Project Management/Tool Selection
Successful SAP R3 Implementation: Practical Management of ERP Projects
This book provides the necessary knowledge and tools to facilitate the successful implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning package, such as SAP R/3, Baan or PeopleSoft. Based on a case study of a large SAP R/3 implementation, it presents a wealth of practical advice, delivering essential factors for successful project management, along with many practical tools and accelerators.
Project Management with SAP R/3
This book introduces the practical and theoretical aspects of project management and project control, explaining the terminology and procedures of project management and the SAP R/3 system.
Data Warehouse Project Management
Data warehouse development projects present a unique set of management challenges that can confound even the most experienced project manager. Data Warehouse Project Management addresses these challenges and provides a comprehensive roadmap to managing every aspect of data warehouse design, development, and implementation. Drawing on their extensive experience in the field, Sid Adelman and Larissa Moss point to critical success factors, reveal the many pitfalls to watch out for, and offer proven solutions that will enable you to put a successful data warehouse project into place.
Lean Performance ERP Project Management: Implementing the Virtual Supply Chain
Business consultant Carroll outlines his methodology for "lean implementation" that starts with a company's existing work flows and develops process-performance improvements and measurements, determining what work must be completed in order to determine how best to do the work. Carroll notes that the reference is intended primarily for CEOs, COOS, and other business managers rather than IT professionals; "As fond of information and other technologies as I am," he writes, "I believe that the more complex and, therefore, more valuable (and costly) elements of business processes are tasks that are people-based." While the reference emphasizes manufacturing, the broader concepts apply to business processes regardless of service or industry.
SAP Consulting and Project Management
Managing a full cycle implementation of SAP R/3 requires more than just technical know-how. It takes careful project planning, organizing, optimum functional and technical configuration and system testing, which can be a complex process. Using the tools found inside this practical guidebook, you'll be able to successfully navigate through the critical stages of a project, and complete the job on time and within budgetary constraints. Worksheets, presentations and templates found both in the book and on the CD-ROM give tips on custom development, configuration, performance tuning, self and team management, and can help you keep tabs on schedules and monitor progress of the project. For SAP consultants, project managers or anyone wanting insight on how to successfully manage a SAP implementation project, this is the most significant and authoritative book available.
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: 2000 Edition
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R)) is an inclusive term that describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. The PMBOK(R) Guide identifies and describes the subset of principles and practices within the PMBOK(R) that are generally accepted and applicable to most projects most of the time. The guide also provides a common lexicon for talking about project management. Project management is a relatively young profession, and while there is substantial commonality around what is done, there is relatively little commonality in the terms used. An extensive glossary further aids in standardizing definitions of the most important concepts, terms, and phrases.
Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management with Microsoft Project 2000
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2000 provides an easy to use source of answers for all your questions regarding project management fundamentals and the industry's leading project management tool. It is for anyone who is just starting to use or is thinking of using Microsoft Project. Topics include integration between Project data and other applications, Project analysis, using Project in workgroups, tracking costs, and Web Integration.
Project Management: Best Practices for IT Professionals
Guidebook teaching the fundamentals of project management, from keeping up with changing market conditions, to handling problems and managing risks in IT. A resource for professional project managers at any level of experience.
PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide
The book you need to prepare for the PMP exam. Full coverage of every exam objective with clear explanations and practical insights from an expert project manager. CD-ROM included.
The Project Manager's Desk Reference
Move step-by-step through proven solutions guaranteed to keep all your projects on track. The Project ManagerAEs Desk Reference, Second Edition, by James P. Lewis, gives you a template for managing projects of any size from start to finish, a 16-step process for planning, monitoring, and controlling any project. As you explore specific situations taken from today's fast-moving business environment, the author's easy-to- understand approach shows you how to confidently put together a project plan using Work Breakdown Structures, PERT, CPM, and Gantt schedules. You learn how to conduct risk analysis, and assemble and manage a problem-solving team to eliminate potential stumbling blocks and complete the project on time and within budget. In the second edition of this hands-on toolbox, you get updated examples, illustrations and figures, checklists for every stage, plus lists of associations and powerful websites.
The Accidental Project Manager: Surviving the Transition from Techie to Manager
You’ve just been asked to manage a software development project. Where do you begin? In The Accidental Project Manager, seasoned guide Patricia Ensworth calmly walks you through every aspect and challenge of this new and exciting experience. This "cheat sheet" provides you with practical advice and critical information you need to manage successful software projects.
