Project Management Books

Covering metrics, reporting systems, and the 32 criteria of successful EVMS, this guide is the go-to choice for both corporate and government professionals.

By Charlene S. Budd, Charles I. Budd

No matter which project management framework you are using, effective planning is crucial for success. This publication leads you through each stage of the planning process: defining, designing, developing and delivery, highlighting the practical steps for each.

By Rod Sowden

A helpful compendium of ready-made templates for managing every project in alignment with the latest PMBOK(r) Guide, 7th ed.

By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio

Lavishly illustrated with more than 40 figures and tables, this book effortlessly provides both theory and practical tools for thinking and working strategically throughout the project process, including mastering scope challenges and evaluating project success.

By Mihály Görög

Packed with useful forms and charts, this practical, user-friendly guide gives you a complete understanding of what it takes to successfully finish a project, and offers valuable tools to help you communicate, negotiate, listen, and lead.

By James Taylor

Using a sample project case study throughout, this concise study guide presents all the fundamental knowledge, concepts, exercises, practice questions, and simulated exams needed to prepare for and successfully pass the CAPM exam on your first try.

By Diane Altwies, Frank Reynolds, Janice Preston

This concise study guide presents all the fundamental knowledge, concepts, exercises, practice questions, and simulated exams needed to prepare for and successfully pass the CAPM exam on your first try.

By Diane Altwies

Used in conjunction with the PMI PMBOK(r) Guide, Fifth Edition, this guide presents all the fundamental knowledge, concepts, exercises, and practice exam questions a project manager needs to prepare for and successfully pass the PMP exam on the first try.

By Diane Altwies, Janice Preston

Featuring a case study that runs throughout with exercises and suggested solutions, this completely updated study guide presents all the fundamental knowledge, concepts, and practice exam questions a project manager needs to prepare for and successfully pass the PMP Exam on the first try.

By Diane Altwies, Janice Preston

Featuring a case study that runs throughout with exercises and suggested solutions, this completely updated study guide presents all the fundamental knowledge, concepts, and practice exam questions a project manager needs to prepare for and successfully pass the PMP Exam on the first try.

By Diane Buckley-Altwies, Diane White

This in-depth guide describes how to build high-performance virtual project teams, shows how to reduce the cost of virtual teams and includes tools and techniques for assessing the maturity of project teams.

By Ginger Levin, Parviz F. Rad

Detailing six gears that must work in unison to drive speed and predictability within an organization, this book presents a proven approach that has enabled large, medium, and even small organizations to consistently complete projects faster, within original scope and budget.

By Gerald I. Kendall, Kathleen M. Austin

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By GTS Learning

Equipped with processes, methods and tools that will enable a project manager to handle more complex projects, this guide clearly explains key skills you will need to ensure the successful delivery of your project.

By Alan D. Orr

Featuring case studies of best practices that have worked in world-class corporations, this strategic guide addresses project risk management, project portfolio management, The Project Office, project management multinational cultures, and more.

By Harold Kerzner

This comprehensive book covers the strategy, tactics, and processes needed for successful project portfolio management. The author delineates four processes that get a PMO off the ground much faster, driving bottom-line value almost immediately.

By Gerald I. Kendall, Steven C. Rollins

Written for those who are involved with the developments in project management, this book offers the kind of structured information, new approaches and novel perspectives that will inform their thinking and their practice and improve their decisions.

By Darren Dalcher (ed)

Exploring market research, determining payment models and reporting guidelines, recruiting affiliates, crafting appropriate communications, and much more, this guide features a detailed, real-world, task-based approach to developing, launching, and managing a successful affiliate marketing program.

By Evgenii "Geno" Prussakov

A text focusing on how project management works in the real world, including integration with corporate processes and initiatives.

By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.

Presenting the current knowledge and understanding of complexity in projects, this practice-oriented book will help practitioners and their managers improve future practice, and will guide research into answering those questions that will best help to improve understanding of the topic.

By Terry Cooke-Davies (ed), et al.

Discussing the economic underpinnings of cost benefit analysis, this practical book addresses measurement problems associated with shadow pricing of public goods, and outlines potential pitfalls for the non-specialist.

By Barry P. Keating, Maryann O. Keating

With reflective questions to make the ideas stick and key strategies for success, this book shows how behavior, language, and attitudes affect engagement and how leveraging character strengths can help improve relationships, increase innovation, and build higher-functioning teams.

By Ruth Pearce

Including check lists, templates, tools, techniques and real-life case studies, this friendly and accessible guide shows how the enduring challenges of achieving business value from information systems and technology projects can be addressed successfully.

By Elizabeth Daniel, John Ward

In Benefits Realisation: The Change-Driven Approach to Project Success, renowned benefits realisation expert, speaker, and consultant Rasmus Rytter introduces a new approach to change projects where benefits realisation defines the design of the project and how it's led.

By Rasmus Rytter

Providing a comprehensive look at the topic of benefits realization in of portfolio, program, and project management, this practice guide will help readers tackle this important topic and drive more successful outcomes and better strategic alignment in your organization.

By Project Management Institute

Using a simple step-by-step, six-phase approach, this comprehensive guide focuses on the necessary leadership skills required to be successful in driving change by improving processes within an organization to improve business results.

By Gina Abudi, Yusuf Abudi

A no-nonsense, practical guide that will enable you to think like a professional bid manager, this book uncovers the myths of bidding and teaches you all the skills you need to win new clients and retain existing ones through formal tender processes.

By Emma Jaques

Every project or program has exigencies that can cause problems with cost, schedule, or outcome. This book is the ultimate antidote.

By Ronald B. Cagle

Whether you already have a project portfolio, or are starting to build a portfolio from scratch, this breakthrough book will show you how to obtain a high-performing project portfolio without investing in expensive tools.

By Murali Kulathumani

With practical examples of competency models and how to deploy them, this insightful guide provides the proven strategic approaches needed to grow and evolve your project managers' competency over time, in step with the needs of your business, and supplies.

By Loredana Abramo, Rich Maltzman

Detailing a proven plan for achieving business continuity and business preparedness, this important book includes numerous diagrams, checklists, and tools to help you determine exactly what you must do to prepare for a serious event.

By Gregg D. Richie, Ralph L. Kliem

Delivering key tips, tools and techniques this unique reference challenges various traditional approaches and strategies for the PMO and shows how to implement a PMO using an extensively proven roadmap adaptable to any type or size organization.

By Mark Price Perry

By showcasing diverse project management office (PMO) manager success stories, this guide offers executives, managers, and all those involved in the projects of organizations, an understanding of the value a PMO can provide.

By Mark Price Perry

Written from a business perspective, this book contains the executive insights, management strategy, tactics, processes and architecture needed for the successful implementation, ongoing management, and continual improvement of PPM in any organization.

By Mark Price Perry

Including a few case studies to aid practitioners in understanding the importance of organizational project management (OPM), this comprehensive volume provides views from a wide range of international scholars researching OPM at a cross-disciplinary level.

By Nathalie Drouin (eds), Ralf Müller, Shankar Sankaran

Containing more than 1,000 practice questions accompanied by in-depth explanations for both correct and incorrect answers, this highly effective, exam-focused study resource will enable you to take the 2018 version of the challenging CAPM exam with confidence.

By Cate McCoy, James L. Haner

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Paul Sanghera

With learning objectives, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations, this up-to-date resource offers complete coverage of all the material included on the Certified Associate in Project Management and Project Management Professional exams.

By Joseph Phillips

With learning objectives, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations, this up-to-date resource offers complete coverage of all the material included on the Certified Associate in Project Management and Project Management Professional exams.

By Joseph Phillips

Drawing on an impressive array of large-scale government projects gleaned from government audit reports across three major sectors-infrastructure and transportation, information systems, and defense, this study explains why government projects go wrong and what can be done to improve their success rates.

By Min Liu, Ofer Zwikael, Peerasit Patanakul, Young Hoon Kwak

Showing project managers how to lay a solid foundation for virtual collaboration, this book provides the latest information, success stories, and an easy-to-follow guide to implementing online collaboration tools and helping to overcome obstacles.

By Elizabeth Harrin

Drawing on case studies across organizational contexts, this book combines individual experiences to investigate how project management relies on communication as teams develop products, services, and internal processes.

By Benjamin Lauren

Following a best practice model for communication strategy development and planning, this book gives program and project communicators a framework for developing an effective strategy, and examines how to even increase employee engagement through the process.

By Ann Pilkington

Designed to help you overcome that daunting hurdle caused by the wrong communication strategy, this book will show you in a step-by-step way how to use communications to deliver a successful business project and bring the business benefits promised.

By G. Michael Campbell

Offering proven best practices from case studies and real-world scenarios and including a variety of tools, templates, models, and frameworks, this book provides an in-depth view of digital project management from initiation to execution to monitoring and maintenance.

By Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar

Presenting construction project management concepts in a clear and understandable manner, this concise guide covers major industry issues such as the impact of change orders, safety, tools and material control, and contract risk management.

By Eddy M. Rojas (ed)

Thorough and hands-on, this guide combines a solid foundation in the principles and fundamentals of the Critical Path Method (CPM) with particular emphasis on project planning, demonstrated through an example project.

By Glenn A. Sears, Richard H. Clough, S. Keoki Sears

Providing a solid foundation of the principles and fundamentals of project management, with a particular emphasis on project planning demonstrated through an example project, this guide gives readers access to hands-on project management experience in the context of real-world project management problems.

By Glenn A. Sears, Jerald L. Rounds, Richard H. Clough, Robert O. Segner Jr., S. Keoki Sears

Providing numerous worked problems and construction scheduling exercises, as well as an expanded glossary and list of acronyms, this comprehensive guide examines the analytical methods used to devise an efficient and successful schedule for construction projects of all sizes.

By Saleh Mubarak

The book is aimed at consultants, coaches, trainers and mediators as well as executives and project managers who are responsible for the implementation of consulting projects.

By Josef Herget, Robert Bodenstein

Major Projects are Delayed by Months or Years, and Cost Millions More Than Budgeted, Because of Common Mistakes Made at the Contracting Stage

By Edward W. Merrow

The book addresses students as well as practitioners and gives insights into the usage of contracts to manage companies or relationships. It covers contract handling from preliminary deliberations to negotiations, implementation, and all the way to the evaluation of the contract within the company.

By Bert Eichhorn, Ralph Schuhmann

Addressing project management in the context of information systems, this book deals with general project management principles, with focus on the special characteristics of information systems.

By David L. Olson

Covering key topics such as choosing a venue or site, costing and procurement practices, and evaluating risk management and reducing it with contract management, this book applies generally accepted project management tools to corporate event planning.

By Phyllis Mikolaitis, William O’Toole

Addressing cost from a strategic perspective, this book provides practicing managers with a thorough understanding of the various dimensions of cost and value in projects, along with the factors that impact them.

By Jeffrey K. Pinto, Ray R. Venkataraman

The newly revised and updated Second Edition of Cost and Value Management in Projects provides project managers with a thorough understanding of the various dimensions of cost and value in projects, along with the factors that impact them and the managerial approaches for achieving cost efficiency and value optimization.

By Jeffrey K. Pinto, Ray R. Venkataraman

Laid out in a way that follows the phases of building a project schedule, this book is indispensable to assist schedule technicians and project managers step-by-step in the process of developing, analyzing, and maintaining a project schedule.

By Christopher Carson, Craig Relyea (eds), Peter Oakander

Including case studies from companies that have successfully applied this approach, this insightful book provides practical tools such as templates, surveys, and benchmark reports for savvy leaders who want to ensure project success throughout their organizations.

By Randall L. Englund, Robert J. Graham

Combining traditional project management skills with outside-the-box thinking and business creativity, this book provides an invaluable new set of tools for any project management professional tasked with making difficult decisions in these uncertain times.

By Michael S. Dobson, Ted Leemann

Establishing the groundwork for encouraging and sustaining creativity in your projects, this book discusses common - and not so common - tools and techniques for developing project management deliverables, and identifies the challenges that can arise when using creativity in a project.

By Ralph L. Kliem

Spelling out all the critical chain project management (CCPM) techniques, tools, and theory managers need to develop critical chain solutions, this easy-to-follow resource is packed with fresh, field-tested insights on how to plan, lead, and complete projects with unprecedented efficiency.

By Lawrence P. Leach

Written for both project managers and engineers alike, this edition points to new paths and methods to bring the customer into a virtual project alliance through the Internet and to embed quality in the project process.

By Bruce T. Barkley, James H. Saylor

Aiming to help the reader better understand the importance of data analysis in project management, this book provides guidance by showing tools, methods, techniques and lessons learned on how to better utilize the data gathered from the projects.

