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41. |  Die Kunst des IT-Projektmanagements , Second Edition By: Scott Berkun Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag Publication Date: 30-JUN-2009 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Die Kunst des IT-Projektmanagements , Second Edition
IT-Projekte sind vielschichtig: Neben der eigentlichen Softwareentwicklung gilt es, den Überblick über Termine, Kosten und Qualität zu behalten. Nicht selten scheitern Softwareprojekte an mangelnder Organisation. Oft übersehen die Beteiligten, welche Anforderungen an Kommunikation, Koordination und Kreativität die Entwicklung eines neuen Produkts stellt.
Die Kunst des IT-Projektmanagements, 2. Auflage, räumt mit solchen Missständen auf: Praxisorientiert und witzig beleuchtet Autor und Projektmanager Scott Berkun die klassischen Aufgaben, Facetten und Mechanismen des Projektmanagements.
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42. |  By: Chris Chapman; Stephen Ward Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 27-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 25-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Since I wrote the Foreword for the second edition of this book, risk management processes have become much more widely used, but controversy about what should be done and how best to do it has grown. Managing risk is a risky business. Chapman and Ward provide an in-depth explanation of why it is important to understand and manage underlying uncertainty in all its forms, in order to realise opportunities more fully and enhance corporate performance. They show what best practice should look like. The implications go well beyond the conventional wisdom of project risk management, providing an...
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43. |  The Project Workout, 4th Edition By: Robert Buttrick Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 10-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 24-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Project Workout, 4th Edition
" an important book, taking a lead role in growing a new generation of professional project managers ." Oded Cohen, The Goldratt Institute . Put yourself and your business through the Project Workout learn to direct and manage the programmes and projects that will deliver results, drive change and improve the health of your business. Project Workout shows you how to: Identify and overcome common challenges Measure critical success factors in any project Master a staged framework for managing a project Set up your project and manage the team, the schedule,...
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44. |  Information Technology Project Management: Providing Measurable Organizational Value, Fourth Edition Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 21-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 19-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Information Technology Project Management: Providing Measurable Organizational Value, Fourth Edition
The new edition of Marchewa's Information Technology Project Management focuses on more simplified chapters, practical examples and the addition of small case studies to every chapter. The text contains the same level of depth and brevity that's simply written and easy to understand as previous issues. Marchewka continues to focus on how to create measurable organizational value (MOV) to create a solid foundation for making decisions throughout the project's lifecycle as well as for integrating project management and IT concepts, tools, and techniques.
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45. |  Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process By: Nancy Lyons; Meghan Wilker Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 12-APR-2012 Insert Date: 19-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process As an industry, interactive is different. The work entails
elements of software development, marketing, and advertising, yet
it’s neither purely technical nor traditional
“agency” work. Delivery methods are different, and
because the industry is relatively new, the gap in understanding
between the clients buying the work and the teams building it is
often wide. Enter the geek girls guide. Nancy Lyons and Meghan
Wilker don’t just tell you how to deliver digital work, they
demonstrate how to think about it.
Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process helps
clients, agencies,...
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46. |  Project Management for Non-Project Managers By: Jack Ferraro Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 18-APR-2012 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management for Non-Project Managers
Great managers are experts at getting bottom-line results, but often do not understand their role in the success or failure of their organization’s projects.
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47. |  Your Project Management Coach: Best Practices for Managing Projects in the Real World By: Bonnie Biafore; Teresa Stover Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 21-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Your Project Management Coach: Best Practices for Managing Projects in the Real World
A pragmatic approach to project management
Many projects fail to deliver on time or on budget, or even to deliver a workable product that satisfies the customer. While good project management goes a long way towards ensuring success, managers often fail to follow the plans they implement. This unique guide helps you understand and successfully handle project management, once and for all. Covering practical ways to solve problems you'll typically face when managing actual projects, this pragmatic book takes you through a full project management lifecycle. You'll find ample tips,...
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48. |  Project Management For Dummies®, UK Edition By: Nick Graham; Stanley E. Portny Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 22-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management For Dummies®, UK Edition
In today's time-pressured, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. Project Management For Dummies shows business professionals what works and what doesn't by examining the field's best practices. You can learn how to organise, estimate, and schedule projects more efficiently. Discover how to manage deliverables, issue changes, assess risks, maintain communications, and live up to expectations by making the most of the latest technology and software and by avoiding common problems that can trip up even the best project...
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49. |  By: Nick Graham Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 22-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PRINCE2™ For Dummies®
Whatever your project - no matter how big or small - PRINCE2 For Dummies, 2009 Edition is the perfect guide to using this project management method to help ensure its success.
Fully updated with the 2009 practice guidelines, this book will take you through every step of a project - from planning and establishing roles to closing and reviewing - offering practical and easy-to-understand advice on using PRINCE2. It also shows how to use the method when approaching the key concerns of project management, including setting up effective controls, managing project risk, managing quality and...
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50. | Overview: Project 2010 For Dummies®
A friendly reference guide to Microsoft Project, the leading enterprise project management software
As project management software, Microsoft Project allows you to oversee your business activities effectively. You can manage resources, share project info, perform modeling and scenario analysis, and standardize reporting processes. This easy-to-understand guide is completely updated to cover the latest changes and newest enhancements to Project 2010 and shows you how to get Project 2010 to work for you.
