What Keeps Project Managers from Managing Their Projects

Speed-to-market is the most critical factor determining the success of new products. James Lewis and Louis Wong, one of todays most accomplished project management author teams, discuss often-overlooked principles that can make the difference in the never-ending race to be first and best. They give project managers, engineers, and top-level decision makers the needed tools and techniques to:

• Establish a solid and well-grounded vision
• Turn that vision into an actionable road map
• Implement platforms to support new processes

• Ranking value and benefits
• Determining the size of the portfolio pipeline
• Assessing the impact of uncertainty on projects and portfolios
• Understanding the benefit and risk relationship
• Establishing a portfolio governance capability
• Managing the portfolio to maximize benefits
• Implementing PPM

The bestselling project management text for students and professionals-now updated and expanded

This Eleventh Edition of the bestselling "bible" of project management maintains the streamlined approach of the prior editions and moves the content even closer to PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). New content has been added to this edition on measuring project management ROI, value to the organization and to customers, and much more. The capstone "super" case on the "Iridium Project" has been maintained, covering all aspects of project management. Increased use of sidebars throughout the book helps further align it with the PMBOK and the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam.

This new edition features significant expansion, including more than three dozen entirely new sections and updates on process supporting; types of project closure; project sponsorship; and culture, teamwork, and trust. This comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of project management:

• Offers new sections on added value, business intelligence, project governance, and much more
• Provides twenty-five case studies covering a variety of industries, almost all of which are real-world situations drawn from the author's practice
• Includes 400 discussion questions and more than 125 multiple-choice questions
• Serves as an excellent study guide for the PMP Certification Exam

When you touch your spouse’s deepest need, something good almost always happens!

Based on three decades of counseling and research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs leads couples through the intricacies of a marriage built on Love and Respect.  He explores the differences in men and women and how a husband’s need for respect can be balanced by a wife’s need for love.  When these needs are mutually recognized and made a priority, a fulfilling and meaningful marriage will be the inevitable result.

Love and Respect for a Lifetime makes the ideal gift:

• It’s all color, photo-filled design makes it inviting for couples to look at together.
• It is a compilation of Dr. Eggerichs best Love & Respect tips: a quick and easy read that proves enticing to a spouse that might be apprehensive of working through an entire study or book.
• It’s engaging message validates the core needs of each spouse and gives a message of hope, encouragement and practical time-tested solutions for every marriage rather than focusing on placing blame or judging.
• It’s ideal as a gift for dating or engaged couples, as well as a wedding or anniversary gift.  It’s elegant design invites the recipients to open, read it together and leave out as a display for others to take a closer look at what it means to love her and to respect him.

The EZ Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is a page-by-page "translation" of the original Alcoholics Anonymous published by AA founder Bill Wilson in the 1930s. It is intended to carry the AA message to modern readers who find the original Big Book hard to digest for any reason. The language is gender-neutral and references to spirituality are more inclusive.

The book shows you how to:

Quit drinking

Find a personal Higher Power

Livei n the now

Face problems fearlessly

Discover the real "you"

Make great friends in AA

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The anonymous author of this work has taken a bold step by updating the language of the original Big Book which has barely changed since its introduction in 1939. -John Elm PhD AA member

Finally a version of the 'Big Book has arrived that's as inclusive as the program itself. The language does not assume the reader is male or Christian. -Jules Cardello LMSW Social Worker

The simple direct writing makes the message of the Big Book much easier to understand without any loss of meaning. -Anonymous AA Member

"If the purpose is to create one of the best books on requirements yet written, the authors have succeeded."

—Capers Jones

It is widely recognized that incorrect requirements account for up to 60 percent of errors in software products, and yet the majority of software development organizations do not have a formal requirements process. Many organizations appear willing to spend huge amounts on fixing and altering poorly specified software, but seem unwilling to invest a much smaller amount to get the requirements right in the first place.

Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition, sets out an industry-proven process for gathering and verifying requirements with an eye toward today's agile development environments. In this total update of the bestselling guide, the authors show how to discover precisely what the customer wants and needs while doing the minimum requirements work according to the project's level of agility.

Features include

• The Volere requirements process—completely specified, and revised for compatibility with agile environments

• A specification template that can be used as the basis for your own requirements specifications

• New agility ratings that help you funnel your efforts into only the requirements work needed for your particular development environment and project

• How to make requirements testable using fit criteria

• Iterative requirements gathering leading to faster delivery to the client

• Checklists to help identify stakeholders, users, nonfunctional requirements, and more

• Details on gathering and implementing requirements for iterative releases

• An expanded project sociology section for help with identifying and communicating with stakeholders

• Strategies for exploiting use cases to determine the best product to build

• Methods for reusing requirements and requirements patterns

• Examples showing how the techniques and templates are applied in real-world situations

In The Business Analyst/Project Manager, author Robert Wysocki draws on his forty-five years of professional experience as a PM/BA to shed light on the similarities and differences of the roles and responsibilities of these two positions, the need for greater collaboration, and how to staff a project with one or both of these professionals.

• Examines the boundaries and interactions between the BA and the PM
• Looks at how to identify the skill sets needed to make the project a success
• The typical relationship of the BA and PM across the project management life cycle
• Making the best configuration of leadership assignments based on project characteristics
• Where the responsibilities of the BA leave off and the PM's begins and where the two have collaborative responsibilities
• How to use a PM/BA to enhance project performance
• How to foster a "dual career path" for PM/BAs development