It's also a useful tool for managing a range of business projects. This book tracks typical operations management MBA courses, and it will help you un-muddle concepts like process mapping, bottlenecks, Lean Production, and supply chain management.
Learn to step into a business, see what needs improving, and plug in the latest tools and ideas to shape things up in any industry. This latest edition covers, you guessed it, digital transformation. Technology is completely upending operations management, and Dummies walks you through the latest, so you can stay at the front of the pack.
Other new stuff inside: supply chain traceability, ethical sourcing and carbon footprint, business resiliency, and modularizing the supply chain. Optimize operations and increase revenue with strategies and ideas that make businesses run better and cheaper Get easy-to-understand explanations of complex topics and theories in operations management Learn how operations management is affected by digital transformation and sustainability concerns Evaluate, design, improve, and scale all sorts of processes, regardless of business size or area of operation Businesses can't operate successfully without effective operations and supply management.
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Discover what scrum offers project and product teams Integrate scrum into your agile project management strategy Plan your retirement or a family reunion using scrum Prioritize for releases with sprints No matter your career path or job title, the principles of scrum are designed to make your life easier. Why not give it a try?
Your go-to project management guide! Project managers are among the most sought-after people in today's business universe. Here's your one-stop guide to all the information and advice you need for masterful project management!
Hone your skills in sizing, organizing, scheduling, and handling projects to help teams maximize their productivity as you make yourself indispensible. Whether you're new to project management or an experienced pro, this book has the resources you need to get the job done.
Guide your project to success from initial idea to final delivery In today's time-pressured, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and high expectations are the norm. Projects are now the standard way of implementing change, and project management has become a vital skill for successful business professionals. Project Management For Dummies shows you how to succeed by focusing on what you need to deliver and then how to plan and control the project in order to deliver it.
You will learn how to plan, keep the project on track, manage teams and control risk. You'll even get some tips on software — including free stuff — that will make things easier for you.
Who, What, and Why — understand the expectations of your project Laying the foundations — learn to build your plans with a sturdy structure from start to finish The selection process — see how to get the very best from your teams Get in the driving seat — learn to take control and steer your project to success Open the book and find: Clear and simple explanation of powerful planning techniques Ways to track progress and stay in control How to identify and then control risk to protect your project Why understanding your project's stakeholders is key How to use technology to up your game Tips for writing a clear and convincing business case Advice on being an effective leader Techniques to help you work effectively with teams and specialists Learn to: Motivate your teams to perform to their full potential Plan, execute and deliver your projects with confidence Stay in control to deliver on time, within budget and to the right quality.
Your ultimate go-to project management bible Perform Be Agile! Right now, the business world has never moved so fast and project managers have never been so much in demand—the Project Management Institute has estimated that industries will need at least 87 million employees with the full spectrum of PM skills by To help you meet those needs and expectations in time, Project Management All-in-One For Dummies provides with all the hands-on information and advice you need to take your organizational, planning, and execution skills to new heights.
Packed with on-point PM wisdom, these 7 mini-books—including the bestselling Project Management and Agile Project Management For Dummies—help you and your team hit maximum productivity by razor-honing your skills in sizing, organizing, and scheduling projects for ultimate effectiveness.
Apply formats and formulas and checklists Manage Continuous Process Improvement Resolve conflict in teams and hierarchies Rescue distressed projects. 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 , 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.
The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to develop a more agile approach and understand how to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies, and practices to create an appropriate balance of control and agility to fit a business environment as well as the risks and complexities of any individual project. The book will also provide business managers and leaders an understanding of how to fit agile methodologies into an overall business strategy that provides the right balance of control and agility for their business.
The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons—the successes and failures—culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management.
Gain the foundation in Scrum theory—and practice—you need to: Rein in even the most complex, unwieldy projects Effectively manage unknown or changing product requirements Simplify the chain of command with self-managing development teams Receive clearer specifications—and feedback—from customers Greatly reduce project planning time and required tools Build—and release—products in day cycles so clients get deliverables earlier Avoid missteps by regularly inspecting, reporting on, and fine-tuning projects Support multiple teams working on a large-scale project from many geographic locations Maximize return on investment!
