Project Management Without a Helmet

Project Management Without a Helmet
Author: George Davenport
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2015-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1503536661

Unless you are independently wealthy, you need to work to put a roof over your head and bread on your table. I am convinced that you will be more successful in your working life if you find a field in which you get genuine satisfaction, with less regard to how well you are paid. This book will help you consider one field of work that has some of the sensations of a young boy playing in a great sandbox yet be paid for doing so. If you are already playing in the sandbox, it can help you have more fun by being more successful!

Software Project Management

Software Project Management
Author: S. Ramanathan
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1482870118

Software development has turned truly global - with requirement gathering and design at one location and program development at another. Cost advantage has moved more and more of the software life cycle activities to the developing nations like India and the Philippines. While outsourcing, many companies in the US and other Western countries find project management an area that needs improvement in the emerging service provider nations. Processes and teams across different geographical locations make the management all the more challenging. It is precisely this need that this book intends to address. The author has extensive management experience in IT projects in the manufacturing, banking and telecom domains and distils that experience to narrate the project management knowledge areas with real life examples and case studies. Many books and articles have described the challenges faced by the US project manager in dealing with a contractor in another country, but the remedial measures for this skill gap needs to emerge within the cultural context of the service provider nations. This book addresses this challenge primarily from an Indian perspective, which can be extended to many other developing nations. Billions of dollars of US and European projects are now being handled in India and other developing countries and thousands of project managers have to emerge from the talent pools of these countries to efficiently manage this investment .It is with an intent to develop these skills this book has been written.

Incredibly Easy Project Management

Incredibly Easy Project Management
Author: Norman Willoughby
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2006-08-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412241200

This book is a management manual with particular emphasis on the control of projects across all sectors of government, civil society and industry. It covers the gamut through planning, organization, responsibility, communication, contracts and monitoring. Non Governmental Organizations have found it particularly useful and many of the practical illustrations are taken from actual events and planning exercises. The author's website contains reviews and abstracts from the book as well as numerous charts and diagrams that illustrate the book's concepts. website: http://whatwentwrong.homestead.com

Financially Focused Project Management

Financially Focused Project Management
Author: Thomas M. Cappels
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781932159097

Financially Focused Project Management is a comprehensive reference covering almost every aspect of effective project management and providing breakthrough proven financial methods to ensure profitability.

Software Project Management For Dummies

Software Project Management For Dummies
Author: Teresa Luckey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2011-05-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118084810

The increase in project outsourcing has forced traditional programmers to take on the role of project managers and quickly learn how to manage software projects The author discusses all of the essentials in widely accepted project management methodology, from managing programmers to assessing and eliminating risk The book covers the iterative development model, using Microsoft Project 2003, as well as a variety of methodologies including eXtreme, open source, SQA testing, software life cycle management, and more The companion Web site contains tools, case studies and other resources to help even novices get up and running

Biblical Project Management

Biblical Project Management
Author: Kenrick H. Burgess
Publisher: Elm Hill
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1595559914

This book is about biblical project management, principles, tools, techniques, and practices used by Nehemiah, a cupbearer to the King of the Persian Empire in the re-building of the wall around Jerusalem and its revitalization. It can be used as a manual for project recovery by project sponsors, owners, leaders, project managers and teams managing projects. The book has three parts: Part One deals with the characteristics and definitions of a project and biblical project management, the roles of a project manager, and the importance of stewardship in project management. There is also a brief overview of the Bible, its inspired writers, its impact, legal, financial, and project management systems. Part Two examines Nehemiah’s project recovery management methodology, and his incredible use of advanced project management tools and techniques are demonstrated by referring to the approaches that he used to re-build the wall and achieve spiritual revival in Jerusalem. The reader will learn: about Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah how to prepare a project background and project definition report how to make successful interventions and to present the case for the recovery of a project to owners, sponsors, politicians and public officials how to conduct a detailed assessment of a troubled project how to do project reviews and document the variances in the scope of works, objectives, milestones, resources, quality, risks and expected deliverables, and to decide on the way forward about the capabilities required by the project manager to rescue projects such as courage; leadership; project management skills; technical competencies; project knowledge and understanding; wisdom; solving disputes; assessing the actual scope of works required; and evaluating the cultural, political, economic, social, environmental, and technical issues what to include in a final assessment report how to prepare the work breakdown structure, precedence network diagram; milestone plan, responsibility matrix, project organization, risk management plan how to develop the fifteen plans necessary for construction and control planning teamwork strategies, networking, project oversight, monitoring, tracking, construction management, stakeholders’ management and analyses, reasons why projects fail, the role of a project champion, and critical success factors for rescuing troubled projects Nehemiah’s project recovery management methodology how to revitalize and bring spiritual revival to a city how to conduct an ex-post evaluation of a project, and how to dedicate a project. Part Three discusses a) the significance-driven project manager; b) leadership; c) the significance of the walls, towers and gates around Jerusalem; d) how to follow the footsteps of Nehemiah, and e) power tools and power required for project managers.

