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Great engineers don't necessarily make great leaders—at least, not without a lot of work. Finding your path to becoming a strong leader is often fraught with challenges. It's not easy to figure out how to be strategic, successful, and considerate while also being firm. Whether you're on the management or individual contributor track, you need to develop strong leadership skills. This practical book shows you how to become a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader.

THE BLOCKBUSTER GUIDE TO PROJECT SUCCESS IS NOW PLAYING Imagine if your projects could be blockbuster hits. As anyone who has ever led a project successfully can attest, this journey demands meticulous planning, negotiation skills, and a keen awareness of the terrain, risks, allies, and foes. If this sounds like a movie you've seen, you're probably right. IN PROJECTLAND, THE SCRIPT FOR SUCCESS IS WRITTEN IN THE MOVIES. Welcome to Projectland, where projects are the main event, distinct from the routine of business-as-usual.

Progressive Delivery knocks down the wall separating software users from software makers. Technology leaders face a fundamental challenge: How do you know you’re delivering the right thing to the right person at the right time? Progressive Delivery offers a fresh perspective on this question, bridging the gap between software delivery and business value.

Agile Project Management for Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry—not just software development—agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away. Create a product roadmap and prepare for product launches with ease, thanks to this Dummies guide.

Brought to you by Penguin. Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organizations and elite athletes...

In a world where digital transformation drives every industry, cybersecurity risk has become one of the most defining challenges of modern project delivery. Cybersecurity Risk Management in Projects is your essential guide to navigating this high stakes landscape with clarity, confidence, and strategic insight. This audiobook demystifies the complex world of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management by breaking it down into practical, actionable steps that project teams can apply immediately.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of project management principles, processes, and tools, integrating the use of AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance efficiency in communication, planning, monitoring, and execution. The book will cover the project management lifecycle, team management, task prioritization, risk management, and leveraging AI for enhanced decision-making. This book balances theoretical project management concepts with practical applications of ChatGPT to enhance productivity and decision-making in various phases of a project.

You’ve been in that Agile planning session. Everyone agrees on goals like “improve customer experience” or “increase engagement.” The roadmap looks aligned. The OKRs are approved. But when the sprint ends, no one can clearly explain what success actually means—or why customers should care. Months later, your product team ships a feature. Customers don’t use it. Stakeholders ask uncomfortable questions. Someone says, “I thought we were building something different.” This isn’t a delivery problem. It’s a conversation problem.

Author Andrew Harmel-Law shows you how architects and development teams can collaborate to create and evolve more efficient architectures for their systems. Techniques in this book will help you learn how to create a mindset that allows everyone to practice architecture and build the best systems they've ever experienced.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming how we work, create, and communicate - but the secret to harnessing its full potential lies in one skill: prompt and context engineering.

Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience endless delays? And most importantly, which products work better - the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation leads to superior equipment? In this story-filled blend of quirky pop culture and practical engineering insight, Dan Ward presents an entertaining and useful framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation.

Around the world, product teams are waking up to the same uncomfortable truth: doing things “the right way” doesn’t matter if your team loses its funding or your company goes out of business. Simply put, product teams can no longer afford to be disconnected from the business impact of their work. And well-trodden “best practices” from Silicon Valley behemoths can only provide so much guidance for teams working across vastly different business and funding models.

Project Management All-in-One for Dummies is the premier go-to for PMs looking for hands-on information and advice to take their organizational, planning, and execution skills to new heights. In this book you will find: Project Management for Dummies, Agile Project Management for Dummies, Project Management Checklists for Dummies, Managing Millennials for Dummies, SCRUM for Dummies, Microsoft Project 2019, Product Management for Dummies, and Enterprise Agility for Dummies....

Discover a Powerful Nine-Step Method to Start Finishing the Work That Matters Most How much of your time and attention lately has been focused on things that truly matter to you? Most people's honest answer is: not enough. Everyone is buried by busywork, responsibility, distraction, and fatigue...

 We're now living in the project economy. As the number of projects initiated in both the public and private sectors skyrockets, project management skills have become essential for all leaders and managers. But despite this project boom, the failure rate remains extremely high. Why? Leaders have too many projects and too little visibility into them, and they lack the project implementation competencies necessary to deliver their projects successfully. 

In this audiobook we will be reviewing over 400 questions. All questions are based on the PMBOK Guide 6th Edition. Just like the actual PMP exam, 90 percent of the questions are scenarios and 10 percent are knowledge base. Knowledge-base questions will identify how well you have remembered the PMBOK terms and processes. Scenario based questions will test your ability to apply the many different terms and processes in a real-life situation.

Project Controls for Federal Construction is your essential guide to navigating one of the most demanding sectors in the construction industry. With decades of combined expertise, Dr. Scott Arias and Matt Ellis unveil the real-world challenges and solutions that project managers face when working on federal government projects. This comprehensive manual blends proven strategies with practical insights, offering step-by-step guidance from bidding and budgeting to scheduling, quality assurance, and closeout processes.

In today's environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn't happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purposefully activated—in a team, an organization, and a culture. The good news is that making space for this kind of work doesn't have to be hard. There's a technique available to everyone, with no special certification required: gamestorming.

Engineering isn’t broken because people stopped caring. It’s broken because product thinking got lost. In a world where shipping is fast but impact is rare, Product Driven offers a new model for engineering leadership. One built on outcomes, not output. If you’ve ever led a software team and wondered why the work feels disconnected, why your best engineers start coasting, or why everything still flows through you no matter how senior your team gets, this book is your roadmap out.

So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully-made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift and our soul is restored. Designer Alan Moore invites us to rethink not...