Agile Project Management, Simplified Are you tired of being unprepared for changing project requirements? Not the case with Agile. 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. As a project manager, you know that Agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about Agile to reap the rewards? The Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide from ClydeBank Business dives into the core mechanics and intricacies along with the many variations and spin-offs of Agile Project Management while maintaining a beginner-friendly approach.
Stakeholder needs are always changing. Project progress needs to be measurable. It's essential reading for anyone with a stake in the world's most exciting marketplace. This is a new thing that we need to accept. Amazon Reviews. Here is the best-selling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Agile project teams are made up of many people and include the following five roles:.
This is a dummy description. Stakeholders: Anyone with an interest in gor project. Agile project management focuses on continuous improvement, scope flexibility, team input, and delivering essential quality products.
Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason. In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize—winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Each book covers all the necessary information a beginner needs to know about a particular topic, providing an index for easy reference and using the series' signature set of symbols to clue the reader in to key topics, categorized under such titles as Tip, Remember, Warning!
This training and reference guide provides a comprehensive coverage of Project Management theory that is applied to the use of Microsoft Project , from the project manager's perspective. Our debut of Project Management Using Microsoft Project was well received by the project management community in over 25 countries.
It has been so successful that we decided to convert that work to our new version for Project Management Using Microsoft Project We have improved the hands-on exercises with new features, we have re-captured the screen images in larger, improved quality and higher resolution. We have also added the new features in Microsoft Project , especially the new Resource Engagement feature.
This text has been created to serve as a comprehensive reference and training guide that presents the main principles of project management theory which is then applied to the best practices of using Microsoft Project When used cover-to-cover, this text serves as a comprehensive guide to running a project from definition and initiation thru execution and closeout, accompanied with hands-on guidance that shows how to effectively apply project management principles to the use of Microsoft Project.
The hands-on exercises are delivered in appropriate detail that provide detailed, step-by-step illustrations, supported by actual Microsoft Project files that can be download from our training web page. This is the same training material that we use to deliver all our Microsoft Project training for our clients. Each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives and finishes with questions that reinforce the learning that occurs throughout each chapter.
For academic audiences, we provide the answer key for all questions and supporting PowerPoint slides for instructors. Many training guides on technology are primarily manuals on features and functions of the software.
The goal of this book is to show why those features and functions are important from a project management standpoint based on PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK , and then demonstrate how to effectively leverage that value in the use of Microsoft Project Learn step-by-step instructions for managing any project in a clean sequence of five classic phases—initiating, planning, executing, releasing, and closing.
This book sets out clearly and engagingly which tasks need to be done and when, how, and why they need to be done. The checklists are graphically supplemented by flow charts and swim lane diagrams. The master checklist serves as a map and tool for project managers to use in the real world to run projects and keep them on track.
Senior project manager and PM mentor Melanie McBride understands the predicament of beginning and junior project managers: 'You're at the edge of a tornado, bombarded by overly excited people offering you a Mission Impossible. Everywhere you look there are cool shiny things swirling around your head—the earnest coworker telling you to go agile, the software package promising a turnkey collaboration solution, the PMO with an arm-long list of required processes.
So how do you avoid getting whacked in the head by that airborne Mac truck of a customer commit? Oh, and what exactly do you need to do to get those flying monkeys to shut up? What You Will Learn See the essential duties of a project manager Master the project management life cycle in five phases Discover the what, when, how, and why of PM tasks presented in detailed steps Leverage checklists for optimum efficiency and throughput Adapt workflow controls to low-PM organizations Enhance PM with vogue methodologies without obscuring the basics Who This Book Is For Beginning and junior project managers seeking a concise, authoritative guide to the basics of project management, together with checklists, flow charts, and swim lane diagrams for immediate use in real-world projects.
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