By Seweryn Spalek (ed)

Designed to help organizations deliver exceptional project results on a consistent basis, this unique, how-to implementation guide unifies project management, portfolio management, and requirements engineering into one proven, comprehensive best practice framework.

By Jamal Moustafaev

Including sample SOWs, templates, and forms to help you manage change throughout the project life cycle, this guide helps you avoid the many pitfalls and deliver projects on time, within budget, and of the scope and quality desired by the client.

By Michael G. Martin

Aligned with the International Institute of Business Analysis' (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge 2.0, this guide covers all of the BABOK knowledge areas and features preparatory sections for the CBAP exam that include 300 questions.

By Hans Jonasson

Created to be easily adaptable to different project types and technological advances, this unique guide fills a significant gap in the marketplace, and provides the knowledge, best practices, and proven steps to successfully manage digital projects from end to end.

By Taylor Olson

Containing a set of questions designed to measure your organization's sustainability, this book will help you lead your business to improved innovation, reduced waste, higher morale, and simply better-executed projects that are more fully in line with the enterprise goals.

By David Shirley, Richard Maltzman

Discussing the two different perceptions of the EVM concept, this book focuses on employing the concept based on implementing a few fundamental principles and using project management best practices, which applies to all projects, of any size and duration, in any industry.

By Joel M. Koppelman, Quentin W. Fleming

Containing examples and checklists that are adaptable to almost any project environment, this book is an invaluable resource that not only demonstrates how to attain effective communications, but also how communications can effect a project's bottom line.

By Ralph L. Kliem

In the form of an adaptive complex project framework, this detailed book offers a proven solution to managing any project that must succeed in the face of organizational complexity and market uncertainty.

By Robert K. Wysocki

Including examples for most key documents such as the terms of reference, business case and project plan, this essential guide will show you how to make sure your project is successful by focusing on the skills a manager needs to develop in order to make sure your project management approach is effective.

By John Carroll

Fully updated to cover the new PMBOK(r) 5, this comprehensive guide authored by well-known project management expert Robert Wysocki examines traditional, agile, and extreme project management techniques; the Enterprise Project Management Model; and Kanban and Scrumban methodologies.

By Robert K. Wysocki

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated

By Robert K. Wysocki

Covering the major project management techniques, including Traditional, Agile, and Extreme, this in-depth book lays out a comprehensive overview of all of the best-of-breed project management approaches and tools today.

By Robert K. Wysocki

Presenting an empirically grounded definition of project portfolio management effectiveness that can be applied to organizations of all kinds, this book identifies the five critical process, organizational, and human factors that impact project portfolio management effectiveness, and proposes common-sense criteria for effectively measuring it.

By Audrey Curtis, Brian Koppel, Peerasit Patanakul

Providing a number of training exercises and scenarios, this book explores ways to make emotional intelligence training more effective, and investigates how emotional intelligence correlates with being successful at working in projects.

By Nicholas Clarke, Ranse Howell

Introducing readers to all facets of emotional intelligence (EI), this indispensable guide shows how emotions can be leveraged to meet project goals, and gives project managers the tools they need to create winning teams and get the job done right and on time.

By Anthony C. Mersino

Complete with enlightening examples and case studies, the book provides readers with practical methods for incorporating enterprise project governance into their organization's culture, synchronizing it with corporate governance, and maximizing efficiency and results across departments.

By Luiz Rocha, Paul C. Dinsmore

Including numerous examples and step-by-step instructions, this concise guide provides all the principles, processes, best practices, and detailed instruction needed to define, implement, and deploy an EPM solution successfully in your organization.

By Hagit Landman

In concise terms, using easy to follow examples, this book describes the various aspects and considerations required in effective project management.

By Cristina Cosma, Francis Hopcroft

This conceptual guide will provide you with the soft skills necessary for managing tough people issues. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Ginger Levin, Steven W. Flannes

Reflecting the changing landscape of projects today, this book empowers project managers to master the skills necessary to succeed in the current environment, and augment their toolbox of skills and techniques around the delivery of projects in today's complicated business environment.

By Kerry R. Wills

Providing a solid roadmap for the ethical health of a project, this volume demonstrates the importance of making ethics a key consideration in managing projects and describes the impacts that occur when ethical transgressions arise.

By Ralph L. Kliem

This book provides the direction you need to apply project management's time-tested tools for keeping things on time and under budget.

By Jeff Davidson

Providing pointers for existing or aspiring managers and project managers, this book identifies some of the most significant complexities faced by project managers when attempting to implement the PMBOK framework in global projects.

By James W. Marion, Tracey M. Richardson

Sharing his forty-five years of project management experience, best-selling author and industry guru Robert Wysocki presents a straightforward, enlightening, and pragmatic guide to help senior managers make the transition to an organization that profits and thrives on complexity.

By Robert K. Wysocki

Providing research that will help project managers become more adept at using expert judgment effectively, this book presents critical recommendations that will show you how to improve the way you select, train, and work with experts to increase the odds of any project's success.

By Paul S. Szwed

Written for leaders under high risk and high pressure while producing desired bottom-line results, this practical guide includes an integrated set of principles, skills, tools, and practices proven to work under conditions of rapid change and uncertainty.

By Doug DeCarlo

Packed with information, effective practices, and invaluable advice, this definitive guide is the comprehensive handbook for anyone who believes meetings should be productive, relevant, and as short as possible.

By Ingrid Bens

Whether you are an aspiring program manager, a successful project manager, or a project team member, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into what it takes to run successful programs in today's business environment.

By Samir Penkar

Explaining the jargon and dispelling the mystique that surrounds Lean, this book provides readers with guidance and tips on performing audits or assurance reviews for Lean projects.

By Christopher Wright

Including discussion exercises, tools and techniques, as well as notes and tips, this unique guide presents cohesive, concise, yet comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of program management.

By Paul Sanghera

Fully updated based on the latest version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r)), this up-to-the-minute guide is filled with tips and techniques for planning and executing projects on time, on budget, and with maximum efficiency.

By Joseph Heagney

A timely revision of a trusted resource that project managers have come to rely on to learn the latest techniques or refresh their knowledge on all aspects of successful project management.

By Joseph Heagney

The book provides comprehensive guidelines to help you identify potential issues and then a range of strategies for mitigating them.

By John Hawkins

Designed to help the business analyst decide which requirement artifacts should be produced to adequately analyze requirements, this critical book examines the complete spectrum of business requirement analysis from preparation through documentation.

By Don J. Wessels, Kathleen B. Hass, Kevin Brennan

Providing the tools and knowledge to control your future and secure your fortune, this indispensable book offers step-by-step instructions for you to establish and grow your own consultancy business.

By Alan Weiss

Covering all phases of an international project with real case examples, this hands-on reference aligns real-world experiences in international project management with practical project management principals.

By M. Kemal Atesmen

Packed with charts, tables, figures, and case histories from many different countries, this step-by-step guide demonstrates how PM concepts and techniques can be applied in various political, cultural, and geographical settings.

By David I. Cleland, Roland Gareis (eds)

Filled with real-life examples and techniques, this book describes how to adapt your organisation and your projects to thrive in a global multi-cultural environment, where most communication is in writing and asynchronous.

By Jean Binder

Offering a comprehensive survey and discussion of the theory surrounding multiple project management offices (PMOs), this book provides a report of international research with a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates the foundations of project management with social geography and innovation.

By Johannes Glückler, Monique Aubry, Ralf Müller

Developed by leading experts in the field, this practical resource provides guidance to organizations and practitioners on how to implement or enhance governance on portfolios, programs, and projects.

By Project Management Institute

With contributions from experienced and highly regarded international writers and practitioners, this practical guide gives an introduction to, and overview of, the essential knowledge required for managing projects.

By Rodney Turner (ed)

Presenting a collection of stories describing the events surrounding particular challenges a project manager may face, this book will help managers validate their own good practices and help them avoid the pitfalls so many have encountered on their projects.

By David Pratt

Featuring illustrative case studies and insights from acknowledged leaders in green project management, this book details cutting-edge green techniques and methods, and teaches project managers how to maximize resources and get the most out of limited budgets.

By David Shirley, Richard Maltzman

With both project management professionals and novices in mind, the authors of this book provide humorous but ultimately informative insights and advice regarding the practical, day-to-day aspects of project management.

By Dan Bradbary, David Garrett

Are you overwhelmed by project management jargon? Interested in developing a project management career, but bewildered by the plethora of costly courses and qualifications? Then this is the book for you.

By Paul J Fielding

Gain essential skills for career development with concise accessible advice on the fundamentals of project management.

By Paul J Fielding

Giving you the knowledge, insight and tools you need to recognize that a project is in trouble, this book helps you determine what to do about it, transform a failing project into a successful one, and keep from getting into difficulty on future projects.

By Dennis C. Nagle, Ralph R. Young, Steven M. Brady

Integrating the most significant concepts in team motivation and behaviors into a single set of principles, this book provides a summary of "people-based" management skills and techniques that can be applied when working in a team environment.

By Zachary Wong

A how-to guide for leaders of hybrid projects that covers technical and leadership principles across the project delivery spectrum.

By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio

Exploring several key risks frequently faced on projects, and how Agile can help alleviate them, this book looks at how we can effectively integrate traditional project management approaches with Agile approaches to solve real-world project problems.

By Mark Tolbert, Susan Parente

Drawing on real-world situations and hundreds of examples, this definitive resource explains how to use high-level risk assessment tools, implement a system for monitoring and controlling projects, and properly document every consideration.

By Tom Kendrick

Authored by an experienced practitioner and trainer, this step-by-step guide breaks down the PRINCE2 methodology into bite-size chunks so you will be able to obtain the best possible results from all your projects.

By Susan Tuttle

Outlining practical knowledge and steps to define and develop a methodology in alignment with the foundational standards and framework that were first provided in PMI's PMBOK(r) Guide, this book will help practitioners develop relevant and effective methodologies for their organizations.

By Project Management Institute

With examples, tips, and mini case studies, this book explains how to develop a continuous improvement culture of change that will be perceived by employees as a positive opportunity to create something new, exciting and valuable, instead of something negative to confront and resist.

By Gina Abudi

Providing a detailed protocol for managing a program from initiation to closure, this complete guide goes beyond best practices to offer detailed guidance for program managers to successfully coordinate any program.

By Allen R. Green, Ginger Levin

Covering an area of program and project management that is rapidly becoming more widely valued, this book blends theory with practical experience to present a clear process flow to managing the benefits life cycle.

By Kenn Dolan

Filled with examples and case histories, this book details a tactical approach for implementing the balanced scorecard framework at the project level and investigates numerous sample scorecards, metrics, and techniques.

By Jessica Keyes

Identifying the key factors to consider, this book provides a process, with tools, to assess an organization's readiness to implement an executive sponsorship program, develop a plan for improvement, and monitor the progress of a program once it has begun.

By Dawne E. Chandler, Payson Hall

Both a practical reference for beginners and a handy refresher for seasoned professionals, this powerful learning tool lets project professionals bring the power of the seminar back to their own project environments.

By Larry Richman

Based on the hugely popular American Management Association seminar of the same name, this ultra practical reference offers powerful and repeatable project initiatives that improve processes, streamline productivity, and cut costs dramatically.

By Larry Richman

Providing the tools, insights, and metrics needed to successfully manage innovation projects, this book will help readers identify problems in their organization, conceive elegant solutions, and, when necessary, promote changes to their organizational culture.

By Harold Kerzner

Containing a rich range of industry case studies, this authoritative resource provides insights into how health and safety can be more effectively integrated into the procurement, design, and management of construction projects.

By Helen Lingard, Ron Wakefield

Packed with practical and proven tools and methods you can use right away, this book will help you develop your interpersonal skills and meet the challenges of today's competitive professional environment.

By Ginger Levin

A survival pack to be used on your journey through the innovation landscape, this book provides the knowledge and grit needed to overcome the numerous obstacles that innovators will face in what many are calling the golden age of automation and artificial intelligence.

By Steven James Keays

A comprehensive methodology and management system, this advanced reference offers project owners and developers alike a road map to predictable and repeatable project success, and a guarantee of future investment returns from their assets.

By Steven James Keays

This handbook shows how to avoid cost overruns and schedule delays, meet customer requirements, take control of budgets and resource allocation, and much more. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Jag Sodhi, Prince Sodhi

Addressing leadership issues in the IT industry to help IT practitioners lead from the lowest level, this in-depth book includes a case study to show how to put leadership principles and practices into action and how an IT geek can transform into an effective IT geek leader.

By Byron A. Love

Explaining how to successfully manage an IT project and prepare for CompTIA Project+ certification, this step-by-step guide offers proven methods for initiating a project, selecting team members, conferring with management, setting realistic timetables, and more.