After an introduction to basic project management concepts, you'll discover the...
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51. |  By: Paul C Dinsmore; Luiz Rocha; David L Pells Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 28-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 09-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | New projects are the key to ensuring an organization’s growth and as we enter an increasingly competitive global economy, companies of all stripes struggle to effectively govern the multiplicity of projects needed to survive and prosper....
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52. |  The Product Manager’s Handbook, Fourth Edition By: Linda Gorchels Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 17-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Product Manager’s Handbook, Fourth Edition The essential guide to seamless product management for today’s fluid, unpredictable business worldLong considered the most useful and insightful guide of its kind, The Product Manager’s Handbook has been fully revised and updated to give you the edge in today’s challenging business landscape. It features expanded coverage of product development processes, intelligence-gathering techniques (including social media), and a greater emphasis on international issues.This indispensable resource proves that the techniques and tools product managers use are similar—regardless of what industry they...
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53. |  The ABCs of Evaluation: Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers, Third Edition By: John Boulmetis; Phyllis Dutwin Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 25-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The ABCs of Evaluation: Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers, Third Edition
Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of bestselling The ABCs of Evaluation offers an introduction to program evaluation. This comprehensive textbook covers topics such as stakeholder relationships, program design, data collection and analysis, reporting results, and other important steps in the evaluation process. The ABCs of Evaluation shows how to select participants for the evaluation and how to deal with multiple goals and objectives—including those of the organization, the staff, and the client. The authors illustrate the circumstances under which each evaluation model...
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54. |  Project Management: Fast Track to Success By: Patrick Harper-Smith; Simon Derry Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 27-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management: Fast Track to Success
GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT. FAST. Projects are there to deliver measurable benefits and value to an organisation. Delivering on time and on budget is important, but project management is not just about doing things right, it is also about doing the right things to get the results your business needs. To be an effective project manager you need to maintain flexibility in all things and to maintain your focus on the fact that it is the business need that is paramount, not the process of getting there . Fast to Success: Project Management , helps you do this by...
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55. |  Brilliant Project Management (Revised Edition) By: Mr Stephen Barker; Rob Cole Publisher: Pearson Business Publication Date: 02-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Brilliant Project Management (Revised Edition) Projects - and Project managers - are failing at an alarming rate. In the IT industry only 24% of projects succeed according to the Government Office of Commerce. Railtrack and the upgrade of the NHS are high profile examples of large project failures. And there are plenty of low-profile examples available too - as any viewer of Channel 4s Property Ladder programme will confirm. In an ever growing market, Brilliant Project Management stands out from the crowd. This revised edition is part of the high profile Brilliant series and the first edition...
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56. |  The Project Manager, 2nd Edition By: Richard Newton Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 27-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Project Manager, 2nd Edition
[shows what] what really makes projects and project managers successful. A must read for everyone interested in understanding what levers to pull to improve their delivery capability. Perry Childs, Director, Childs Consulting. 'A simply written and well structured book that is a crucial support for both experienced project / programme managers and people new to the project management environment. Paul Gilhooley, Project Director, Openreach (a BT Group business) ' If you are serious about your project management career, put down your PRINCE2 manual and read this ' Vince...
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57. |  By: Justin Emond; Chris Steins Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Web Project Management
Pro Web Project Management is a collection of hard-won lessons the authors have learned managing modern web projects with small and medium budgets in a consulting environment. This isn’t a book about project management theory. Pro Web Project Management tells how to create real deliverables, get answers from indecisive clients, manage wayward programmers, and use checklists to wow clients. This book is made up of real examples, real lessons, real documents, and real tips woven together into a step-by-step walkthrough of a project's life cycle.
Pro Web Project Management is written for...
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58. |  By: Tim Fields Publisher: Focal Press Publication Date: 02-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 28-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Distributed Game Development
Take control of your global game development team and make successful AAA game titles using the ‘Distributed Development’ model. Game industry veteran Tim Fields teaches you how to evaluate game deals, how to staff teams for highly distributed game development, and how to maintain challenging relationships in order to get great games to market. This book is filled with interviews with a broad spectrum of industry experts from top game publishers and business owners in the US and UK. A supplementary web site provides interviews from the book, a forum where developers and publishers can...
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59. |  No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success By: Bart Gerardi Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 05-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 22-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success
No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success is a book for project managers who want or need to be more effective. Having a project crash and burn is never a great situation, author Bart Gerardi explains, but it's not a career buster—unless the failure appears on the short list of recurring, avoidable problems that can and will pop up during any project. If your project fails due to a lack of planning, for example, expect a trip to the woodshed. Why? Your "unexpected problem" was actually both predictable and avoidable.
This book is an exploration of the...
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60. |  Project Management for IT-Related Projects By: Bob Hughes; Roger Ireland; Brian West; Norman Smith; David I. Shepherd Publisher: British Informatics Society Limited Publication Date: 01-SEP-2004 Insert Date: 16-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management for IT-Related Projects
The ISEB Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management is designed for those managing the development and implementation of information systems and other IT projects. This is the only textbook tailored specifically to match the ISEB syllabus – so the user can be confident of using exactly the right materials.
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