Software Project Management in Practice
Aimed at developers and IT managers alike, Software Project Management in Practice offers an invaluable guide to using lightweight software processes in real projects. Filled with sample documents, this book can benefit any organization seeking to improve the ways it manages software.
Visualizing Project Management: A Model for Business and Technical Success
Three major figures in project management draw upon decades of experience to bring you the most reliable, authoritative, and practical resource available for mastering the tools and techniques of project management.
Leading a Software Development Team: A Developer's Guide to Successfully Leading People and Projects
The position of team leader is becoming increasingly recognized as crucial to the success of any software development project -- but how do you actually do it? This book is written by a practitioner who has faced the most common and difficult issues on a day-to-day basis. It takes the form of questions that you will inevitably find yourself asking, followed by practical answers that you can immediately apply in your own situation. This book gives sound, tried and tested advice on how to overcome problems and offers practical tips and techniques on how to lead other people, make good decisions and get your project out on time.
Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development
Reprints 45 essays originally published in the Management Forum of Software Development magazine. The authors, who are working managers and consultants in the software industry, discuss dealing with difficult people, managing from the bottom-up, coping with project failure, sustaining teamwork, and building software to throw away.
Earned Value Project Management (Second Edition)
"Earned value" is a project management technique that is emerging as a valuable tool in the management of all projects, including and, in particular, software projects. In its most simple form, earned value equates to fundamental project management.
Project and Program Risk Management: A Guide to Managing Project Risks and Opportunities
Brevity and ease of reference make this handbook a useful introduction to risk in the project or program environment. The book provides a simplified understanding of the nature of project risk and opportunity, and a systematic approach to risk reduction. You’ll get useful insights into the process of project risk management whether you’re working on a small administrative project, a large capital works project, or anything in between. Concepts, tools, and techniques covered include: risk identification, risk assessment goals and methodology, computer applications, risk response and documentation, management of contingency allowances, managing risks of the project’s environment, and dealing with risks in contracts.
Mentoring Object Technology Projects
During his workshops and consultations Due noticed that few project managers understood the basics of the object-oriented approach to programming. To redress the deficiency, he describes the entire life cycle of a software development program using it. His treatment might also interest other members of a development team, and could serve as an auxiliary text for a formal course.
The CRM Project Management Handbook: Building Realistic Expectations and Managing Risk
Once you have bought into the concept of customer relationship management (CRM), how do you separate the practical and useful from the pie-in-the-sky to plan, scope and implement a project that delivers tangible results? With CRM project failure rates running as high as 80 per cent, anyone unable to answer this question stands every chance of becoming yet another accident statistic. Subjects covered include: Whether you should even be launching a project; Building a realistic foundation for CRM; Establishing a realistic budget; Ensuring commitment from both management and users; Coping with organizational change and company politics; Managing international CRM projects while recognizing local realities.
Process Management: Why Project Management Fails in Complex Decision Making Processes
The PMI Compendium of Project Management Practices
As a project management professional, you know the importance of being organized and thorough. That’s why you’ll appreciate the comprehensive set of reference documents and forms the Project Management Institute (PMI®) has compiled in this CD-ROM. This handy resource helps you identify key practices that may be critical to the management of your projects, shown logically within the context of the Project Management Process Groups.
Project Management
This book explores the project management process from initial appraisal to closedown - using methods that range from simple charts to powerful computer systems. The relevant techniques can be applied with profit whether the project is worth $1,000 or $1,000,000. Illustrations and examples help explain every aspect of project management in detail.
Project Management ToolBox
Provides a rare look at the situational framework used in building a project management toolbox. Includes real-world examples of toolboxes used in a variety of project situations. Bridges the gap between theoretical and applied project management.
Q & As for the PMBOK Guide, 2000 Edition
Do you want to learn more about project management? This handy book will help you do just that. It offers 200 multiple choice questions covering the key themes and concepts of the project management framework and the nine project management knowledge areas of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)–2000 Edition, the Project Management Institute’s global standard. Once you have "tested" yourself, check the end of this book for the answers. Each answer references the appropriate page number (s) of the PMBOK® Guide–2000 Edition and provides relevant quotations from it, so you can enhance the breadth and depth of your knowledge in that area. Whether you are a seasoned professional, a novice, a student, or an instructor of project management, you will appreciate Q & As for the PMBOK® Guide–2000 Edition. It is a great way to learn more about a complex and fascinating profession that grows in popularity every day.