By Joseph Phillips

Filled with samples, templates, and guidelines, this practical guide explains - in non-technical language - how to incorporate proven leadership principles into daily work to help you effectively set up, manage, and align your projects for success.

By Thomas Juli

Based on a groundbreaking study of complex industrial projects around the world, this book describes a revolutionary new approach to project analysis that, for the first time, succinctly measures project outcomes in terms of project leadership and associated human factors.

By Edward W. Merrow, Neeraj S. Nandurdikar

This book explains how project managers can adopt the most appropriate leadership styles, encourage greater teaming, become more effective decision-makers, reduce incidences of negative conflict, and eliminate "negative energy."

By Ralph L. Kliem

Providing a practical toolbox for successfully managing international projects, this book offers case studies from experienced project professionals working internationally, each offering deep insights into the challenges of cross-border projects and ideas on how to lead successfully.

By Bob Dignen, Peter Wollmann

For executives and managers who oversee the projects within their organization, this insightful reference will help the reader gain an understanding of how to leverage business analysis and business analyst professionals for better project results.

By Vicki James

Presenting a framework to understand the concept of aligning project management to business strategy, this book analyzes 18 successful projects and identifies the 11 common factors found in all of them.

By Aaron J. Shenhar, Dov Dvir, Dragan Milosevic, Hans Thamhain

Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of existing project controls, this detailed guide outlines effective communication techniques for managing expectations and acquiring the support required to deliver successful projects on time and under budget.

By Lynda Bourne

A guide to the the three major areas: deliverables, project actions and tools essentail to managing any project.

By Michael Greer

Presenting a pragmatic view of a robust business analysis as a service model, this unique reference illustrates opportunities for the business to maximize technology spending through the utilization of managed business analysis services.

By Barbara Davis

Presenting a systems-based approach to construction project management, this insightful resource will facilitate a greater understanding of the complexity inherent in large construction projects and how that complexity can be effectively managed.

By John K. Briesemeister

Drawing on insights, experience, and case studies from executives, practitioners, and researchers, this book explores the strengths and the weaknesses of "first-generation" (traditional) and "second-generation" (agile, complex, and extreme) project management approaches, to understand their limitations.

By Richard J. Heaslip

This innovative book helps determine the most effective approach to managing all aspects of a project. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Kathleen B. Hass

Including best practice tips, process diagrams, and comparative analytical tables, this practical resource is a self-help book for design and construction that provides an insider's look at the mysteries of managing design for yourself, team, firm and future.

By Michael Alan LeFevre

Managing IT Projects is your special compendium of knowledge, featuring "project management black magic," chock full of proven recipes for project managers and IT organization managers, as well as advice on how to act in critical situations.

By Marcin Dąbrowski

Helping you create a vision and secure buy-in for your learning program, this book explains how to identify roles and resources to help you deliver on your program, prioritize program needs and ensure the necessary infrastructure is in place, and more.

By Lisa Downs

"Managing Multiple Projects" blends formal project management techniques with time management and productivity tools in a step-by-step approach to consolidating your workload. From combining schedules to prioritising work and engaging stakeholders, this book clearly explains how to adapt your behaviour and techniques to successfully work on several projects at once.

By Elizabeth Harrin

This book examines practically useful management and people skills, and looks at competencies from the micro, meso, and macro- lens. At the micro- level, the book examines a range of competencies needed for managing oneself and others in a project environment, such as personality style, cognitive skills, communication skills, and emotional intelligence. The book will also includes discussion on strategies for managing emotions of self and others effectively.

By Karuna Jain, Sankaran Shankar, Upasna A. Agarwal, Vittal Anantatmula

Exploring the inevitable challenges of any project management environment, this no-nonsense book walks you through the soft issues of project management, including communicating, negotiating, and influencing skills that are vital to your project success.

By Brian Irwin

Breaking old views of looking at competence and brings competence into the knowledge-intensive age, this practical book describes how we as individuals, as well as organizations, can be efficient in the development and utilization of competence.

By Rolf Medina

Providing simple yet powerful tools to ensure that projects deliver on their goals in a controlled and accountable manner, this practical handbook gives you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success.

By Trish Melton

With targeted discussions and specific techniques to help you meet the issues that arise every day, this book provides clear and actionable advice to project managers for recognizing, anticipating, and overcoming challenges associated with the human component of leading others.

By Melanie McBride

The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), published by the Project Management Institute, provides a roadmap of performance domains designed to support project managers in all phases of project management.

By James Marion, Tracey Richardson

Placing risk management in its proper context in the world of project management and beyond, this guide offers a concise description of current best practices in project risk management while introducing the latest relevant developments.

By David Hillson

Gathering decades of research on communications and stakeholder relations, this light and conversational book goes beyond theory to offer real tools and valuable resources focused on presenting what works when it comes to stakeholder management.

By Mario Henrique Trentim

Drawing on twelve cases ranging from the launch of the Freeview television system in the United Kingdom to the sifting and removal of the New York World Trade Center pile of debris following the 9/11 terrorist attack, this book explores what is different managerially if work is unexpected, its implementation is urgent and an immediate start it is required.

By Keith White-Hunt, Stephen Wearne

Use this practical, authoritative guide to arm yourself with proven strategies and techniques for producing high-quality, extremely usable documentation, while cutting cost and time-to-market.

By JoAnn T. Hackos

Illustrating the PPM process from strategic planning through portfolio evaluation and adjustment, this unique text provides a holistic view to include people, process, tools, and techniques that work synergistically within the organization to produce portfolio decisions with the best chance of success.

By Michael J. Bible, Susan S. Bivins

Focusing on the necessary data collection efforts, this book will help you identify easy opportunities for improvement and will guide you through the process of creating value propositions for the ideas that will drive the organization's future profits.

By Brett Trusko, H. James Harrington

A step-by-step guide to collecting, analyzing, and reporting data in a consistent manner, this book offers proven methods that will help you make sure your programs and projects will deliver what they promise and convince any decision maker that the organization's money will be well spent on your efforts.

By Jack Phillips, Patti Pulliam Phillips, Victor Buzachero, Zack L. Phillips

Make the most of Project to manage people, time, and money.

By Nancy Stevenson

By stripping project management down to its bare facts, simplifying everything but trivializing nothing, this jargon-free, concise book offers sound, practical advice on how to organize and manage a small or medium-sized project.

By Dennis Lock

Exploring the key principles behind Napoleon's successes, this book looks at the triggers that led to his downfall, and the lessons to be learned from his ultimate demise-and applies these lessons to modern-day project management and leadership at all levels.

By Jerry Manas

Illustrating the application of NLP to develop competencies, this book will equip you to communicate across cultures, reframe problems, manage stakeholder groups, resolve conflicts, motivate teams and become an even better leader.

By Peter Parkes

An in-depth look at the management challenges and opportunities for modern large-scale software development departments.

By E.M. Bennatan

Whether you direct projects, fund projects, or conduct project work, this vital guide offers valuable insights on how organizational project management (OPM) can give any organization the competitive edge.

By Rosemary Hossenlopp (ed)

Using an illustrative case study along with case study exercises, this practical guide offers a generic, practical methodology and tool kit to design, build, and manage a balanced portfolio at any level of the enterprise.

By Prasad S. Kodukula

Cutting through the jargon, formulas, and needless complexity of project management, this step-by-step guide boils down the basics so you can design a simple, effective plan for any project and follow it through to successful completion.

By Pamela McGhee, Peter McAliney

With tips, exercises, multiple-choice quizzes, and study aids, this thorough book provides a complete study guide for candidates wishing to sit and pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

By Sean Whitaker

This dynamic resource is filled with scenarios, methods and tools for handling people problems that involve communication, motivation, performance, and more. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Ginger Levin, Steven W. Flannes

Allowing readers to focus on the areas they need the most help with, this concise guide offers words and phrases for specific situations in the project management process, from clarifying project goals, defining project scope, estimating time and resources, assembling an effective team, and more.

By Helen S. Cooke, Karen Tate

Transformation is no longer a short-lived initiative. It is not a program. It is not linear. Instead, the world's leading organizations now embrace transformation as a a challenging, stretching, exciting and essential constant in their lives. Welcome to the age of perpetual transformation.

By PMI Project Management Institute

Putting "soft" skills into a "hard" framework that readers can use for themselves and their team members, this practical guide provides readers with the tools and techniques that not only help them improve their own personal performance, but that of their project teams as well.

By Zachary Wong

Supplying an insider's look at the questions, terminology, and sentence construction you will encounter on the day of the exam, this indispensable study tool is designed to help you pass the exam and achieve the highly sought after PgMP certification.

By Ginger Levin, J. LeRoy Ward

Based on best practices that complement PMI‘s standards, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource available to help you prepare for the exam with new and changed terminology.

By Ginger Levin, J. LeRoy Ward

Preparing you for the all-new Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification exam developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI), this comprehensive guide offers concepts and terms, case studies, review questions, and much more.

By Paul Sanghera

PM Illustrated: A visual learner's guide to project management shows you how the various elements that make up the PMP(r) exam fit together. Using mindmaps and illustrations, the entire PMP(r) exam syllabus is explained with memorable graphics and cartoons to boost recall and shorten your study time.

By Mike Griffiths

Providing a breakdown of the credential exam contents as a guide for areas to study, this book describes the tasks that risk professionals perform and the knowledge and skills used to complete each task.

By Project Management Institute

Providing a breakdown of the credential exam contents as a guide for areas to study, this book describes the tasks that scheduling professionals perform and the knowledge and skills used to complete each task.

By Project Management Institute

Including a large selection of practice questions, this comprehensive guide provides complete coverage of the challenging PMP certification requirements, helps you organize your studies, and assures that you are covering every aspect of the exam.

By Cynthia Snyder

Including more than 400 realistic multiple choice practice questions organized by topic, answers and explanations, this essential learning tool will help you prepare for and pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam.

By Sean Whitaker

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Paul Sanghera

Including more than 800 exam-quality questions with detailed answers and explanations, plus more than 200 fill-in-the-blank, true/false, and short answer questions to help you prepare for the exam, this guide provides you with a thorough preparation foundation for taking the PMP exam.

By Charles Duncan, James Haner, John Estrella, Rubin Jen, Sami Zahran

This book will help you pass the exam with ease and will also serve as an essential on-the-job reference.

By Joseph Phillips

Helping you prepare for this important test and earn the certification that will advance your career, this guide provides extensive review exercises, hundreds of practice questions, a complete practice exam, and experience-based tips to maximize your score.

By Henrique Moura

Offering complete, concise review of essential project management concepts and practices, this focused guide cover 100% of the PMP exam objectives and helps you ensure your full preparation in advance of the big day.

By Brett Feddersen, Kim Heldman, Vanina Mangano

Providing coverage of all exam objectives and logically organized by exam domain, this book contains enough questions with full explanations to help you pass the PMP examination on your first and only attempt.

By James L. Haner

Providing complete coverage of all official objectives for the PMP exam, this book includes an Exam Readiness checklist, Inside the Exam sections in every chapter, Two-Minute Drills, and simulated exam questions that match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam.

By Joseph Phillips

Featuring 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for the PMP exam, this comprehensive guide shows you not only what-but how-to study for this challenging exam.

By Joseph Phillips

If you're looking to be as prepared as possible before taking the 200-question, 4-hour PMP exam, then this review guide gives you that extra preparation you need to approach the exam with confidence.

By Kim Heldman, Vanina Mangano

Fully updated to reflect the Project Management Institute's latest changes to the exam, this book is a complete resource for PMP exam preparation, featuring full coverage of all exam objectives, hands-on practice, and plenty of interactive tools.

By Kim Heldman

Offering five 160 question tests, plus an additional 200-question practice exam, this up-to-date book is designed to test your knowledge, focus, and mental endurance to get you fully prepared for the big day.

By Kim Heldman, Vanina Mangano

Fully updated to reflect the Project Management Institute's most recent changes to the PMP exam, this concise and focused guide includes new developments in best practices, as well as important points you need to know about initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing the project, so you can feel confident going into the exam.

By Brett Feddersen, Kim Heldman, Vanina Mangano

A comprehensive study guide for the PMP certification exam that can also be used as a reference afterwards, this book includes hands-on, real-world scenarios to prepare you for the many situations you may face on the job.

By Kim Heldman

A key component of successful project management is the ability to glean key learnings from the experience. This book helps readers reflect on project learnings and designate a process to implement them across the organization.

By Terry Williams

Understanding and using politics in project management.

By Jeffrey K. Pinto

Covering the 14 knowledge areas of project management that are essential for successful projects, this pioneering reference will help you control the WHAT, HOW, and WHEN to do things as well as WHO is responsible for doing them, which will lead to successful project management.

