Download or read book Guerrilla Project Management written by Kenneth T. Hanley M.Eng. and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fast, Flexible Approach to Managing Any Project — Right Here, Right Now! To manage effectively in today's complex project environment, you need a framework of project management (PM) competencies, processes, and tools that can be put to use immediately and that flexes and scales to meet the needs of any project. In Guerrilla Project Management, Ken Hanley emphasizes key project management competencies, including managing stakeholders effectively, assessing risk accurately, and getting agreement on the objective measures of project success. Focusing on these and other competencies as well as effective PM processes and tools, Hanley presents an alternative approach to project management that is light, fast, and flexible — and adapts readily to the many changes every project manager faces. Offering tips and techniques on topics ranging from communication and reporting practices to risk mitigation, this practical book is organized to allow readers to work through all aspects of a project or quickly find answers to specific problems. This is the go-to guide for today's nimble project manager!
Download or read book Guerrilla Project Management written by Kenneth T. Hanley and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fast, Flexible Approach to Managing Any Project — Right Here, Right Now! To manage effectively in today's complex project environment, you need a framework of project management (PM) competencies, processes, and tools that can be put to use immediately and that flexes and scales to meet the needs of any project. In Guerrilla Project Management, Ken Hanley emphasizes key project management competencies, including managing stakeholders effectively, assessing risk accurately, and getting agreement on the objective measures of project success. Focusing on these and other competencies as well as effective PM processes and tools, Hanley presents an alternative approach to project management that is light, fast, and flexible — and adapts readily to the many changes every project manager faces. Offering tips and techniques on topics ranging from communication and reporting practices to risk mitigation, this practical book is organized to allow readers to work through all aspects of a project or quickly find answers to specific problems. This is the go-to guide for today's nimble project manager!
Download or read book Guerrilla Project Management written by Shane Hills and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAKE CONTROL of TROUBLED IT PROJECTS. According to the CHAOS Report, a widely cited industry study from the Standish Group, more than two-thirds of IT projects either fail outright or leave stakeholders disappointed. However, a lesser-known statistic from the Center for Business Practices is that organizations which use a standardized recovery process experience an 83% higher success rate than those which do not. In other words, INTERVENTION WORKS. And that's exactly what Guerrilla Project Management (GPM) is - an intervention strategy for troubled IT projects. Recognizing a strong demand for project recovery services, Shane A. Hills, PMP, wrote Guerrilla Project Management as a 40-page "airplane read" designed to cut to the jugular and empower you with an immediate action plan. The author uses the booklet as a handout when speaking on the subject of rescuing troubled IT projects. GPM empowers your organization to 1) Identify and mitigate risk and exposure; 2) Rapidly assess the viability of your project; 3) Restore order, clarity and direction; 4) Eliminate the project's roadblocks; 5) Expedite the delivery of high-priority functionality; 6) Achieve fast results using a streamlined process; 7) Inspire confidence with a highly visible leadership initiative; and 8) Greatly reduce the likelihood of project failure. Popular sections include "The Top 25 Reasons for IT Project Failure," "Why Most Turnaround Attempts Fail," and "The Guerrilla Justification Criteria." Find all of this and much more, including process flow diagrams, in the book.
Download or read book Guerrilla Teambuilding written by John F. Zagotta and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guerrilla Teambuilding outlines specific steps for a project manager's use to create new work groups, implement effective team processes, and achieve success in ongoing team efforts. It accomplishes these goals by establishing win-win working relationships between manager and team members, using specific strategies designed to maximize individual and team-based strengths, leverage the positives of team diversity, optimize effective team member communication, and achieve individual and team peak performance states.
Download or read book The Guerrilla Principle written by Jacques Magliolo and published by Double Storey Books. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategy, research, and corporate finance meet general project management and comprehensive case studies in this exhaustive guide to business administration. From initiating a project and prioritizing objectives to making team decisions and dealing with change, each step is thoroughly explained and explored. Theoretical business and financial concepts are also transformed into practical and useful advice in this approachable manual.
