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This audiobook will give you an overview of Agile methodologies and how you can use them to speed up development and drive customer satisfaction. Get this audiobook now to learn more about Agile and Scrum!

In this helpful how-to, author Tom Kendrick reveals field-proven principles for navigating high-pressure situations, so you can overcome any obstacle. Even with a terrific project management program in place, problems can arise to derail your team’s hard work. This book explores a wide range...

Dive into the essence of Agile methodologies with "Agile Manifesto: Unpacking the Agile Manifesto for Modern Development." This comprehensive guide explores each of the core values and principles declared in the Agile Manifesto, providing a deep and actionable understanding tailored for today's dynamic development environments.

If you want to develop your skills in project management and human resource management, then pay attention...Two manuscripts in one audiobook: Project Management and Human Resource Management. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Project management: Before you start, Agile and Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, discover amazing recruitment and onboarding strategies for your company, learn the best approach for your human resource management, find out how you can enhance your relationship with your employees to maximize productivity, and much more.

The ability to relentlessly identify and mitigate risk. That is the key to high-performance project teams. This audiobook focuses on the fundamentals: simple structures and practices, applied with rigor. These are the tools you need to avoid the late changes that kill project schedules. Underlying all of them are four principles: accountability, transparency, integrity, and commitment. Risk up Front is designed to turn these principles into practice.

In this book, you will learn about the foundational concepts of Six Sigma, including the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) framework, statistical tools for data analysis, and various process improvement methodologies. You'll explore key Six Sigma tools such as control charts, Pareto analysis, root cause analysis, process mapping, and many more. These tools will help you identify inefficiencies, streamline operations, and create sustainable improvements in any organization, no matter the industry.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are indispensable for measuring business, but if they don’t serve a larger mission, it’s easy to lose sight of why you’re measuring in the first place. Tracking the dynamic relationship between mission and measurement, this audiobook is logical, approachable, and filled with relatable anecdotes.

This audiobook is your complete guide to modern Agile product and project management—designed for leaders, practitioners, and students who want to master how products are conceived, built, and scaled in the era of AI. Drawing on real-world case studies from startups to Silicon Valley tech giants, it explains not only what Agile is, but how it drives business value, accelerates delivery, and enables innovation powered by generative AI and intelligent agents.

Un livre audio culte dans le monde des entrepreneurs! En appliquant les grands principes du lean management au développement de nouveaux produits, Eric Ries a mis au point une méthode qui change radicalement la donne pour tous ceux qui souhaitent créer une entreprise ou développer un nouveau projet: le Lean Startup. Cette approche révolutionnaire permet en effet d'adapter constamment son offre mais aussi son entreprise aux évolutions du marché, en suivant le principe de l'innovation continue.

If you are preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam and would like to pass it on your first try, you will need to master the test questions and answers included in this book.

Scrum—an organizing approach that exposes work progress and quality—is used all over the place in software development, but it's not just for coders. Scrum For Dummies shows you how scrum can improve performance regardless of your industry or project. You can even use scrum to get tangible results in your personal projects—prepare for retirement, organize travel, and much more. Plan goals, releases, and sprints for all aspects of business and life. With Dummies, you'll learn how to work flexibility and collaboration into anything you're doing.

This is for those who wish to continue the journey we started in part 1. Now we are going to learn how to use the knowledge to streamline product development and manufacturing processes. The approach is simple and repeatable. We know that the most streamlined processes are the ones that comply with the behavioral model that we uncovered in part 1. We simply compare real implementations to the model, look for the gaps, and when we find gaps, we fix them. This is a repeatable approach for all products and everywhere within the product development process.

The Influential Product Manager teaches product managers how to behave at each stage of the product life cycle to achieve the best outcome for the customer. Product managers are under pressure to drive spectacular results, often without wielding much direct power or authority. If you don’t know how to influence people at all levels of the organization, how will you create the best possible product?

What every change leader needs to know. We are in a crisis! Eighty-five percent of the change initiatives in your organisation could be worthless...Throwing money at an unknown result. They aren't just accepting ambiguity; they are driving off a cliff, blindfolded, and hoping the car flies. But what if there was a better approach? Something a little...Simpler?...Easier? Valuable Change is a change leader's complete handbook to setting up, driving, and realising truly valuable change.

Has Kanban become the Kan-Bane of your organization? Are you still lost in the woods when it comes to Kanban? Is WIP driving you crazy? Are you ready to banish all these problems out of existence? In this book bundle, we present to you Gary Metcalfe's best-selling series Kanban. All the way from learning what Kanban actually is to ABC classification to learning Kanban implementation in different environments, this audiobook will walk you all the way from A to Z!

Managing complex projects can stretch you to the limits. But with a book full of experts coaching you each step of the way, you'll never be baffled, blocked, or misdirected again. Packed with essays and insights from the field's top professionals, The AMA Handbook of Project Management is the resource professionals and students rely on for its practical guidance and big picture overview of the entire field. Whether you need advice keeping projects on track or help preparing for certification, this new edition explains every principle, process, and development.

For over 20 years, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects has been a staple for upper managers who want to help projects succeed. This new edition includes case studies from companies that have successfully applied the approach.

This new edition of a classic, best-selling guide addresses the soft project management skills that are so essential to successful project, program, and portfolio management. Mastering leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management, and organizational politics has always been key to project manager success. This book demonstrates the why and how of creatively applying soft project management skills in these areas and shows how to develop, adjust, and hone these skills given the forces and trends in today’s business world.

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up provides refreshingly practical and candid insight into the best practices and techniques that project managers have successfully used for decades to manage a wide variety of senior-level stakeholders - ranging from perfectly competent and pleasant to downright dysfunctional and inept. While managing up is an incredibly valuable skill for virtually any type of boss (not just the difficult ones), the audiobook includes recommendations for managing six particularly challenging - and common - types of senior leaders.

Anyone can be a leader. You don't have to be a CEO or work in a management position to have influence. Your Leadership Moment provides practical tools, techniques and inspiration to discover your leadership potential. It combines personal and real-world anecdotes with a framework for leadership that can help anyone learn to lead.