By Hans Ottosson

Providing hints and tips on how to get the most out of the risk management process, this comprehensive guide helps you apply risk management theories and tools to your project so you can manage risk properly, efficiently, and effectively.

By David Hillson, Peter Simon

A clear and concise introduction to business statistics, this book provides a solid understanding of the material without being too simple or mind-numbingly complex, and turns business statistics into something approachable and sensible.

By John Buglear

Acknowledging PCM as a supporting discipline to the project processes during the project lifecycle, this standard is a reference for the project manager, team and other stakeholders, for understanding PCM and applying it appropriately in a project.

By Project Management Institute

This practice standard describes the aspects of project estimating that are recognized as good practice on most projects most of the time and that are widely recognized and consistently applied.

By Project Management Institute

Including the latest thinking regarding good and accepted practices, this book provides the framework to create, manage, and maintain schedules in a project environment.

By Project Management Institute

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) serves as a guide for defining work as it relates to a specific project's objectives. This book supplies project managers and team members with direction for the preliminary development and the implementation of the WBS.

By Project Management Institute

Illustrated with practical tips and a checklist to help keep your project on track and to scale, this clearly written guide will help you select the methodologies and tools that will enable you to expend minimum effort to achieve maximum gain.

By David Pratt

Process Groups: A Practice Guide is the right supplemental guide for you. This important companion to, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r) Guide), offers useful and practical guidance for a predictive approach to project management practices.

By Project Management Institute PMI

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By GTS Learning

What is it that makes a manager or a politician a successful decision maker? Focusing on the process aspects of change, this book addresses strategies to deal with the disadvantages of process management.

By Ernst ten Heuvelhof, Hans de Bruijn, Roel in ’t Veld

Using relatable case examples throughout, this unique guide demonstrates a practical and proven approach to using project management strategies, tools, and techniques to consistently create successful procurement practices that go beyond mere cost savings.

By Diana L. Lindstrom

Describing both the strategic and tactical roles of the business analyst, this book focuses on this emerging profession and how its role is becoming more critical within the continually changing business environment.

By Kathleen B. Hass

Providing a holistic view of program governance while covering multiple elements of program governance, this book clarifies the linkage/dependencies between program governance and other governance levels, such as international governance and corporate governance, which have a strong influence on governance framework for programs.

By Muhammad Ehsan Khan

Grounded in a robust theoretical framework, complemented by a number of case studies, this practical guide analyzes the best organizational structures for program management and provides tools and techniques to deal with complex, unplanned change in a structured manner.

By Michel Thiry

Providing a literature review of program and project management complexity, this book presents a competency model, based on the authors' seven decades of collective experience in the field, which follows the framework of PMI's model for project managers.

By Ginger Levin, J. LeRoy Ward

Identifying critical success factors specific to program management, this book focuses on effective leadership styles and the power of teamwork in exceeding expectations. It examines various leadership styles and traits and provides helpful insights on the tough choices leaders are often forced to make.

By Mark C. Bojeun

Focusing on how to pass the rigorous PgMP exam, this comprehensive resource offers full coverage of all the material and serves as both a complete certification study guide and an essential on-the-job reference.

By Joseph Phillips

Much more than your typical exam prep guide, this comprehensive reference provides a roadmap designed to help even the most experienced program manager more effectively meet organizational strategic objectives and continuously improve business results.

By Craig J. Letavec, Diane C. Altwies, Steven C. Rollins

Intended to fill the gap in literature between customers and contractors in customer projects, this book helps project managers better understand the dynamics of customer projects under contract from business development through handover and find solutions for common problems.

By Oliver F. Lehmann

This book presents a new way to look at communication within projects. It combines real-world examples and practical tips with theory, research, and professional standards you can apply to any size and type of project.

By Connie Plowman, Jill Diffendal

This book reveals the many challenges of project control in practice and then provides practical good practices to overcome them.

By Yakubu Olawale

An entertaining and easy-to-read guide to a structured project decision-making process, this practical book will help you identify risks and perform basic quantitative and qualitative risk and decision analyses.

By Lev Virine, Michael Trumper

Using updated examples and case studies that illustrate how to apply the analytical techniques described in the book, this book covers the rationale for project financing, how to prepare the financial plan, assess the risks, design the financing mix, raise the funds, and much more.

By John D. Finnerty

Authoritative, immediately relevant and applicable, this book explains the different preferences organizations have in goal setting, along with best-practices, roles and responsibilities related to governance tasks.

By Ralf Müller

Developing a set of principles designed to overcome typical problems, this comprehensive guide will provide the practical information necessary to establish and implement a project governance framework for a project or across an organization.

By Ross Garland

Offering real, workable solutions in bite-size pieces, this practical guide will show you how to plan your project effectively and eliminate significant problems before you start.

By Rod Beecham

This unique book presents a holistic view of a new discipline called project interface management, which is planning, coordinating, and controlling of the work of others at project interfaces.

By Michael J. Bible, Susan S. Bivins

This book traces the development of project leadership, and helps the reader develop wisdom in making decisions. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Arthur Shriberg, Jayashree Venkatraman, Timothy J. Kloppenborg

Presenting a fundamental primer for those commissioning and those delivering construction, this essential guide explains in detail the fundamentals of project life cycle economics and how they apply in the context of complex modern construction.

By Massimo Pica (ed)

Based on a 2004 APQC survey of 120+ organizations, this report focuses on consistency in the delivery of projects, strategic alignment in project prioritization, and project measurement that explains why some projects succeed while others fail.

By American Productivity & Quality Center

Enhanced throughout with diagrams, tables, chapter summaries, checklists, and case studies, this book provides leading-edge information and techniques on self-managing teams, innovative organizational structuring, team composition, and alternative teams.

By David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland

Including current case studies and sample checklists to help professionals hit the ground running, this practical guide provides the knowledge and skills needed to become proficient in Project Management and maximize the profitability and ROI of any project.

By Gary S. Stetz, Kevin R. Callahan, Lynne M. Brooks

This book will help you and your team hit maximum productivity by razor-honing your skills in sizing, organizing, and scheduling projects for ultimate effectiveness.

By Stanley E. Portny

Illustrated with more than 100 figures and tables, this interdisciplinary book provides practitioners with all the tools they need to understand Sustainable Development and apply its principles to the initiation and management of projects.

By André Martinuzzi, Claudia Weninger, Martina Huemann, Roland Gareis

Including detailed checklists and hard-headed advice, this practical resource provides step-by-step instructions for managing any project in a clean sequence of five classic phases-initiating, planning, executing, releasing, and closing.

By Melanie McBride

With contributions from more than fifty global Fortune 500 companies, this book presents unique, first hand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations.

By Harold Kerzner

Using ISO 21500 as the project management reference point and ISO 15504/33000 as the capability assessment reference, this book shows you how to assess whether your projects are being run according to a specific capability level or support them to reach higher levels of capability.

By Barry D. Lewis, Peter T. Davis

Fifty project management case studies.

By David I. Cleland (ed), et al.

Including to-do lists, hands-on checklists and helpful guidance, this useful book takes the intimidation out of project management, and shows you step-by-step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time-and headaches-in managing your projects effectively.

By Nick Graham

Drawing on the collective experience of project management leaders from around the world, this book identifies and evaluates the likely future of project management, exploring key issues that will affect everyone involved.

By Bopaya Bidanda (eds), David Cleland

Filled with exercises, worked-through answers, and self-assessment techniques, this book illustrates a wide range of real-world situations to help you develop the knowledge needed to consistently deliver projects that meet and exceed stakeholder requirements well into the future.

By Claude H. Maley

A must-read for tried and true project management skills, this concise, user-friendly book follows the project lifecycle and provides several ready-to-use templates, along with a brief description of what each template is, why it is useful, and an example to illustrate it.

By Kathryn N. Wells, Timothy J. Kloppenborg

Providing all the information and guidance you need to plan your projects with confidence and deliver them on time, this comprehensive resource will help you unlock the keys to project management success, gain the know-how to assess your strengths and weaknesses to maximise your project management potential, find proven ways to motivate your project team, and so much more.

By Nick Graham, Stanley E. Portny

Following the project life cycle with several ready-to-use templates, this concise, up-to-date, and user-friendly guide is the go-to book for tried and true project management skills combined with the most current ideas from Agile.

By Kathryn N. Wells, Timothy J. Kloppenborg

Develop your professional career objectives by using these assessment tools in your project management work.

By Project Management Institute

This book focus placed largely on the project management processes for United States (U.S) bankers.

By Dan Bonner

Including over 230 figures and tables, 60 examples and cases, and end-of-chapter summaries, review problems, questions, and case studies, this book encompasses the full range of PM, from origins, philosophy, and methodology to actual applications.

By John M. Nicholas

The leading choice for professionals and students seeking to learn and master the skills needed to successfully lead a project from conception to occupancy and beyond, this practical, indispensable guide discusses Building Information Modeling (BIM); describes the pitfalls of weak or ineffective project management systems; and offers specific examples based on real-life construction industry experience.

By Howard G. Birnberg

This book provides the new project manager with information on how to develop schedules, build a project team, work within a budget, manage risk and uncertainty, and how to use technology to stay on track within a project.

By Stanley E. Portny

Offering the latest on resource management strategies and fresh tactics for team motivation, this practical guide gives you the tools you need to deal with schedules, budgets, and deadlines while keeping your cool under pressure.

By Stanley E. Portny

Written by a well-known project management expert, this hands-on guide takes the perplexity out of being a successful PM, laying out all the steps to take your organizational, planning, and execution skills to new heights.

By Stanley E. Portny

Presenting the latest concepts in project management techniques, this easy-to-read guide quickly introduces you to the principles of successful project management with a clear and logical approach to help you deliver your projects, not only successfully, but also more easily.

By Nick Graham, Stan Portny

Exploring the discipline of project management from the perspective of the healthcare environment, this book dissects the project process and provides the tools and techniques required to successfully plan, execute, and control any healthcare-based project.

By David Shirley

Featuring real-world examples from healthcare information technology project leaders, this book presents an effective methodology that encompasses standards and best practices from project management, information technology (IT) management, and change management for a streamlined transition to digital medicine.

By David Masuda, Scott Coplan

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on April 29, 2024.

By Bob Hughes, Brian West, David I. Shepherd, Norman Smith, Roger Ireland

Introducing the latest project management thinking, terminology and standards, this book explains the principles of IT-related project management, including project planning, monitoring and control, change management, risk management more.

By Bob Hughes

Providing easy-to-read, in-a-nutshell explanations of all the project management (PM) basics that managers need to achieve project success, this book demystifies the jargon and arms managers with strategies for increasing the business value created by their company's projects.

By Jack Ferraro

Introducing project management processes, tools, and techniques that are scalable and adaptable to small projects, this book will help project managers learn a structured, disciplined approach to managing small projects sensibly and realistically.

By Sandra F. Rowe

Providing tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes, this book shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine.

By Sandra F. Rowe

Exploring the challenges and remedies from the perspective of the vendors providing the necessary goods and services to a project, this book explains the likely impact on the structure, culture, and procedures of Suppliers and identifies the additional competences they may require.

By Adrian Taggart

A modern, proven approach to project management that has the potential to supply structure, focus, and control to drive work to success.

By Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea

Complete with decision-tree diagrams, checklists, exercises and a full glossary, this book offers readers a guide to the most relevant project management tools and techniques and shows how to rigorously apply them in the pharmaceutical industry.

By Laura Brown, Tony Grundy

Whether you're struggling to keep your projects organized, or you manage projects without the benefit of a team, this book offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the people and project management process.

By James Wood, Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore

Offering a structured approach to moving projects from conception to completion, this book will help readers discover how to maintain a clear focus on client goals no matter how many changes they request or how many people get involved.

By Lou Russell

This practical handbook offers a comprehensive guide to efficient project management. It pursues a broad, well-structured approach, suitable for most projects, and allows newcomers, experienced project managers, and decision-makers to find valuable input that matches their specific needs. The Project Management Compass guides readers through various sections of the book; templates and checklists offer additional support.

By Christian Bachmann, Jürg Kuster, Mike Hubmann, Patrick Schneider, Robert Lippmann

By examining project management as an example of management innovation, this book presents an empirical investigation of the implementation journeys of organizations seeking to improve this specific management practice.

By Janice Thomas, Stella George, Svetlana Cicmil

Helping you come to grips with the basics of project management in a week, this book clarifies important principles and backs them up with case studies, quotations and tables.

By Martin Manser

Discussing the many competing paradigms and alternative perspectives available, this detailed guide focuses on systems theory as the approach suitable for organizing and managing people skilled in the design and completion of construction projects.

