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La conduite d'une démarche de changement est un exercice difficile. Souvent, elle dure plus longtemps que prévu, coûte plus cher que prévu et est parfois même abandonnée pour revenir vite à l'état initial. Les bonnes intentions et l'engagement des décideurs, la pertinence du but recherché ne sont pas des garanties de succès. Il ne suffit pas d'expliquer que le changement proposé est bon, intelligent, utile, stratégique. Le changement est aussi question de méthode et d'outils.

Niemand könnte ein Praxisbuch schreiben, das anschaulicher erklärt, welche großen Herausforderungen Unternehmen mit Scrum bewältigen können, als die Erfinder der Methode selbst. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus Branchen, die disruptiven Veränderungen ausgesetzt sind - wie Bosch, Saab oder der Ölförderer Schlumberger - verdeutlicht Sutherland die positive Kraft von Scrum. Denn diesen Unternehmen ist es gelungen, ihre Leistungsfähigkeit zu erhöhen, bessere Zahlen zu schreiben und ihre Zukunft selbst zu gestalten.

When a company can get its best ideas to market faster, its leaders can be confident that their most important strategic decisions will be executed faithfully, and their visions for the company’s future will be realized. They are also able to be agile in response to market changes, pursue new opportunities, and achieve ambitious plans for growth.

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Each chapter builds on common terms and transformational strategies. The aim is to turn you into a savvy leader who is respected and can offer your client or business challenge the confidence to deliver. Let us also not forget that there are lots of real-world examples of proof that this approach will work.

¿Cuántas veces has fracasado en algo y has sentido una profunda vergüenza? ¿Eres de los que cree que es mejor aprender de los errores ajenos y no de los tuyos? Soy Riccardo Braccaioli, y me gustaría contarte mi experiencia más dura como empresario, la quiebra de mi empresa familiar. El fracaso de los sueños, de las ambiciones, del trabajo de una vida y de mi familia. Quince años de montaña rusa donde hubo éxitos y derrotas.

Knowledge Café is a process for creating, exchanging, and optimizing knowledge, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.

Workplace stress is not the weakness of individuals; it's caused by systemic problems. Armed with the insights in this book, you can identify, analyze, and systematically reduce the factors that lead to poor health, low productivity, and personal burnout. This book gives you a framework for understanding stress, and a vocabulary to make it easier to discuss it among colleagues. Stress can be fixed; find out how.

The Outcome Assurance™ Framework is the missing addendum to the PMBOK® Guide — the piece that project leaders, owners, and executives have been searching for. Where the PMBOK® Guide provides process guidance, Outcome Assurance™ provides leadership direction, governance alignment, and system integration to ensure projects do more than finish - they succeed.

Todo gran proyecto -ya sea crear una nueva tecnología, lanzar un modelo de zapatillas o abrir una cafetería de barrio- requiere una gran inversión para poder ponerlo en marcha. Sin embargo, la mayoría de los proyectos fracasan. Muchos equipos desperdician tiempo, dinero y oportunidades porque siguen la estrategia equivocada y pierden de vista lo más importante: los clientes.

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In today’s dynamic business environment, even the most ambitious strategies can falter without one critical element: alignment and execution anchored to a compelling vision and purpose. "Align & Execute" delivers a practical roadmap for business leaders striving to bridge the gap between vision and execution to achieve sustainable success.

You are a Scrum Master and you are joining an existing team. There is a problem, though. The Product Owner is unhappy. There is a high priority item on the Product Backlog that the developers are refusing to add to their Sprint. They say that Scrum gives them the right to choose the work they do, and they claim the so called "high priority" item is not very important at all.

You are on a Scrum Team with a problem. You need some changes to the data base behind the application you are creating, but the tables are controlled by another team, they are busy with their own priorities and do not want to help. What should you do? This case and the others in the series come from the real-world experiences of a group of Scrum professionals who meet regularly to discuss the Scrum Framework and how to apply it to actual situations they have encountered.

You are an Agile Coach and you are being called in to fix a problem with project ownership. There is a team of developers who look good on paper but who are not performing up to expectations. They do not seem to care very much about the work they are doing. You have been asked to figure out what is wrong and to fix it. What should you do?

You are a Scrum Master and your team has a problem. Their work depends on another team to enhance the back end of the application but they are not being very helpful. Your team tells you that the other team's performance is an "impediment" and that you must go whip the other team into shape. What should you do?

You are an Agile Coach and your client has asked you a question. He is an engineering manager and the company has just announced a "work from home" policy. Developers may now work from home instead of coming to the office. The Engineering Manager has asked you if there are any "Agile Metrics" he can use to make sure his developers stay busy and are not being lazy. He is investigating software to record when people log in and log out, and count their keystrokes in between. What should you tell him to do?

In Project Management for You, Cesar unlocks these tested and proven principles that allow big corporations like Apple and Google to make detailed promises of new products and services to their customer base months in advance and still deliver it 100 percent of the time. Easy to understand, skipping the corporate lingo, and using powerful and colorful stories, Cesar will take you step by step through the stages of bringing an idea to reality.

Do you want to discover the must-have project management hacks to achieve more success and master every area of your life? If you’ve ever experienced project failure at home, work or even with your hobbies, you’re not alone. The truth is, project management isn’t easy. And it’s important to remember that this is not your fault! But becoming a successful project manager doesn’t happen by luck...you have to take action. And that’s how Project Management for Beginners will empower you.

Do you want to manage projects more effectively? Do you want to increase your team’s productivity, collaboration, and deliver business value sooner? Scrum is the leading Agile methodology used by Fortune 500 companies and is transforming businesses everywhere. In this ever-changing world of customer expectations and new technologies, businesses need to be Agile to get ahead and stay there. With Scrum, you can be ready to adapt to the inevitable change.