Название: Managing IT Projects: How to Pragmatically Deliver Projects for External Customers
Автор: Marcin Dabrowski
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2023
Страниц: 227
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Urgent deadlines, constant lack of time, permanent delays - these are the most faithful companions and, at the same time, the greatest enemies of the project manager. Even certified project managers, people with enormous knowledge and a lot of experience, find themselves in a situation where they need great mental resilience in order not to give up. The book is a complete manual for all critical situations a project manager might need to handle along the project’s lifecycle. Written by a project manager with many years of experience, each chapter contains real-life examples with analysis and guidelines. You’ll benefit from the down-to-earth knowledge that usually project managers learn over the course of years in critical and stressful situations with no preparation beforehand. It’s not about academic methodologies – it’s about pragmatic solutions that work in real-life. For software developers, project managers, engineering managers and software development directors, sales reps, executive and founders.

Название: The Project Manager's Guide to Mastering Agile: Principles and Practices for an Adaptive Approach, 2nd Edition
Автор: Charles G. Cobb
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2023
Страниц: 605
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 19.5 MB

Updated guide to Agile methodologies, with real-world case studies and valuable frameworks for project managers moving to Agile. The Project Manager's Guide to Mastering Agile helps project managers who are faced with the challenge of adapting their project management approach to an Agile environment, showing how these approaches can work jointly to improve project outcomes in any project, with discussion topics and real-world case studies that facilitate hands-on learning. It also provides project managers with the fundamental knowledge to take a leadership role in working with companies to develop a well-integrated, enterprise-level Agile Project Management approach to fit their business.

Название: Digitalizing Sustainability: The Five Forces of Digital Transformation
Автор: Kathryn Sforcina
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2023
Страниц: 161
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Digitalizing Sustainability outlines why 'business as usual' isn't working and sets out five Transformational Forces which can be used to innovate and scale sustainability solutions using digital means. This transformation will be powered by a range of digital technologies that have the potential to ideate, propel and scale sustainability solutions in an exponential manner over the next decade. This book introduces the Five Forces of Digital Transformation. These forces all share a common root - they are powered by digital technologies that enable them to operate at the speed and scale that we need to achieve global transformation for people and planet. Working together, these forces help overcome many of the barriers and pitfalls that humanity has faced in trying to achieve sustainability 2.0. Disruptive and innovative, this book provides readers with a clear path forward to a sustainable digital future. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in the adoption of digital technologies for driving solutions to global sustainability challenges.

Название: How to Invest: Navigating the Brave New World of Personal Finance
Автор: Peter Stanyer, Masood Javaid, Stephen Satchell
Издательство: Pegasus Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 272
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

A dynamic new guide to personal investment for the era of cryptocurrencies and personal trading platforms. We're all investors now. The first quarter of the new century has seen developments in technology, monetary policy, and the management of large companies that have transformed personal savings and investment around the world. Love it, loathe it, or just not interested in it, this innovation has changed not only the nature of money, but our understanding of what it means to invest—whether we want to safeguard our pensions, experiment with personal trading platforms, or simply understand how the markets really work. How to Invest aims to help investors navigate this new world, offering a principles-based, keep-it-simple approach to help them make investment decisions and have investment conversations that will make the most of their money.

Название: Estate Planning For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Автор: Jordan S. Simon, Joseph Mashinski
Издательство: For Dummies
Год: 2023
Страниц: 403
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 11.1 MB

Get your arms around wills, trusts, probate, inheritance taxes, and other important estate planning essentials. Estate Planning For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of estate planning. It’s all about drafting wills, dealing with probate, assigning powers of attorney, establishing living trusts, and beyond. Think you don’t have enough assets to merit estate planning? Think again. This everyone-friendly guide walks you through building a solid estate plan, whatever your current financial situation. In easy-to-understand language, you’ll learn the ins and outs of estate planning, including what happens to your stuff―cash, real estate, businesses, retirement funds, everything―when you pass away. This new edition is updated for the many recent changes in estate taxes and inheritance law. Make sure your assets get into the pockets of your heirs or wherever you want them to go, and learn how to accomplish it the For Dummies way.

Название: A.G.I.L.E. Thinking Demystified: Mindset Over Mechanics
Автор: Frank M. Forte
Издательство: Business Expert Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 109
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

This book provides the missing link of how to shift mindsets on how to work effectively. The word agile has moved far beyond its original meaning in helping to transform large organizations. We now know that agile is used as the tool to accelerate an organization's ability to adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating change. This book provides the missing link of how to shift mindsets on how to work effectively. This shift requires an investigation of how we can move organizations in the way they think about work-especially work that does not easily conform to the traditional plan-driven approach. Agile has proven to be the go-to approach to begin to transform organizations in the digital age. Without agile, large organizations struggle to keep up with their nimbler competitors. There are not only external threats, but also internal threats. Employees want to work for customer obsessed organizations that have more than just a profit motive. Agile goes a long way in convincing existing and potential talent that you are the right place for them. Customers have many more options today than they did in the last century, so agile is a way to rally your entire organization toward becoming customer obsessed. All of the potential benefits of agile will not be realized until the leaders first have a higher-level understanding of the mindset that is critical to undertaking the successful journey to becoming more agile.