Download or read book Guerrilla Analytics written by Enda Ridge and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing data science is difficult. Projects are typically very dynamic with requirements that change as data understanding grows. The data itself arrives piecemeal, is added to, replaced, contains undiscovered flaws and comes from a variety of sources. Teams also have mixed skill sets and tooling is often limited. Despite these disruptions, a data science team must get off the ground fast and begin demonstrating value with traceable, tested work products. This is when you need Guerrilla Analytics. In this book, you will learn about: The Guerrilla Analytics Principles: simple rules of thumb for maintaining data provenance across the entire analytics life cycle from data extraction, through analysis to reporting. Reproducible, traceable analytics: how to design and implement work products that are reproducible, testable and stand up to external scrutiny. Practice tips and war stories: 90 practice tips and 16 war stories based on real-world project challenges encountered in consulting, pre-sales and research. Preparing for battle: how to set up your team's analytics environment in terms of tooling, skill sets, workflows and conventions. Data gymnastics: over a dozen analytics patterns that your team will encounter again and again in projects The Guerrilla Analytics Principles: simple rules of thumb for maintaining data provenance across the entire analytics life cycle from data extraction, through analysis to reporting Reproducible, traceable analytics: how to design and implement work products that are reproducible, testable and stand up to external scrutiny Practice tips and war stories: 90 practice tips and 16 war stories based on real-world project challenges encountered in consulting, pre-sales and research Preparing for battle: how to set up your team's analytics environment in terms of tooling, skill sets, workflows and conventions Data gymnastics: over a dozen analytics patterns that your team will encounter again and again in projects
Download or read book Guerrilla Capacity Planning written by Neil J. Gunther and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under today’s shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by management as inflating production schedules. In the face of relentless pressure to get things done faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not. The book introduces such concepts as an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of Capacity Planning," and Virtual Load Testing, which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.
Download or read book The Complete Project Manager written by Randall Englund and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Project Manager: Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills is the practical guide that addresses the “soft” project management skills that are so essential to successful project, program, and portfolio management. Through a storytelling approach, the authors explain the necessary skills—and how to use them—to create an environment that supports project success. They demonstrate both the “why” and the “how” of creatively applying soft project management skills in the areas of leadership, conflict resolution, negotiations, change management, and more. This guide has an accompanying workbook, The Complete Project Manager's Toolkit , sold separately.
Download or read book The Virtual Project Management Office written by Robert L. Gordon DM and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully Launch and Operate a Virtual Project Management Office New technology and global businesses and organizations are making virtual project management offices (VPMOs) more important and more prevalent than ever. Successfully operating a VPMO requires project managers to employ additional skills and address different challenges from those necessary to operate a traditional PMO. For example, the virtual project manager must have effective soft skills to build trust among a dispersed team and to select the best forms of communication. He or she must also ensure compliance with the unique policies, procedures, and laws relevant to maintaining a VPMO. This book offers best practices for successful virtual projects and the most effective ways to create and implement a PMO in a virtual environment. It's a valuable resource for companies considering a VPMO and those already operating one. You'll find: - Proven implementation plans - Guidance for building a business case - Laws and ethics governing VPMOs - Tips and advice from experts Plus! Dozens of practical tools to use in launching a VPMO or improving an existing project management office.
Download or read book Perspectives in Project Management written by Raufdeen Rameezdeen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the contributions to this volume are condensed versions of research projects undertaken by students in the final year of the online Master of Project Management degree delivered by the University of South Australia in conjunction with Open Universities Australia. Contributors to this book consist primarily of graduated Masters’ students, supported by supervising academics and relevant industry specialists and practitioners. As a result, the authors present current research interests across the breadth of Australia – with many of the perspectives demonstrating relevance to practice globally. The research perspectives presented here focus on four key themes of project management theory and practice: people and organisations; methodologies and practice domains; issues in application; and continuous improvement and benchmarking. Collectively, this work will be of particular interest to project management academics and researchers, post-graduate students, and the broader project management community.
Download or read book The Enterprise Business Analyst written by Kathleen B. Hass PMP and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Analysts: Chart Your Path to Success with Creative Solutions to Complex Business Problems! Business in the 21st century is rife with complexity. To leverage that complexity and guide an organization through these turbulent times, today's business analyst must transition from a tactical, project-focused role to a creative, innovative role. The path to this transition—and the tools to accomplish it—are presented in this new book by acclaimed author Kathleen “Kitty“ Hass. Winner of PMI's David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award for her book Managing Complex Projects: A New Model, Hass has again written a book that will refocus a discipline. Hass believes that only by confronting and capitalizing on change and complexity—the new “constants” in today's world—can organizations forge ahead. The enterprise business analyst is perfectly positioned to understand the needs of an organization, help it remain competitive, identify creative solutions to complex business problems, bring about innovation, and constantly add value for the customer and revenue to the bottom line. The Enterprise Business Analyst: Developing Creative Solutions to Complex Business Problems offers: • An overview of the current and emerging role of the business analyst • New leadership models for the 21st century • Methods for fostering team creativity • Practices to spark innovation • Strategies for communicating in a complex environment
Download or read book Mastering Guerrilla Marketing written by Jay Conrad Levinson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one knows how to use the weapons of the trade better than industry expert Jay Levinson," said Entrepreneur magazine. And this is "the book of a lifetime" from the man whose take-no-prisoners approach has revolutionized small-business marketing strategies. Culled from years of experience, it is the reference for small-business owners, managers, and home-based business folk alike.