By Anthony Walker

Packed with detailed case studies and illustrations, this unique book explains how to move new products and services quickly from concept to product to market as a managed and seamless process free of problems and delays.

By Bruce T. Barkley

Presenting over 250 years of professional project management experience in a highly accessible format, this entertaining yet practical book will help project managers get up to speed quickly with good practice, avoid pitfalls and deliver business value.

By Elizabeth Harrin

The Project Management Institute's first practice standard.

By Project Management Institute

This guide gives you the solid grounding you need to approach a career in project management with confidence. Coverage includes gaining support, communication, negotiation & motivation skills, and much more.

By Kim Heldman

Including an exploration of current best practices, this book offers a clear, practical introduction to the complex world of project management, with an entertaining approach based on real-world application.

By Kim Heldman

Offering aspiring project managers the essential fundamentals of project management, this in-depth introductory guide presents project management principles, Project Management Institute's project management standards, and practical application of project management for the workplace.

By Kim Heldman

Providing exercises and worked examples throughout, this comprehensive guide offers a look at the human factors involved in Project Management, in particular the leadership skills required to ensure successful implementation of current best practice.

By Rory Burke, Steve Barron

Including lessons learned from several case studies, this book is intended for project managers, PMO professionals, and students of project management who wish to apply performance-based feedback to their process and project improvements.

By Mel Bost

A comprehensive tool for enhancing project management practices, this book is a roadmap showing an organization how to systematically move to higher levels of organizational behavior, improving project success and organizational performance.

By J. Kent Crawford

Presents a comprehensive survey of the tools, tips, techniques, and tactics that are available to guide project managers to the successful completion of their projects.

By Jason Charvat

A description of the job of IT project manager, offering advice and suggestions for all aspects of the profession.

By Jason Charvat

Uniquely addressing the project management of embedded products from concept to production, this book uses proven project management methods and elements of IEEE embedded software development techniques to explain how to deliver a reliable complex system to market.

By Jon M. Quigley, Kim H. Pries

Offering proven tools and techniques for project managers, this how-to guide explains how to communicate baseline capabilities, and explains the gaps between baseline and target capabilities to team members and upper management.

By Robert K. Wysocki

Presenting the fundamentals of project management that experts and top professionals use, this quick, easy guide explains how to: deliver a successful project from start to finish; communicate effectively with people at all levels; manage changes and control scope creep; identify and deal with risks; work with common project management methodologies; and more.

By Matthew Batchelor

This guide exemplifies the fundamentals of applying a project management illustration and how it can facilitate an organization in meeting its goals.

By Larry Richman

Written from a real-world perspective, this book provides a template for success by giving advice on getting to the truth of a project, getting the right initial plan, developing a genuinely workable plan and managing people so the project stays on track.

By Richard Jones

Filled with real-world examples, this book addresses the real challenges project managers face today, and is an accessible and invaluable tool that will show you how to accomplish your mission-no matter the obstacles.

By Brette McWhorter Sember, Rick A. Morris

Modular in format to facilitate training and advanced course instruction, this is a book about agile methodologies, as seen through the looking glass of project management.

By John C. Goodpasture

By integrating the organizational environment that surrounds a project, this book presents a well-rounded knowledge of the theories, organizational issues, and human behavior needed to effectively manage real-world projects.

By Gary L. Richardson

Providing a contemporary set of tools, examples and tips, this comprehensive guide offers a succinct explanation of when, where, and how to use project management resources to enhance your work.

By Dragan Z. Milosevic, Russ J. Martinelli

Clearly illustrating effective project management practices, this book explains how to successfully incorporate Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) tools to reduce the possibility of failure in your next project.

By Christine B. Tayntor

This book will show you how to minimize project management failures and reveal the secrets of how to train an organization filled with "project-oriented thinkers."

By Bill Shackelford

Trainer and strategic global adviser Wes Balakian has created highly effective two-day, one-day, and half-day workshops that take the guesswork out of project management training.

By Wes Balakian

This book can be used as the textbook for graduate and undergraduate students in related majors, also a reference book to the practitioners, who are working on PM under Internet digital era.

By Dan Huang, Shaopei Lin

Interesting, enjoyable, and thought-provoking, this book provides the opportunity to strengthen your understanding of project management in real-world application, with questions, problems, and cases designed to enhance your critical thinking skills.

By Frank P. Saladis, Harold Kerzner

Discussing the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, this thorough guide offers clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling and control, which can pose particular challenges in engineering environments.

By Albert Lester

Discussing the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, this thorough guide offers clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling and control, which can pose particular challenges in engineering environments.

By Albert Lester

Reflecting new principles and strategies in team building, planning, estimating costs, managing project interfaces, and more, this book provides a step-by-step introduction to the tools and techniques necessary to successfully spearhead your next project.

By Gary R. Heerkens

Demonstrating techniques from simple charts to detailed computer applications, this reader-friendly, jargon-free book explains the entire project management process in great detail, and has earned the acclaimed status as a standard work for managers and students alike.

By Dennis Lock

Focusing on all facets of the steps needed to successfully manage a project - from planning and resources to budgeting and more, this book will also help those preparing to take the PMBOK(r) certification exams of the Project Management Institute.

By Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel, Jr.

This eighth edition updates the classic reference on project management theory and techniques within today's changing marketplace. A wealth of knowledge is put into this practical study guide that managers can rely on.

By Harold Kerzner

With plenty of case studies, as well as discussion and multiple-choice questions, this book gives students and professionals a profound understanding of project management with insights from one of the best-known and respected authorities on the subject.

By Harold Kerzner

Providing practical guidance on all aspects of project management (PM), this book features a streamlined approach to PM functions without stinting on detailed coverage of the tools and methods used at all stages of a project.

By Harold Kerzner

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Information Resources Management Association (IRMA)

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Information Resources Management Association (IRMA)

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Information Resources Management Association (IRMA)

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Information Resources Management Association (IRMA)

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article describes the "secret sauce" that bridges traditional project management training with Total Customer Experience (TCE).

By Mark S.Herzog

Providing general context for the definition, assessment and development of project manager competency, this book outlines the key dimensions and identifies those competencies that are most likely to impact project manager performance.

By Project Management Institute

Providing general context for the definition, assessment and development of project manager competency, this book outlines the key dimensions and identifies those competencies that are most likely to impact project manager performance.

By Project Management Institute, Inc.

Through interviews, surveys, and personality inventories from a sample of practitioners, this book investigates the professional development of project managers and reveals how learning experiences as well as personal characteristics comport with professional development.

By Chantal Savelsbergh, Henk Broekema, Liselore Havermans, Peter Storm

Presenting an opportunity to practice the common tasks project managers face in the real world, this step-by-step guide explores each phase of project management, and includes in-depth instructions for handling the tasks associated with each phase.

By Linda Kretz Zaval, Terri Wagner

Here's a quick and practical guide to applying the disciplines of proven change management practices. It will help you establish effective guidelines for dealing with change and provide you the flexibility to minimize disruptions and derailments.

By Claudia Baca

Project managers are usually aware of the importance of planning but may not have the time or know-how to develop a full-blown strategy. This text is a quick, practical guide to applying the disciplines of proven planning practices.

By Catherine A. Tomczyk

Use this quick, practical book to anticipate, prevent, and alleviate major project risks. This is a guide to applying the disciplines of proven risk management practices without the rigor of complex processes.

By Kim Heldman

Lifting the lid on the role of the project manager to tell you what it's really like, this highly accessible guide looks at the different options open to you for growing a successful (and well-paid) career.

By Elizabeth Harrin

Based on extensive research, online surveys, and interviews with senior executives and project managers from six countries, this book maps out a model for advancement for program and project managers, and contributes new thinking on their emerging potential as senior executives.

By Jean-Pierre Debourse, Russell D. Archibald

Featuring candid interviews with notable project managers, this in-depth book provides tips to win assignments to manage career-advancing projects and ace deliveries, and explains how to avoid pitfalls and recover from operational failures and managerial mistakes.

By Bruce Harpham

Authored by world-renowned project management experts and illustrated with handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results.

By David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland

Containing an applications-oriented understanding of the issues you must confront and important tips for passing the Project Management Professional exam, this guide offers strategies for dealing effectively with team members, clients, senior managers and other key stakeholders.

By James P. Lewis

Including checklists and forms to help project managers plan projects, this important resource examines how personal planning time relates to success and explains how the planning phase impacts final value to customers, stakeholders, and the company.

By Pedro Serrador

This book makes planning methods and tools available to project managers at all levels easy to understand and use. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Gregory T. Haugan

This real-world guide blends practical experience with academic rigor to help you gain a deeper understanding of best practice techniques for project success. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Parviz F. Rad, Vittal S. Anantatmula

The go-to guide for getting projects done on time and on budget-revised and updated with a sophisticated image program and contemporary examples.

By James P. Lewis

Providing a framework for solving political issues through the effective management of complex relationships, this book's structured approach will raise awareness and improve your ability to manage issues in the workplace.

By Nita A. Martin

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Luca Romano

With theoretical background and analysis of the theories presented, this book aims to provide a mechanism to determine the individual and cumulative contribution of portfolio components to strategic objectives so that the right decisions can be made regarding those components.

By Clive N. Enoch

This book does an excellent job explaining the rationale for taking a different approach to assessing project value and then walks the reader through how to apply it, measure, and track to ensure real cash benefits are realized.

By Reginald Tomas Lee

Whether you will be commissioning, running, involved in the delivery of, or are just interested in the possibilities that program and portfolio management can bring, this hands-on guide will give you a good understanding of the subject.

By John Carroll

Offering a specific, step-by-step project quality management process, this book provides techniques and tools organized and explained according to their application within this quality process that can be applied immediately to improve project implementation and customer satisfaction in any project context.

By Kenneth H. Rose

This third edition has been updated and enhanced to also meet the needs of trainers, college instructors, and their students.

By Kenneth H. Rose

Learn how to save your project and possibly your career! This informative and concise book will guide you step-by-step through an effective intervention, allowing you to salvage more than you might think of a project's deliverables and goals.

By Joe Zucchero, Sanjiv Purba

Providing insights into the best ways to implement the traditional techniques of risk management, this book explores new methods that can help modern organizations build their culture, improve financial performance, and achieve greater success in all of their projects.

By Michael M. Bissonette

Introducing the concept of Total Risk Management as the key method for reducing risk, this report explains the crucial connection between project management (the job) and commercial management (the contract) and the need for running them in tandem.

By Tim Boyce

Containing numerous instructional examples, this guide offers a clear understanding of the activities, concepts, techniques, and tools of project scheduling and cost control that can be applied to any industry.

By James C. Taylor

Including an Appendix with new case studies, expanded assessment tools, and templates, this definitive guide shows how project sponsors and project managers can develop the skills they need to manage successful projects.

By Alfonso Bucero, Randall L. Englund

Including exercises, examples and case histories from the real world of projects, this essential guide will help you ensure that your organization is "doing the right things" as well as "doing things right."

By David West

Going beyond the operational aspects of projects to the strategy that frames them, this book describes the philosophy of taking a strategic approach to project management and explains why adopting a strategic perspective is important.

By Diane H. Parente, William H.A. Johnson

Managing projects across an organization is complex. This book guides you through each twist and turn in the project lifecycle using Project System in SAP S/4HANA. Start by setting up the master data that project management depends on. Then configure and run planning functions for project logistics and financials.

By Andrea Langlotz, Mario Franz

Offering a practical approach to managing projects successfully in the current business environment, this book includes concepts, processes, techniques, and tools to manage and enhance performance of project teams and projects.

By Vittal S. Anantatmula

Introducing the Flow Framework-a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery, this book will enable your company's evolution from project-oriented dinosaur to product-centric innovator that thrives in the Age of Software.

By Mik Kersten

Presenting a practical approach to real options valuation to make it easily understandable by practitioners and senior management, this book helps you minimize upfront investment risks, exercise flexibility in decision making, and maximize the returns.

By Chandra Papudesu, Prasad Kodukula

With over 40 illustrative process diagrams, this book describes project management methods, tips, and techniques, teaching readers the practical knowledge required to manage projects hands-on from scratch, and delivering the completed and tested product or service to the client.

By Daniel Epstein, Rich Maltzman

This book explains about strategic management.

By James Marion

Explaining the key leadership models of managerial, intellectual and emotional leadership, this book shows how they can be applied within projects to lead processes, functions and people, and ensure an ethical and inclusive approach within projects and programs.

By J. Rodney Turner, Ralf Müller

Giving managers an integrative approach to project, program, and change management, this book describes the differences between change in projects versus programs with case studies in both areas and the different life cycles.

By Lorenz Gareis, Roland Gareis

Helpful to those tasked with managing complex environments, this insightful book introduces a new way of looking at projects and fostering the culture needed to achieve sustainable results.

