening the foundation on which a successful digital enterprise stands, using tricks and tips not found in textbooks and classrooms. If you are, or aspire to be, in an organization that relies on a convergence of business and technology to achieve success, this book is meant for you. It builds upon fundamental ideas in a manner designed to strike a chord in everyone—from interns to entrepreneurs.

Managing by Projects for Business Success

Managing by Projects for Business Success
Author: John Parnaby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2003-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781860583414

How do you manage a company which runs hundreds of changing projects continually to maintain global competitiveness – what form of organization is used? How are the targets aligned to business strategy? Who sets the specifications or targets? How are they all reviewed? Who implements the results and how are these audited and checked, against the strategic framework, the targets set, and the results expected? Managing by Projects for Business Success develops a detailed appreciation of the approach to practical application, together with a parallel set of detailed methodology sections, tools and techniques, to help put the principles into practice. It provides the professional change manager with a wide range of practical methodologies and case examples from leading international service and manufacturing companies, comprehensively backed up by extensive source literature references. It will also be an invaluable supporting text for university business and engineering courses, as well as for in-service courses for senior managers and professionals with its distillation of a wide range of practical experiences illustrated by best-price case examples from a wide range of industries. Managing by Projects for Business Success develops along a backbone of six core chapters, from an initial definition of the strategic context for managing by projects, through explanation of a standard but flexible project process and then through specific application areas of generic importance to many organisations and enterprises.