Project Management JumpStart
Solid project management skills are in especially high demand today as an increasing number of companies have refocused their attention on the fundamentals of project management, demanding more from their project managers than ever before. If you are considering a career in project management or simply wish to expand your understanding of general project management principles, this book is for you. An all new addition to the popular and proven JumpStart series, this title offers simple, tangible explanations to clarify a complicated topic. Perhaps this book will even serve as a starting point for you to pursue advanced project management certifications such as PMP. If so, Project Management JumpStart may prove to be the perfect precursor to Sybex's best-selling PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide (ISBN: 0782141064).
Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project
There's a good reason project risk management is one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (TM). Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. It's no wonder that project managers are increasingly focusing their attention on risk identification. Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a practical guide to minimizing the possibility of failure in critical projects. The book takes readers step by step through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process. Relevant figures and diagrams support the text and illustrate key scenarios. At the end of each chapter is an analysis of how the principles just discussed applied to a supreme example of what many once considered a truly impossible project: the building of the Panama Canal.
Project Management: A Managerial Approach
Today's organizations are moving toward the use of teams and groups to accomplish specific tasks more rapidly and at less cost. For the past 10 years this book has set the standard for establishing project management principles. This edition provides guidelines and tools to help managers of projects succeed. Emphasis is placed on project/team management techniques, rather than general management techniques. Critical aspects of project management are covered in detail, including available software packages, negotiation, project manager selection and project auditing and terminating.
The Relationship Manager: The Next Generation of Project Management
PMP Certification For Dummies
The know-how people need to pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam, the world's most recognized professional project management credential. Quick Assessment questions at the beginning and Prep Tests at the end of each chapter enhance the reader's understanding of the material. Shows how to spot trick questions designed to challenge critical thinking skills. Explains how to interpret questions and offers tips for budgeting valuable test-taking time. CD-ROM contains practice exams, hundreds of sample questions, timed and untimed versions of the test, and the ability to save test results to measure progress.
Beyond Project Management: New Perspectives on the Temporary-Permanent Dilemma
Projects abound in contemporary society. Projects are found in organizations, industries, and inter-organizational settings with long traditions of project work, as well as in areas where more bureaucratic and seemingly permanent and routinized organizations used to dominate. While many scholarly writings have just echoed practical management problems, this volume broadens the approach to projects. First, the contributions made expand the scope from single projects to projects in their corporate and social contexts. Second, they relate projects to theoretical insights gained in the organizational science at large. Third, they display the multitude of empirical settings where projects are used today. The book gives new insights into how projects contribute to and relate to long term and wider developments in organizations, industries, and society. To put it simply, this book goes Beyond Project Management.
Connecting the Dots: Aligning Projects with Objectives in Unpredictable Times
As companies look for ways to unlock shareholder value, restore investor confidence, and adapt to uncertainty, the project portfolio is a smart place to look. Why? Because companies' project initiatives have grown faster than their ability to manage them-affecting the return on trillions of investment dollars while failing to prepare companies for today's unpredictable environment. Connecting the Dots argues that the portfolio is a company's future currency-the truest measure of organizational intent. And the best way to leverage this currency is through greater alignment.
IT Project Management Handbook
SQL Server Security: What DBAs and Programmers Need to Know
SQL Server Security: What DBAs and Programmers Need to Know is a comprehensive look at securing SQL Server 2000. Author K. Brian Kelley walks you through the basics of security and how it applies to an SQL Server installation. The focus of the book then shifts to the internal mechanisms SQL Server uses to protect data and audit access. Discussion of external security and vulnerabilities due to applications and the operating system as well as network vulnerabilities with respect to the transmission of login information, and unsecured data streams is included. Kelley also reviews several third-party tools that can assist in auditing, securing, and reporting on SQL Server.
The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence
This book provides executives, managers and educators with a comprehensive implementation plan for employing enterprise-wide Lean. Using the Lean Extended Enterprise Reference Model (LEERM), it demonstrates that by deploying the right methodologies and technologies to the right situation you can achieve breakthroughs in performance.