By Francesco Varanini, Walter Ginevri (eds)

Going beyond a simple review of tools and techniques, this book illustrates how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic organizational transformation.

By Gary Klein, James Jiang, Wayne Huang

Combining the wit of 'Fortune' magazine with the sophistication and rigor of an academic contribution to the 'Project Management Journal,' this guide explores real world data from 52 U.S. corporations and finds the key to high return on investment.

By Justin Reginato, William Ibbs

The classic guide that taught a generation of investors how to build high-yield quant portfolios, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management has been fully updated with new data, research, information, and insights, along with the latest, most powerful quantitative tools and methods.

By Daehwan Kim, Ludwig B. Chincarini

This book combines theoretical and practical applications and takes project managers through the most important quantitative methods, integrates them, and illustrates interrelationships.

By John Goodpasture

This book addresses the use of quantitative tools to support general project management.

By David L. Olson

Offering a fun, quick approach to broaden your practical project management knowledge, this book allows you to test your knowledge and expand your skills through story questions about interesting and mind-opening situations faced every day by project managers in the field.

By Barbee Davis

Aimed at the new wave of professionals who are making Project Management (PM) their career of choice, this book explores the history and evolution of PM, the real world challenges, and a look at the future.

By Peter Taylor

Presenting the skills and strategies that every project manager needs to successfully complete projects in virtually any field, this thoughtful guide shows you how to become more knowledgeable and efficient in the real world of project management.

By Richard Perrin

With a focus on the value and benefits of project management to the organization, this book is written for current and prospective leaders and executives who want to understand the role and importance of project management.

By Carl Marnewick

Developed by leading experts in the field, this guide will give you the tools you need to excel in requirements development and management - components of the larger field of business analysis and a critical competence for project, program and portfolio management.

By Project Management Institute

Placing great emphasis on the human aspects of any project, this practical, realistic guide provides a flexible, hands-on and innovative approach to developing and managing program, project and system requirements at different levels of complexity.

By Mario Kossmann

Providing nearly 70 real-world examples of what works, what doesn't, and why, this inspiring book reveals an in-depth, start-to-finish process for accurately assessing what is wrong and a clear plan of action for fixing the problem.

By Todd C. Williams

A definitive book for project managers looking to establish credibility and control, this groundbreaking guide supplies a start-to-finish system for getting successful project results from cross-functional, outsourced, and other types of teams.

By Tom Kendrick

Presenting a thoroughly researched investigation of project stakeholder theory, methods, and practices, this book shows practitioners and project teams how to better position themselves with diverse stakeholder groups to support the creation of shared project benefits.

By Claudia Ringhofer, Martina Huemann, Pernille Eskerod

Exploring the concepts associated with higher level risks and how those risks can impact success, this book presents a practical, adaptable risk management approach that enables dramatically improved command and control of risks from an organizational perspective.

By Andy Jordan

Designed to change the way you think about and understand the work breakdown structure (WBS), this friendly, easy-to-read guide will help you learn the secrets to mastering the WBS and obtain smarter project results starting now.

By Liliana Buchtik

Subject matter experts (SMEs) play a valuable role in any learning program, but working with them is not always easy. This book explains how training developers can cultivate a productive relationship with their SMEs.

By Sarah Wakefield

Enabling project managers to determine the most appropriate methodologies and leadership styles for their projects, this book shows how to analyze a project based on its physical characteristics, team behavior, enterprise environment, and market environment.

By Oliver F. Lehmann

Packed with practical advice to help you manage time, cost, people, risk, quality, and integration, this valuable guide shows you how to write a product description, prepare a risk response plan, manage conflicts, and more.

By Joseph Phillips, Teresa Luckey

This book analyses the relationship between stakeholder engagement practices and organizational sustainability across sectors and disciplines.

By Aimee L. Franklin

Including case studies, practical tips, and supporting tools, this straightforward book focuses on how to engage your stakeholders in the right way, and keep them engaged throughout the course of your program.

By Amy Baugh

This book provides a stakeholder-centered analysis of projects and explains which identification, analysis, communication, and engagement models are relevant to different types of projects.

By Louise M. Worsley

With advice given for project management competency on utilizing input from customers, employees, and processes, this book describes implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal combination of projects and other work.

By Laurence J. Laning, Timothy J. Kloppenborg

Offering a fresh approach specifically developed for today's challenges, this book will help you multiply your ability to execute new ideas and advance your own career in the process, whether you're a seasoned pro or a beginner.

By Terry Schmidt

This book is an indispensable volume for leaders and workers seeking to transform their approach to planning, driving, and executing projects in their organizations.

By Terry Schmidt

Demonstrating how to transform project management failure and sub-optimization into strategic and financial project management success, this book shows how to establish effective value management plans to ensure that all project objectives can be met or exceeded.

By Marc Resch

Based on expert practitioners' contributions from across the globe, this insightful book offers modern experiences, best practices, and tools for individuals and teams working in projects spanning diverse environments in developing economies.

By Corlane Barclay, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson (eds)

Considering the strategic level risks that organizations face when taking on projects of different types, this book shows how the use of a project typology can guide project risk management by identifying shared common risks.

By Elaine Harris

Detailing the powerful process of strategic project management, this book outlines effective management of complex projects by combining traditional business analysis with project management techniques.

By Tony Grundy

Clarifying the nuances of complexity theory, this unique resource will help you focus your strategic energies on the right things and arm you and your team with the skills, tools, and techniques needed to succeed in today's program environment.

By Robert Lee Gordon, Wanda Curlee

Covering the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion, this essential guide contains tried-and-tested techniques covering project conception and start-up, how to manage stake holders, effective risk management, project planning, launch and execution.

By Trevor L. Young

Aligned with the Fifth edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r) Guide), this guide covers the fundamentals, focusing on practical tools and techniques students can apply immediately to complete projects on time, on budget, and on target.

By Michael S. Dobson

Teaching you how to use proven strategies in large or small projects to clarify the objectives, avoid serious errors of omission, and eliminate costly mistakes, this concise course guide focuses on skills you can apply immediately to complete projects on time, on budget, and on target

By Larry Richman

Helping teams quickly learn scrum project management and adapt it to their unique situations, this book illustrates key techniques for maintaining a team's productivity and enthusiasm for a project across its lifetime in fun, engaging, and slightly irreverent ways.

By Noah Dyer

This book provides the approach that significantly increases an organization's ability to achieve its strategy.

By Frank R Parth

Presented in the form of overlays, this practical book offers a unique approach to accommodating the three new constraints of population change, climate change, and energy resources as impacts on programs and portfolios.

By Gregory T. Haugan

Offering insights and access to critical resources and tools to create, propose, execute, and evaluate team development plans, this comprehensive resource provides the planning materials required to increase team collaboration and productivity in a global workplace.

By Gail Levitt

Presenting forms to help you manage all aspects of your training project and templates that help you deliver business results and business success, this book provides helpful information to guide you as you institute an information system for your training department.

By Willis H. Thomas

Asking tough questions about the current state of project management, this cutting-edge book provides groundbreaking techniques to achieve excellence in project leadership that can lead to six sigma-type results or failure-free projects.

By Adil F. Dalal

Through anecdotes and case studies, this book will show you how to combat the negative impact of project management sins, probe their manifestations and consequences for projects, and identify solutions.

By Management Concepts

Packed with models, case studies, and in-depth solutions, this trusted guide helps you master the discipline, overcome obstacles, and fast track your projects and career.

By Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin (eds), Paul C. Dinsmore

Compiling essays and advice from the field's top professionals, as well as case studies and solutions to specific project management dilemmas, this guide is an essential reference to the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master.

By Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, Paul C. Dinsmore

Whether your job entails running small projects from a home-based business or managing large projects as a part of an international supply chain, this book outlines a well-indexed strategy to capture, categorize, and control lessons based on best practices.

By Willis H. Thomas

Providing an easy-to-follow, systematic approach to conducting Lessons Learned on a project, this straightforward book covers concepts that are applicable to all types of organizations that implement projects and need to conduct Lessons Learned.

By Willis H. Thomas

Combining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson teaches you the fundamentals of project management.

By Jeff Davidson

Drawing on his 45 years of professional experience as a PM/BA to shed light on the similarities and differences of the roles and responsibilities of a Business Analyst and Project Manager, author Robert Wysocki helps readers determine when they need a BA, a PM, or both.

By Robert K. Wysocki

This book distills the world of software projects into simple terms and relatable metaphors for even the most technically adverse reader. Real-life examples, entertaining analogies, and hand-drawn illustrations will stick with readers throughout their own software projects, bolstering their success. Business requirements, use cases, process flows-the list goes on.

By Jonathan Peter Crosby

Aligned with common business practices, this book demonstrates how to develop project plans, keep on schedule, manage budgets, maintain areas of responsibility, and evaluate a project's progress from concept to completion.

By Gerard M. Hill

Helping you determine if a project management office (PMO) is right for your organization, this book explains how to use the PMO as a business integrator to influence project outcomes in a manner that serves both project and business management interests.

By Gerard M. Hill

Investigating the use and usefulness of project management practices, tools, and techniques, this book examines practice variations among organizational, project management, and project contexts and performance to contribute to a better understanding of project management practice.

By Brian Hobbs, Claude Besner

The author of this text identifies the common stumbling blocks that threaten all CRM projects, regardless of vendor, product or technology, and proposes practical solutions to get around them.

By Michael Gentle

Structured as a novel, this book provides real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles and teaches data-driven methodologies which allow managers to plan, monitor, and control projects while delivering them on time and within budget.

By Mario Vanhoucke

With a well-balanced mix of case stories, examples, processes, and techniques, this book offers practical strategies, skills, and tools to help project managers diagnose and solve their toughest people problems.

By Zachary Wong

Practical, easy-to-use, and deeply thorough, this book presents the cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of the field's leading experts, delivered in short, lively segments that address common management issues. Brief descriptions of important concepts, tips on real-world applications, and compact case studies illustrate the most sought-after skills and the pitfalls you should watch out for.

By Eric Verzuh

Offering comprehensive instruction on how to deliver on time and on budget, this completely updated guide to project management provides the step-by-step advice you need to find the right sponsor, clarify objectives, and set realistic schedules and budget projections.

By Eric Verzuh

Taking you on the entire journey, from strategically creating a program culture, to building effective relationships, and to analyzing ways of accomplishing your program objectives, this go-to guide supplies you with the insight and tools you need to establish processes that ensure the success of your project managers--and increase the profitability of your products and services.

By James T. Brown

As part of its ongoing commitment to advancing the profession of project management, Project Management Institute (PMI) funded a multi-part study of the leadership characteristics and traits that are shared by successful project leaders.

By Jianguo Chen, Qian Shi

This book comprehensively assesses the growing importance of project data for project scheduling, risk analysis and control. It discusses the relevance of project data for both researchers and professionals, and illustrates why the collection, processing and use of such data is not as straightforward as most people think.

By Mario Vanhoucke

Explaining how to set and meet ambitious goals for you, your team, and your stakeholders, this book describes how to listen actively to influence others and details how you can build partnerships that can pay dividends for a lifetime.

By Alfonso Bucero

Written in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, this information-packed resource covers all aspects of managing an IT project, from initial organizational issues to closeout.

By David Pratt

How to effectively manage multiple, complex projects.

By Michael R. Dobson

Including a plethora of examples drawn from the personal experiences of its many well-respected and award-winning contributors, this book breaks down Lean concepts to their simplest terms to make everything as clear as possible for Lean practitioners.

By Charles Protzman, et al.

The book provides an overview of core classes taught in most MBA programs, but in a way that makes the material practical for project practitioners.

By Bradley D Clark

Examining every aspect of profitable project management, this concise book features guidelines for creating effective project teams, techniques for managing project risk without negatively impacting performance or results, tips for measuring performance, and more.

By Helen Cooke, Karen Tate

Exploring the multiple facets of innovation project management, this book combines research experience, in cooperation with practitioners, and a theoretical, transversal and global overview inspired from different research streams.

By Sandrine Fernez-Walch

From how to make a smooth career transition, to how to determine a consulting fee, to how consultants inadvertently create a bad reputation, this authentic and practical book covers everything you need to know to thrive and flourish in this competitive field.

By Elaine Biech

Offering step-by-step instructions on how to successfully navigate the crucial first year of business, this book provides new and aspiring consultants with a framework to move into consulting, identify their niche, develop a business plan, and create a marketing plan.

By Elaine Biech

This book recognizes that and explains how an impactful portfolio is attainable using a back-to-basics approach. It also walks readers through the actual implementation of each portfolio component using a popular platform called Smartsheet.

