Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management
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Realizing Strategy through Projects: The Executive's Guide
1st Edition
By Carl Marnewick
June 30, 2021
Executives should not necessarily know the intricacies of project management, but they should know how project management, as a discipline, can benefit the organization in implementing its strategies and realizing its vision. The only way that executives can effectively apply project management to ...
The Human Change Management Body of Knowledge (HCMBOK®)
3rd Edition
By Vicente Goncalves, Carla Campos
June 30, 2021
"I am happy to recommend this work. I believe in the principles presented in it and identify with its context. Due to the lack of knowledge on the subject in the market, it is a topic that must be made known. The book should be in the library of all project and change managers."— Paul Dinsmore, PMI...
Leading Virtual Project Teams: Adapting Leadership Theories and Communications Techniques to 21st Century Organizations
2nd Edition
By Margaret R. Lee
April 06, 2021
The second decade of the 21st century has brought unprecedented challenges to traditional workplaces. The global pandemic has forced the advance of working from home and telework. Individuals with little or no background or training in e-leadership, virtual project management, or virtual team ...
Project Business Management
1st Edition
By Oliver F. Lehmann
July 31, 2020
Roughly half of all project managers have to lead customer projects as profit centers on contractor side with two big objectives: making the customer happy and bringing money home. Customer projects are a high-risk business on both sides, customers and contractors, but the dynamics of this business...
Ethics and Governance in Project Management: Small Sins Allowed and the Line of Impunity
1st Edition
By Eduardo Victor Lopez, Alicia Medina
December 10, 2019
This book shows executive, project, program, and portfolio managers how ethical behavior can ensure that an organization has proper governance. Improper governance and unethical behavior have led to such well-known financial disasters as Enron and Madoff Investments. The book arms managers with two...
Managing Project Competence: The Lemon and the Loop
1st Edition
By Rolf Medina
December 10, 2019
For companies to be successful, the management of an organization needs to understand how competence evolves and how it can be utilized and linked to the organization’s goals. When executive managers understand this, there is a higher probability that the people working in the organization will be ...
PgMP® Exam Test Preparation: Test Questions, Practice Tests, and Simulated Exams
1st Edition
By Ginger Levin, PMP, PgMP
May 31, 2018
In addition to test questions in each of the five domains and two practice tests in print and online, this all-in-one study guide also contains flashcards for learning terms. This book is current with The Standard for Program Management, Fourth Edition, and its author is the second person in the ...
IT Project Management: A Geek's Guide to Leadership
1st Edition
By Byron A. Love
September 08, 2016
This book’s author, Byron Love, admits proudly to being an IT geek. However, he had found that being an IT geek was limiting his career path and his effectiveness. During a career of more than 31 years, he has made the transition from geek to geek leader. He hopes this book helps other geeks do the...
Situational Project Management: The Dynamics of Success and Failure
1st Edition
By Oliver F. Lehmann
July 01, 2016
Most project managers would agree that every project is unique. But not all project managers would agree that the best way to manage a unique project is unique. Many still cling to the old practice of having a methodology that is applied to all projects. "One size fits all" is still in common use, ...
Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and Portfolio Management Approach
1st Edition
By Kristina Kohl
May 13, 2016
Organizations find that a performance gap exists between sustainability vision and benefits realization. Effecting transformational change requires incorporating sustainability into organization’s culture including policies, processes, and people. Although they are often overlooked, project ...
Improving Business Performance: A Project Portfolio Management Approach
1st Edition
By Ramani S
February 09, 2016
No organization is impervious to change. Rather, the survival and growth of an organization is dependent on how well it copes with change. Successful change initiatives consist of the integrated eco-system of its portfolio, programs, and projects. These change initiatives become the delivery ...
Leading and Managing Innovation: What Every Executive Team Must Know about Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Russell D. Archibald, Shane Archibald
December 10, 2015
The primary cause of many project failures is that responsible executives, because of their lack of knowledge in project management, fail to demand that their managers and staff properly utilize the well-proven best practices, processes, systems, and tools that are now available in this field. This...