Название: Understanding the Metaverse: A Business and Ethical Guide
Автор: Nick Rosa
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2023
Страниц: 239
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

An expansive discussion of the mechanics, framework, and implications of the Metaverse. In Understanding the Metaverse: A Business and Ethical Guide, expert product and customer experience strategist Nick Rosa delivers a timely exploration of what is bound to be one of the most important technologies of our time. The author explains the technology that underpins the metaverse as it exists today and that will form the basis for its rapid evolution in the future. He also describes the commercial, ethical, and sociological implications of this technology, showing you the threats and opportunities that individuals and businesses are likely to encounter as they approach the Metaverse for the first time. I will also explain some of the key elements of technology that underpin the Metaverse in its current form and which will provide the necessary foundations for its growth and evolution in the future – such as blockchain, cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning.

Название: Strategic Information System Agility : From Theory to Practices
Автор: Abdelkebir Sahid, Yassine Maleh, Mustapha Belaissaoui
Издательство: Emerald Publishing
Год: 2021
Страниц: 209
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

A company's ability to evolve more efficiently than its competitors in a complex, dynamic and unpredictable environment gives it an undeniable advantage. In this context, and with the increasing automation of manufacturing and decision-making processes, the value of IT use is reinforced and becomes an asset for the company, provided that it achieves IT agility and can maintain it. However, practice and research remain unsatisfactory in providing useful answers on how to achieve agility in this environment. Strategic Information System Agility: From Theory to Practices is an invaluable resource to discover the strategic information technology agility in organizations (Scrum, Agile, DevOps). The purpose of this book is to improve the awareness of strategic information system agility. This book focuses on the impact of IT systems' strategic agility on organizations' business performance in response to highly uncertain and unexpected events that are potentially significant. The book also includes frameworks, practical solutions and technological advances related to IT agility, and draw from the real world of business through case studies in large organizations. The book offers comprehensive coverage of essential topics, including: Agility Concept, Enterprise Information System Agility, Conceptual IT Agility, Strategic IT Service Management Agility, Cloud computing as a driver of IT Agility.

Название: Practical Product Management for Product Owners (Final)
Автор: Chris Lukassen, Robbin Schuurman
Издательство: Addison-Wesley Professional/Pearson Education
Год: 2023
Страниц: 464
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Organizations pour vast resources into building new products and services. Yet too many are poorly conceived, dont delight (or even satisfy) customers, and fail in the marketplace. The solution is more effective agile product ownership and product management. This book is an expert guide to the behaviors, stances, and practices of world-class agile product development, reflecting deep in-the-trenches experience from world-renowned experts. Chris Lukassen and Robbin Schuurman introduce powerful tools, ideas, and skills for delivering superior products and services, and for avoiding pitfalls that keep you from seeing what customers really need and want. Learn through a start-to-finish, Scrum-based case study, drawing on concepts the authors created for their breakthrough Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced (PSPO-A) training course. This innovative approach has already helped thousands of product owners excel--and it can transform the way you create products. This book will help Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to learn about the Product Owner stances, tools, and techniques needed for success so that they can help their Product Owners to become better visionaries, customer representatives, collaborators, decision makers, experimenters, and influencers.

Название: Agile Transformation: Structures, Processes and Mindsets for the Digital Age, 2nd Edition
Автор: Neil Perkin
Издательство: Kogan Page
Год: 2023
Страниц: 305
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 14.0 MB

How can business leaders and organization development professionals enable their companies to succeed in a digital age? Use the second edition of Agile Transformation to improve business performance. Packed full of practical advice, this new edition features updates on data-driven decision-making and the importance of putting it at the centre of mindset change and transformation to empower teams to make decisions. As well as updates to case studies, there is extended material on agile structures, including team alignment, developing agile culture and leadership. Agile Transformation covers all aspects of business transformation needing to be considered: why new operating models are needed, how to apply agile principles at scale, leveraging digital-native processes and why change managers need to think big but start small. It also looks at how to build and engage high-performing teams for change, how to tackle employee mindsets that can hinder agile adoption and why developing an agile business is not a reason to fail to plan. Featuring case studies from organizations including Amazon, Netflix and Vodafone, this is crucial reading for businesses wanting to effectively compete in the new world of work.