By Murali Kulathumani MBA

Including references throughout to the affiliated sections in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r)), this practical guide demonstrates how to efficiently and effectively communicate essential elements of a project's status.

By Clark A. Campbell, Mick Campbell

A valuable and time-saving resource for all IT managers, this book covers vital new topics, including working with outside consultants, special information for CIOs, ERP project management, ISO 9000 certification, and much more.

By Clark A. Campbell

Rich with tools, templates, and teaching, this refreshingly clear book describes how to combine the OPPM with the Toyota A3 report to create an enhanced, integrated management tool.

By Clark A. Campbell, Mike Collins

An ultimate tool for beleaguered project managers who understand the value of simplicity, this guide shows how to reduce any project into a simple, one-page document perfect for communicating essential details to upper management, and tracking progress.

By Clark A. Campbell

This Handbook explores the progress made in international business strategy theory and practice in the last few decades.

By Alain Verbeke (ed), Irina Surdu, Kamel Mellahi, Klaus Meyer, Rajneesh Narula

This book postulates that composite projects are increasingly used to meet the demands of rapid business change. However, they are largely unrecognized as a separate organizational category of project, with particular characteristics, management needs, and risks.

By Andy Coaton, Stuart Copeland

A comprehensive resource for those who want to learn more about Project Management.

By Project Management Institute

Providing practical strategies, methods, case studies, and thought leadership to serve the needs of public and private sector organizations of any size, this book provides insight into practices that successful PMOs have employed to return direct value to the organizations that they serve.

By Craig Letavec, Dennis Bolles (eds)

Filled with flowcharts and graphs that illustrate process input, tools, techniques, output, and interaction, this guide covers nine knowledge areas and 42 processes from the actual examination, and contains more than 500 questions, memorization games, study tips, equations, and more.

By Rosaldo de Jesus Nocêra

Providing readers with actionable skills that can be applied in real-world business situations, this book explains cutting edge Design-Build best practices and tricks of the trade for various types of civil engineering endeavors and projects.

By Sherif Hashem

Helping project managers transform into proactive, accountable project leaders, this book explains what good project leadership looks like and explains how to make the transition using concrete tools and strategies.

By Susanne Madsen

This book explains how to generate positive results for projects and clients while growing as a leader and empowering the team to fully contribute.

By Susanne Madsen

This book is for everyone who wants to sharpen their professional skills and mental models to stay relevant.

By Carsten H. Laugesen

Including key definitions as well as sample forms, this helpful guide introduces readers to the business reasons for having a centralized project department and explains the PMO's functions and how to set up and run a PMO.

By Lia Tjahjana, Mohsin Habib, Paul Dwyer

Providing step-by-step instructions to those who want to implement and manage an effective PMO, this book is a guide to satisfying the need for improved coordination, standardization, optimization, and management of the practice of project management.

By Craig J. Letavec

Project leaders and senior managers in all business and technical disciplines will benefit from the insightful guidance this book offers and better project outcomes will result.

By Colin D. Ellis

Including practical tips on obtaining the PMP and related certifications, this concise, easy-to-use Q&A reference provides you with the tools you need to improve project performance and achieve high-quality, low-risk results immediately.

By Jeff Furman

Offering tools, questions, reviews, guiding practices, and exercises that will help you build your roadmap to project management and leadership success, this workbook presents a proven six-step method designed to help you understand and articulate what you want to achieve.

By Susanne Madsen

Helping professionals achieve a high-level of communications expertise, this updated resource explains how to energize projects, create momentum, and achieve success by talking and listening to staff members.

By Carl Pritchard

With contributions from top experts in academia, consulting, and private industry, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the technical, organizational, administrative, and interpersonal elements of successful project management.

By Jeffrey K. Pinto (ed)

Containing hundreds of practical examples to enhance your understanding of project management, the book skillfully guides you through the four critical phases of the project life cycle: initiation, planning, execution and closure.

By Jason Westland

By examining how PMOs exist today, this resource addresses the roles that PMOs play in organizations, and provides valuable insights for better creating, structuring and governing PMOs.

By Brian Hobbs, Monique Aubry

Whether your organization is large or small, this guide can assist you in implementing and managing all the details that go into a succesful project.

By Jolyon Hallows

This resource is a practical guide for understanding fundamental project management issues and implementing workable solutions and covers everything from estimates, quality control, and communications, to time-, risk-, and human resource management.

By Marina N. Grashina, Michael W. Newell

Based on the approaches used by successful project managers in many fields, this step-by-step guide presents proven project management techniques in an accessible, easy-to-apply format for managing every conceivable project step.

By Tom Kendrick

Complete with checklists, charts, examples, and tools for easy implementation, this handy guide is filled with step-by-step guidance that will enable managers to get complex projects completed on time and on budget.

By Tom Kendrick

Addressing the unique difficulties involved in day-to-day project management communication, this time-saving resource provides the understanding to harness the power of everyday communication to manage projects effectively.

By Shankar Jha

Describing the whole process of contracting for goods and services, this practical guide details the key topics that are necessary for success, such as contract strategy, contract types, contract law and evaluating tenders.

By Garth Ward

Tomorrow's resource for managing projects effectively on issues critical today.

By Dennis J. Cohen, Robert J. Graham

Providing a realistic and best-practice description of the entire life cycle of the IDIQ contract, this book offers you the "inside advisor" you need to help you through the pragmatics issues of clients', performers', and bosses' expectations.

By Mark E. Salesky

Containing practical techniques and practices that will help you facilitate your meetings more effectively, this book will help you to transform them into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.

By Jan Means, Michael S. Spivey, Tammy Adams

Offering a straightforward and easy-to-implement system for project success - in any business, this book will show you how to define, plan, and control your strategic projects for superior performance that leads to real competitive advantage.

By Clinton M. Padgett

Providing practical guidance, supported by numerous mini case studies, this engaging book brings to life both the benefits of project risk management when effectively applied and the ramifications when it is misunderstood or receives scant attention.

By Robert J. Chapman

Presenting a clear path for project, program, and portfolio managers to lead others within a matrix environment regardless of the industry or complexity, this book offers proven strategies and behaviors that you can use to successfully deliver your projects, programs, and portfolios.

By Steve Tkalcevich

Providing readers with a critical foundation for how to differentiate the management of project risks and uncertainties, this book shows how to differentiate project success from project value and how to clearly identify the key elements of project risk, uncertainty, and value opportunity.

By Barbara Edington, Thomas G. Lechler, Ting Gao Stevens

A no-nonsense guide to social intelligence for project managers, this book gives you a step-by-step process for building a bulletproof project team - no matter what gaps exist in personality, geography, culture, or communication style.

By Kim Wasson

Earned Value Management (EVM), known as "management with the lights on", is based on the principle that past patterns and trends can indicate future conditions. EVM helps you clearly and objectively see where your project is headed compared to where it is supposed to be.

By PMI Project Management Institute

Although useful for any organization that is seeking to better meet its strategic objectives, this standard is particularly beneficial for organizations that do not have a unified project management approach.

By Project Management Institute

Describing the principles that drive accepted good portfolio management practices in today's organizations, this book also expands the description of portfolio management to reflect its relation to organizational project management and the organization.

By Project Management Institute

The definitive guide for individuals and organizations seeking to mature their program management knowledge, this book provides clear, complete, relevant information generally recognized as good practices for most programs, most of the time.

By Project Management Institute

By clarifying the supporting processes that complete the delivery of programs in an organizational setting, this guide provides a detailed understanding of program management and promotes efficient and effective communication and coordination among various project management groups.

By Project Management Institute

This edition is designed to address practitioners' current and future needs and to help them be more proactive, innovative and nimble in enabling desired project outcomes.

By Project Management Institute

Providing practical guidance to help you move from project manager to service-based project leader, this book details a framework for developing and refining leadership skills, and explains how to build a leadership competency pyramid and then execute a self-directed plan for building leadership competencies.

By Jack Ferraro

Providing readers with an assessment model for measuring PMO practice maturity, this concise, easy-to-read book features reporting on cutting-edge research on the status and roles of today's PMO, highlights best practices, and includes case studies of award-winning PMOs.

By J. Kent Crawford

From the novice to the most experienced senior project manager, this text will help you explore the triangle of time, cost, and performance. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Michael S. Dobson

While managing up is an incredibly valuable skill for virtually any type of boss, this book 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.

By Dana Brownlee

A valuable resource for companies considering a VPMO and those already operating one, this book offers best practices for successful virtual projects and the most effective ways to create and implement a PMO in a virtual environment.

By Robert L. Gordon, Wanda Curlee

Explaining the "traditional" project management activities of control, risk, time, cost, and quality, this book details the principles of project time and cost control and offers a detailed review of critical chain project management.

By Jeffrey K. Pinto, Peter W. G Morris

Learn how to stop pouring vast sums of money into technology projects that don't have a lasting impact by closing the communication gap between IT and leadership.

By Bob Lewis, Dave Kaiser

By delving into the common issues surrounding the success of a Project Management Office, this book discusses the technical approach with the most promise, and the hazards involved.

By Michael Hatfield

Drawing on the latest research in the areas of project management, complexity theory and systems thinking, this book provides a ready reference for understanding and managing the increasing complexity of projects and programs.

By Julien Pollack, Kaye Remington

Comprehensive and sufficiently wide in scope, this cookbook-style guide is a unique reference for those wanting to learn about or who are active in the fields of consulting, project management and problem solving in general.

By Nicolai Andler

Complete with real-world success stories that facilitate comprehension, this detailed, innovative guide illustrates methods that can help to minimize distractions and keep your team focused.

By Jon M. Quigley, Kim H. Pries

Presenting case studies from multiple industry sectors, this book illustrates a tested program management roadmap along with the supporting comprehensive frameworks to successfully execute business transformation programs, formulated strategies, and strategic initiatives.

By Satish P. Subramanian

Turn your strategy into business reality with proven project management and leadership best practices. This book takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it-with skill, care, and expertise.

By Duane Petersen

Including learning objectives, diagrams, activities, highlighted key points, and annotated further reading, this unique guide balances the reflective practice necessary to develop analytical skills and the knowledge needed to utilize different tools and techniques in real world situations.

By Gary Straw

Presenting techniques used by successful business analysts, this thorough text explains the steps necessary to create customized elicitation activities for the unique needs of each project.

By Kathleen B. Hass, Rosemary Hossenlopp

Combining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson teaches you about Gantt charts, PERT charts, and CPM charts, why they are so useful, and ways to keep projects from getting complex.

By Jeff Davidson

Using a variety of examples and case studies, this book authoritatively walks you through the value optimization process so you can consider value from the perspective of functions and how they are performed relative to cost, time, and risk.

By Robert B. Stewart

Containing helpful illustrations to clarify complex concepts and processes throughout, this book will help you discover the tools you need to ensure that projects deliver true value upon their completion.

By Frank P. Saladis, Harold Kerzner

Exploring the impact of visuals on cognition and communication in project portfolio decisions, this book aims to increase project awareness about how important visuals can be and to provide guidance on how visuals can be used and designed to enhance business.

By Joana Geraldi, Mario Arlt

Taking you through everything you need to know to run a project from start to finish, this indispensable guide explains goal-setting, estimations, how to get things back on track after they've gone wrong, how to track big projects, and more.

By Fergus O'Connell

With ample tips, tricks, and best practices, all richly illustrated with real case studies, this unique and pragmatic guide helps you understand and successfully handle project management, and covers practical ways to solve problems you'll typically face when managing actual projects.

By Bonnie Biafore, Teresa Stover

This valuable guidebook provides all the information project management beginners need, from typical corporate hierarchy to reading requirements, developing project plans, and executing and closing the project.

By Ronald B. Cagle

Regardless of where you are today, this step-by-step implementation guide will prepare you to join or even lead a team in visualizing, building, and validating a single component to an enterprise data warehouse.

By Ralph Hughes

Eschewing long-winded "agile philosophy" in favor of a formally prioritized process, this book serves as a distilled learning guide for managing technical resources in a manner that directly boosts your bottom line.

By Bill Holtsnider, George Stragand, Joseph Gee, Tom Wheeler

Using real-world examples, this straightforward book will help you to understand the elements and processes that can be found repeatedly in good project documentation and which can be shaped and designed to address your individual circumstance.

By Andreas Rüping

Filled with straightforward and easy to learn methods to help deal with project development problems, this book is a plain speaking guide on how to work with Agile development teams to achieve phenomenal product success.

By Greg Cohen

Complete with a list of agile training providers, this book will help certified project managers make a smooth transition to agile project management and will provide newcomers with the basic knowledge needed to pass the PMI-ACP exam, the first time around.

By Denise Canty

Agile principles and values transform the way organisations carry out business and respond to change.