11 Hearts, 11 Helmets, 1 Goal The Austin Outlaws Women's Professional Football Team

11 Hearts, 11 Helmets, 1 Goal The Austin Outlaws Women's Professional Football Team
Author: Dennis Stostad
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011-12-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1105370895

The Austin Outlaws is a women's professional football team. They play full-contact NFL rules and have been doing this since the year 2000. Based in Austin, Texas, they play an eight game schedule in the spring of each year. In 2003 I started shooting action photos of Outlaws games and practices. In 2011 I started a blog to showcase my photos. Along with hundreds of photos, the blog includes my insights about football and any other subjects that interest me. It is a mixture of serious and silly, fun for me to do and fun for fans to visit. My blog server suggested creating a book of my blog posts - and this is that book. It is a collection of selected blog posts taken nearly exactly as they originally appeared in the blog. I've done some editing to adapt to the book format. The book is fun and a great keepsake for Austin Outlaw players. The blog is: http: //womenwhoplayfootballplus.blogspot.com/.

Selected Proceedings from the 14th International Congress on Project Engineering

Selected Proceedings from the 14th International Congress on Project Engineering
Author: Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos
Publisher: Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO)
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 8461465237

The Spanish Association of Project Engineering is pleased to publish the following selection of the best papers presented at the 13th International Congress on Project Engineering. After having organized an annual Congress with an array of universities over the last 16 years —first at the national and then at the international level— by the end of 2008 the AEIPRO Directive Board decided to establish a Scientific Committee to evaluate the papers presented at the Congress. The Scientific Committee has also chosen the works to be published in the selected proceedings of the Congress. The procedures to establish the Scientific Committee and evaluate the submitted papers are explained below in detail. It is the hope of the Committee that the compiled works contribute to the improvement of project engineering research and improve the transfer of results to the job of Project Engineers.

Blue Helmets and Black Markets

Blue Helmets and Black Markets
Author: Peter Andreas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0801457041

The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the most visible face of post-Cold War conflict and humanitarian intervention. However, some critical activities took place backstage, away from the cameras, including extensive clandestine trading across the siege lines, theft and diversion of aid, and complicity in the black market by peacekeeping forces. In Blue Helmets and Black Markets, Peter Andreas traces the interaction between these formal front-stage and informal backstage activities, arguing that this created and sustained a criminalized war economy and prolonged the conflict in a manner that served various interests on all sides. Although the vast majority of Sarajevans struggled for daily survival and lived in a state of terror, the siege was highly rewarding for some key local and international players. This situation also left a powerful legacy for postwar reconstruction: new elites emerged via war profiteering and an illicit economy flourished partly based on the smuggling networks built up during wartime. Andreas shows how and why the internationalization of the siege changed the repertoires of siege-craft and siege defenses and altered the strategic calculations of both the besiegers and the besieged. The Sarajevo experience dramatically illustrates that just as changes in weapons technologies transformed siege warfare through the ages, so too has the arrival of CNN, NGOs, satellite phones, UN peacekeepers, and aid convoys. Drawing on interviews, reportage, diaries, memoirs, and other sources, Andreas documents the business of survival in wartime Sarajevo and the limits, contradictions, and unintended consequences of international intervention. Concluding with a comparison of the battle for Sarajevo with the sieges of Leningrad, Grozny, and Srebrenica, and, more recently, Falluja, Blue Helmets and Black Markets is a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary urban warfare, war economies, and the political repercussions of humanitarian action.