Download or read book Guerrilla Warfare in the Corporate Jungle written by K.F. Dochartaigh and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using his experiences of life in the corporate jungle, K.F. Dochartaigh has produced a survival manual that assists and guides the reader on how best to navigate corporate pitfalls and avoid being ‘trapped’. The book fuses three separate but intertwined disciplines of the animal kingdom, the guerrilla battlefield, and the corporate world to help establish patterns of behavior and to understand the motivations that drive each action. All three areas share a common environment: the jungle, where visibility is limited, and ambush is the only method of attack by predators. The book blends animal and human psychology and provides safe passage in all its encounters. This book does not condone war—in fact, quite the opposite—and, as you will see, it takes more of a defensive position in repelling attacks and seeks to promote the occurrence of collaboration over individual competition, which will also become apparent. It is not a “call to arms” or a promotion of anarchy—not by any stretch of the imagination—as it merely assists the individual in adapting within their environment in order to ensure their survival. Whether you work as an accountant, IT consultant, lawyer, salesperson, or project manager, the same logic still applies because there is a natural order in all corporate vocations.
Download or read book Guerrilla Agile Implementing Agile Practices in the Corporate World written by Joe McFadden and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is written for IT and business leaders charged with delivering software against tight deadlines to support your organization's competitive business strategies while complying with an ever-growing amount of regulatory oversight. Guerrilla Agile addresses implementing agile in large, highly regulated organizations, within the company's existing forms of governance and controls"--Back cover.
Download or read book A Manager s Guide to Guerrilla Warfare written by Barry H. Harrin and published by Barry Harrin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique guide begins by shocking us with future headlines such as Statue of Liberty moved to Tokyo Bay & Pearl Harbor Memorial dismantled, then quickly jars us back to the present by identifying the real cause of America's current gloomy business outlook. The guide serves as an equalizer, teaching you in step-by-step fashion how to survive the corporate reign of terror accompanying mergers, acquisitions & takeovers. Once you have survived the reign of terror, it shows you how you get promoted in spite of it-without stepping on others. Written in a humorous, easy-to-understand style, this book is packed with more specific, useful business tactics & strategies than any other volume of its type.
Download or read book The Project Management Coaching Workbook written by Susanne Madsen and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take These Six Steps to Reach Your Project Management and Leadership Goals! Starting with an insightful self-assessment, The Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential offers tools, questions, reviews, guiding practices, and exercises that will help you build your roadmap to project management and leadership success. Based on her experience as a coach and mentor, Susanne Madsen offers a proven six-step method designed to help you understand and articulate what you want to achieve—and then assist you in achieving those goals. This workbook will help project managers at any level overcome some of the most common challenges they face by: • Effectively managing a demanding workload • Leading and motivating a team • Building effective relationships with senior stakeholders • Managing risks, issues, and changes to scope • Delegating effectively
Download or read book The Complete Project Manager s Toolkit written by Randall Englund MBA, BSEE, NPDP, CBM and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Are the Tools to Achieve Project Management Success Buy both The Complete Project Manager and The Complete Project Manager's Toolkit and save $18 at checkout by entering coupon code COMBO1. This companion to The Complete Project Manager provides the tools you need to integrate key people, organizational, and technical skills. The core book establishes that success in any environment depends largely upon completing successful projects; this book gives you the means and methods to meet that goal. The hands-on, action-oriented tools in this book will help you develop a complete set of skills—the right set for you to excel in today's competitive environment. The Complete Project Manager's Toolkit will enable you to implement the easy-to-understand, universal, powerful, and immediately applicable concepts presented in The Complete Project Manager. You may already be aware of what you need to do; this book supplies the how through: • Assessments • Checklists • Exercises • Examples of real people applying the concepts. Use these tested methods to overcome environmental, personal, social, organizational, and business barriers to successful project management! Although The Complete Project Manager can be used as a stand-alone book, it is designed to complement The Complete Project Manager: Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills.