By Lynda Girvan, Simon Girvan

Bridging the gap between traditional auditing approaches and the requirements of Agile methodologies, this book tells Agile teams what auditors and risk professionals need, and the sort of questions they are likely to ask.

By Christopher Wright

Providing a handy description of what Kaizen is and how it translates into a constant quest for performance improvement, this book describes principles and offers tools to unleash the real power of Kaizen in any type of organization, independent from specific markets, products, or technologies.

By Ángel Medinilla

From planning a new deployment through to day-to-day maintenance, this soup-to-nuts guide teaches you to manage your Office 365 implementations with confidence and shows you how agile techniques can help you get to grips with a constantly evolving platform.

By Haniel Croitoru

Developed as a resource to understand, evaluate, and use agile and hybrid agile approaches, this book provides guidance on when, where, and how to apply agile approaches and offers practical tools for practitioners and organizations wanting to increase agility.

By Project Management Institute

Containing all the terms and concepts needed for those planning to take the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam, this guide will also help new and experienced project managers, stakeholders, and students of the discipline to proactively prepare for and ensure their future success.

By Barbee Davis

With an aim to provide a sense of common purpose and collaboration between the project delivery and the organization, this book offers project management office (PMO) executives practical information to promote enterprise Agile for business value compatibility.

By Milan Frankl, Paul Paquette

Placing all the tools and techniques in your reach so you can manage your projects in the most efficient way possible, this step-by-step guide offers a practical context for understanding and applying Agile techniques, moving from theory into actual practice.

By Mark C. Layton

Providing a simple, step-by-step guide to Agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques, this book shows product and project managers how to complete and implement projects more quickly than ever.

By Mark C. Layton, Steven J. Ostermiller

This book guides you through how to apply agile concepts to your projects and changes to agile approaches and new information related to the methods of managing an agile project.

By Mark C. Layton

An essential guide for anyone new to agile projects and a valuable source of inspiration for the more experienced, this book explains the key principles, techniques and processes of agile project management, working through an entire project, explaining the main activities and deliverables.

By David Morris, John Carroll

Filled with real-world examples and case studies, this book presents success stories as well as major blunders to help you avoid many of the pitfalls that other organizations have experienced while governing their strategic initiatives.

By Soren Lyngso

A key resource for projects that want to combine the best of established results and agile innovations, this exhaustive, unbiased book offers both a thorough descriptive presentation of agile techniques and a perceptive analysis of their benefits and limitations.

By Bertrand Meyer

Providing tools to assess your organizational culture, structure and dynamic in order to determine if Agile methodologies are suitable to your specific needs, this guide presents practical, proven ways to introduce, incorporate and leverage Agile methodologies to maximize your business returns.

By Jamie Lynn Cooke

Providing a list of principles, questions, and exercises, this book is required reading for anyone managing individuals in small to medium-sized businesses, large corporations, non-profit organizations, and government offices.

By Michael Edmondson

From overarching policy to day-to-day procedure, this invaluable case story provides a clear example of how an agile organization is developed, giving readers a foundation upon which to implement similar changes in their own organization.

By Amandine Savall, Christopher G. Worley, Marc Bonnet, Véronique Zardet

Drawing on the authors' experience helping more than 100 teams transition to agile, this book presents eleven powerful techniques for rapidly gaining substantial value from agile, making agile methods stick, and launching a "virtuous circle" of continuous improvement.

By Leslie Ekas, Scott Will

Providing the tools you need to meet your customers' needs efficiently and cost-effectively, this clear, practical guide presents a 12-step plan to help you implement Agile development methods for maximum impact and business success.

By Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this informative book will help every project manager translate the PMBOK(r) Guide's tools and techniques into actionable, commonsense approaches to managing a project.

By Frank P. Saladis, Harold Kerzner

Providing generalized project management guidance applicable to most projects most of the time, this book includes discussion of emerging trends and developments in the construction industry that affect the application of project management to construction projects.

By Project Management Institute

In the form of an adaptive complex project framework, this detailed book offers a proven solution to managing any project that must succeed in the face of organizational complexity and market uncertainty.

By Robert K. Wysocki

Fully updated to cover the new PMBOK(r) 5, this comprehensive guide authored by well-known project management expert Robert Wysocki examines traditional, agile, and extreme project management techniques; the Enterprise Project Management Model; and Kanban and Scrumban methodologies.

By Robert K. Wysocki

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated

By Robert K. Wysocki

Providing the essential knowledge to use VSTS/TFS effectively to empower your Agile teams, this book offers a deep analysis into issues Agile teams may face and how to overcome them by adopting and implementing the proper tools.

By Chaminda Chandrasekara, Sanjaya Yapa

Whether you're an experienced marketing manager updating your skill set or a newcomer looking to gain a foothold in the current marketplace, this one-of-a-kind resource reveals the parallels between marketing and software development - and shows how marketers can borrow and adapt successful ideas from software management to lead marketing more effectively in a digital world.

By Scott Brinker

Authored by an experienced practitioner and trainer, this step-by-step guide breaks down the PRINCE2 methodology into bite-size chunks so you will be able to obtain the best possible results from all your projects.

By Susan Tuttle

Explaining what knowledge transfer is and why it is critical to organizations' resilience and agility, this book details ways to develop and strengthen an organization's ability to effectively transfer and manage knowledge.

By Chris Cancialosi

Presenting a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset, this book will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create and sustain strong agile teams, and is written for the developers, project managers, product owners, and ScrumMasters, who do most of the legwork in getting agile up and running.

By Doug Rose

Instead of the traditional Agile and DevOps approaches that focus on improving the effectiveness of teams, this thorough book targets the coordination of work across teams in large organizations-an improvement that executives are uniquely positioned to make.

By Gary Gruver, Tommy Mouser

Packed with practical advice, examples, guides, worksheets, diagrams, and metrics, this book presents a system for analyzing work and selecting the ideal combination of cost-effective resources-employees, consultants, contractors, temporary workers, vendors-to accomplish it.

By James Graber, Neil McCormick, William J. Rothwell

Including many cases taken from real-world companies illustrating good and bad agile implementation, this book helps project managers think outside the box by presenting a deep exploration of agile principles, methodologies, and practices.

By Charles G. Cobb

Covering all essential processes tested by the Project Management Institute, this in-depth book offers extensive review exercises, hundreds of practice exercises, a diagnostic and two full-length practices exams, and experience-based tips to maximize your score.

By Klaus Nielsen

Packed with everything you need to learn from both syllabi, as well as good advice on revision techniques and plenty of example exam questions, this book is your complete guide to preparing for-and passing-the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner exams.

By Nick Graham

Featuring more than 240 accurate practice questions with in-depth answer explanations, this comprehensive book offers 100% coverage of all current exam objectives and shows, step-by-step, how to successfully set up and configure an Agile framework-based project.

By Joseph Phillips

An all-in-one package for comprehensive exam preparation, this up-to-date guide is fully aligned with the latest version of the exam, featuring coverage of 100 percent of the exam domains.

By J. Ashley Hunt

The book helps you prepare for the exam, and it will continue to serve project managers as an on-the-job reference book.

By Kim Heldman

This book guides you through Project Management Professional (PMP) exam.

By Kim Heldman

Expanding on the Earned Value Management (EVM) information in the PMBOK(r) Guide, this valuable, detailed book will provide you with greater return on your project, and results that will directly benefit your organization.

By Project Management Institute

This book addresses a range of implementation scenarios, including PRINCE2 organisations that want to implement PRINCE2 Agile to get the benefits of Agile methods in their existing governance framework.

By Jamie Lynn Cooke

Explaining how the structured, management-driven PRINCE2 project governance framework is able to work cohesively with team-driven, quality-focused, responsive Agile methods, this guide clearly discusses how these approaches combine to provide the governance, due diligence and accountability that senior management requires, as well as the responsiveness and flexibility that project delivery teams need in order to do their jobs most effectively.

By Jamie Lynn Cooke

Offering practical and easy-to-understand advice on using PRINCE2, this comprehensive guide will help you divide your project into manageable chunks, so you can make realistic plans and know when resources will be needed.

By Nick Graham

Giving clear explanations and practical illustrations in each section, this straightforward guide explains how to effectively apply PRINCE2's principles, themes and processes to your projects and other real-world scenarios.

By Susan Tuttle

Suitable for Project Managers, Consultants, IT Managers, and those involved in PRINCE2 at any level, this book shows the trips, tricks, traps and techniques for setting up, running and delivering a successful project.

By Colin Bentley

Explaining all the PRINCE2 themes, processes, principles, roles and management products for the very latest version of PRINCE2, this guide features full coverage of all Foundation and Practitioner level exam objectives which will test your knowledge and prepare you for the exam.

By David Hinde

Covering 100 percent of the exam objectives, this accessible resource provides invaluable guidance that will help you master both the material and its applications.

By David Hinde

Including detailed checklists and hard-headed advice, this practical resource provides step-by-step instructions for managing any project in a clean sequence of five classic phases-initiating, planning, executing, releasing, and closing.

By Melanie McBride

Modular in format to facilitate training and advanced course instruction, this is a book about agile methodologies, as seen through the looking glass of project management.

By John C. Goodpasture

Focusing on all facets of the steps needed to successfully manage a project - from planning and resources to budgeting and more, this book will also help those preparing to take the PMBOK(r) certification exams of the Project Management Institute.

By Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel, Jr.

Providing practical guidance on all aspects of project management (PM), this book features a streamlined approach to PM functions without stinting on detailed coverage of the tools and methods used at all stages of a project.

By Harold Kerzner

Authored by world-renowned project management experts and illustrated with handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results.

By David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland

Written in a straightforward question and answer format with multiple choice questions, this essential companion covers key project management themes and concepts of the project management framework and the ten project management knowledge areas in the PMBOK(r) Guide.

By Frank T. Anbari (ed)

Aligned with the Fifth edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r) Guide), this guide covers the fundamentals, focusing on practical tools and techniques students can apply immediately to complete projects on time, on budget, and on target.

By Michael S. Dobson

The Age of Agility: Building Learning Agile Leaders and Organizations focuses on learning agility, one of the most important trends in the business world during the past decade.

By Kenneth P. De Meuse, Veronica Schmidt Harvey

Your guide to becoming the go-to advisor for the enterprise agile transition, this practical resource shows how to overcome challenges and move beyond team-level practice coaching to guide the entire organization to enterprise agility.

By Rick Freedman

This new and revised edition of The Agile Leader lays out clearly in eight steps how agile leaders empower their team to make decision quickly, evaluate correctly where the biggest opportunities are and mould their strategies around market dynamics and ever-changing needs.

By Simon Hayward

Combining case studies, self-assessment tools, guidelines, and practical checklists with theory, this book focuses on how to build both agility and resilience at individual, team, and organizational levels, and puts the process of developing agile strategy, structures, and processes into the big picture context.

By Linda Holbeche

Providing specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization, this book shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mindset and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts.

By Pamela Meyer

Drawing upon principles from Lean, this book will enable readers to get started on a journey to develop an Agile Mindset that is critical for survival of today's leaders and organizations within or outside of technology.

By Kamal Manglani

Transcending beyond Agile as a software development method to cover the gamut of methods in an organization, this practical resource presents a consistent, integrated, and strategic approach to achieving "Agility" in your business.

By Bhuvan Unhelkar

Authored by a former Chief Examiner for PRINCE2, this handy guide contains all you need to prompt your memory at the crucial time, and is laid out in a clear and comprehensible format with helpful diagrams and tables to help you focus on what you are trying to achieve.

By Colin Bentley

A succinct guide that summarizes the key elements of PRINCE2 2017, this book enables you to review essential themes before taking your PRINCE2 Foundation exam and serves as a reference guide to help you manage ongoing PRINCE2 projects within your organization.

By Colin Bentley

Detailing achievable ways in which Agile business analysts can increase the relevance, quality, and overall business value of your Agile projects, this book explains how Agile business analysts empower development teams to deliver the most successful Agile solutions.

By Jamie Lynn Cooke

The Project Manager's Guide to Mastering Agile helps project managers who are faced with the challenge of adapting their project management approach to an Agile environment, showing how these approaches can work jointly to improve project outcomes in any project, with discussion topics and real-world case studies that facilitate hands-on learning.

By Charles G. Cobb

Providing practical guidance to help you move from project manager to service-based project leader, this book details a framework for developing and refining leadership skills, and explains how to build a leadership competency pyramid and then execute a self-directed plan for building leadership competencies.

By Jack Ferraro

An introductory guide aimed at managers who want to use Agile to add value and deliver benefits to their organization, this book explains not only the concepts and essential principles of Agile but also how to create a sustainable environment in which Agile initiatives can thrive.

By Steve Messenger