Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success

Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success
Author: Neal Whitten PMP
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1567263038

Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success focuses on best project behaviors, by answering more than 700 insightful, personal, and sometimes sensitive questions on a broad range of topics from leadership, communication, and culture, to accountability, ethics, and conflict resolution. Following on the heels of Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects, this book offers more of the no-nonsense advice that has helped countless leaders and projects. This book is for those who aspire to become consistently effective leaders, project members, or employees and therefore become more valuable to their projects and organizations.

How to Save a Failing Project

How to Save a Failing Project
Author: Ralph R. Young DBA
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1567263402

You CAN Turn Around A Failing Project! Poor project results are all too common and result in dissatisfied customers, users, and project staff. With countless people, goals, objectives, expectations, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and deadlines to consider, it can be difficult to keep projects in focus and on track. How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control arms project managers with the tools and techniques needed to address these project challenges. The authors provide guidance to develop a project plan, establish a schedule for execution, identify project tracking mechanisms, and implement turnaround methods to avoid failure and regain control. With this valuable resource you will be able to: • Identify key factors leading to failure • Learn how to recover a failing project and minimize future risk • Better analyze your project by defining proper business objectives and goals • Gain insight on industry best practices for planning

Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects

Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects
Author: Neal Whitten
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523097019

Learn the Best Practices That Make the Difference Between Troubled Projects and Consistently Successful Projects There's no better way to learn the nuts and bolts of a profession than by having a mentor at your side. But most project managers and leaders don't have that advantage — and that's why Neal Whitten wrote this book. Having Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects on hand is like having a mentor to guide you at every turn in the road. Neal shows you how to avoid a painful learning curve with a set of best practices for leading consistently successful projects. In this book, Neal distills his 30 years of experience into tips and strategies that are easy to learn and apply to your projects. These strategies will give you a decisive competitive edge in leading projects and working with stakeholders, clients, and team members. Learn How to: • Run your project like you'd run your own business • Become a “benevolent dictator” for the most effective leadership • Recognize and deal with professional immaturity • Deal with difficult people • Master behaviors that will make your team leaders' jobs easier and benefit your own career • Assess if you're too soft — and learn to make unpopular decisions if they're necessary to project success • Create a culture that fosters the success of your project • Gain the respect of your team members • Avoid making long-term project commitments • Manage to your top three problems

Managing Software Development Projects

Managing Software Development Projects
Author: Neal Whitten
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1995-05-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling original is short on theory and long on practical, hands-on advice. Packed with realistic scenarios and case studies, this book shows readers how to avoid most of the problems encountered in the software development process.

Project Management

Project Management
Author: Jack R. Meredith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119369096

Projects continue to grow larger, increasingly strategic, and more complex, with greater collaboration, instant feedback, specialization, and an ever-expanding list of stakeholders. Now more than ever, effective project management is critical for the success of any deliverable, and the demand for qualified Project Managers has leapt into nearly all sectors. Project Management provides a robust grounding in essentials of the field using a managerial approach to both fundamental concepts and real-world practice. Designed for business students, this text follows the project life cycle from beginning to end to demonstrate what successful project management looks like on the ground. Expert discussion details specific techniques and applications, while guiding students through the diverse skill set required to select, initiate, execute, and evaluate today's projects. Insightful coverage of change management provides clear guidance on handling the organizational, interpersonal, economic, and technical glitches that can derail any project, while in-depth cases and real-world examples illustrate essential concepts in action.

The Gift of Wisdom

The Gift of Wisdom
Author: Neal Whitten
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781632670564

This warm, readable, and ultimately inspiring book for all ages shares with the world the treasured wisdom of our elders. From many hours of interviews, veteran author Neal Whitten draws insights from the life experiences of 25 older Americans. Representing different ethnic, economic, religious, and social groups, the interviewees reflect on their diverse lives and express their unique perspectives. They share with us the wisdom they have developed over the years and offer their advice for a life well lived. The thoughts shared in this 480-page book cover a wide range of topics, including philosophies in living life, relationships, family and parenting, spirituality, education, health, finances, vocation, workplace, stress, pursuing your dreams, hobbies and leisure time, caregiving, dealing with hardships, aging and retirement, doing it all over, and so much more. This collection of over 1000 unique passages gives readers of any generation a thoughtful and inspiring gift: the accumulated wisdom of these members of this venerable generation. Because The Gift of Wisdom covers a broad range of life topics, it is intended to help, comfort, or inspire almost anyone teenagers, college students, and adults of all ages, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion. The book has material that speaks to new or seasoned professionals in the workforce, newlyweds, parents, grandparents, caregivers, retirees, and people going through hardships, pursuing their dreams, or simply looking for thoughts to pause and reflect upon. The author sincerely hopes that the insights, wisdom, and guidance in this book will help you be more comfortable with who you choose to be and more happy, prosperous, and successful in your life. This treasure trove of wisdom offers readers a true gift: the gift of wisdom.

Not Even Wrong

Not Even Wrong
Author: Peter Woit
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2007-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 046500363X

At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not. In Peter Woit's view, superstring theory is just such an idea. In Not Even Wrong , he shows that what many physicists call superstring "theory" is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. Not Even Wrong explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today and shows that judgments about scientific statements, which should be based on the logical consistency of argument and experimental evidence, are instead based on the eminence of those claiming to know the truth. In the face of many books from enthusiasts for string theory, this book presents the other side of the story.

Lorenz on Leadership

Lorenz on Leadership
Author: Stephen R Lorenzt
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781782661603

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
Author: Richard Condon
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0795335067

The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time