Lean Manufacturing Implementation: A Complete Execution Manual for Any Size Manufacturer
The proven, objective, standardized, and complete "how to" sequential series of progressive steps to Lean manufacturing implementation illustrated in this manual are easy to understand and use to effect factory transformation to lean without the aid of a consultant. It also provides a toolbox of techniques for problem - solving, continuous improvement, and for operating a Lean manufacturing facility on a day-to-day basis after the initial line design is completed
IT Manager's Handbook, Second Edition: Getting Your New Job Done
Many technical professionals are tossed into their new position of
managing an IT department without enough training or experience let
alone a clear idea of what is expected of them. Other technicians are
trying to decide if they should join the ranks of management, and want
the real facts about managing and managing other technical pros before
they decide.
To
compound the issue, most companies have become highly dependent on
their IT departments for their day-to-day business operations often
including revenue generation so the tasks are critical and the learning
curve is steep.
The IT Managers Handbook, 2nd edition provides
essential information needed to manage the new responsibilities thrust
on you (or the ones you would like to have): vital tasks such as
creating budgets, evaluating technologies, administering compliance,
and managing staff.
Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results
This book includes real-life examples from over 70 respected organizations,
small and large, representing a multitude of industries using stories to drive
results. Leaders from organizations such as Microsoft, Lands' End, Verizon, U.S.
Air Force, and World Vision demonstrate the strong positive influence stories
can have. No abstract theories or platitudes are conveyed here. The book spells
out how Kevin Roberts, CEO worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, achieved
sustained sales growth after several mergers and downsizings caused the
organization to fall on hard times. It also shows how Erik Shaw, president and
CEO of FivePoint Federal Credit Union, overcame resistance to an organizational
name change, resulting in membership growth exceeding the national average.
Physical Database Design
Physical Database Design: the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more.
The rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability, and DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system performance and administration.
Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how physical structures of databases affect performance and includes specific examples, guidelines, and best and worst practices for a variety of DBMSs and configurations. Something as simple as improving the table index design has a profound impact on performance. Every form of relational database, such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Enterprise Resource Management (ERP), Data Mining (DM), or Management Resource Planning (MRP), can be improved using these methods.
All Your Money Won't Another Minute Buy
This book covers the many reasons why time tracking, preferably through a software as a service platform, is a must for companies of all sizes. It discusses the benefits available through effective key performance indicators and project management, payroll and billing practices, and federal regulation compliance, as well as guides the reader through the buying process. It also discusses numerous pertinent technological advances such as SOA, telecom and the Internet, and Web2.0.
Reinventing Project Management
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth & Innovation
Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding while operations is shrinking.. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, most projects fail—largely because conventional project management concepts cannot adapt to a dynamic business environment. Moreover, top managers neglect their company's project activity, and line managers treat all their projects alike—as part of operations.
Based on an unprecedented study of more than 600 projects in a variety of businesses and organizations across the globe, Reinventing Project Management provides a new and highly adaptive model for planning and managing projects to achieve superior business results.
Implementing a Data Warehouse: A Methodology that Worked
The purpose of this book is to document the methodology and chronology of work activity used to successfully implement a data warehouse. Each step of the methodology is presented in the book, often using actual working documents as examples. The book contains lessons learned (both good and bad) as well as measures of success for each step. Again, the purpose of this book is to provide actual examples of processes, work papers, technical documentation, pitfalls and measures of success that led to a successful working data warehouse. This is not "The BEST and ONLY Book" for implementing a data warehouse and associated BI, but if a reader wants to see a methodology that worked - this book will provide that view.
Seven Steps to Strategy Execution
Seven Steps to Strategy Execution gives organizations a logical framework to help them communicate strategy to the people and processes that make it a reality. And it further builds organizational capability by continually measuring performance against the organization's selected strategy performance metrics.
The collaborative work of J. Kent Crawford, founder and CEO of PM Solutions, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, editor-in-chief of the CBP, and Jim Pennypacker, director of the CBP, "Seven Steps to Strategy Execution" is a 316-page paperback offering practical advice for organizations struggling to effectively execute their corporate strategies. The book introduces an approach called Strategy Performance Management (SPM), which advocates the integration of governance and performance management in seven key areas: Strategy Management, Project Portfolio Management, Program and Project Management, Information Technology, Structure, Cultureand People.
