Operational Excellence, Supply Chain & Agile Essentials

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Agile Essentials You Always Wanted To Know

Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know

Operational Excellence Essentials You Always Wanted to Know
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Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer. He holds an MBA from SPJIMR, an Engineering degree, and Agile certifications including CSM (Certified Scrum Master), PMI-ACP (PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner), and SFPC – Scrum Foundations Professional Certificate. Mr. Ashar has over 21 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe. His background provides a platform from which to write in a way to help people with diverse backgrounds understand business topics.

Ashley McDonough is a Supply Chain and Finance professional who holds an M.B.A from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, one of the top M.B.A. programs in the world. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, with an emphasis in Supply Chain, Operations Management, and Economics.

Mike Hammann has 20+ years of Operational Excellence experience, leading 100+ improvement projects in process optimization helping organizations build real, measurable impact.

Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth.

Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.

The Self-Learning Management Series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons and covers every aspect of business, from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations across any and every industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, and standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter.

This book does a great job connecting Lean, quality, and PDCA in a practical way. It reinforces how continuous improvement works best when both leaders and teams are actively involved.
-- Tionna VinsonOperations Manager

A must-read for aspiring COO’s or COS’s! This is an essential read for folks who want to learn all things ops. This is a rare ops book that actually explains the relevant complex systems and frameworks one must master in order to be successful in the field. Finally! A textbook with all the relevant ops topics in one place.
-- Jody TaylorFounder & CEO RUN-OPS, Business Operations Specialist

There is wonderful continuity told in plain language while bringing us through an example from the first phase through logistics.
-- Readers' Favorite

It is excellent in its use of examples
-- Wendy L. Tate, Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Purchase and Supply Management

User-friendly and not too technical McDonough succeeds in making operations, supply chain management and logistics quite understandable to a non technical audience, without losing the OSCM technical soul.
-- Andrea Patrucco, The Pennsylvania State University

Great OSCM primer
-- David A. Marshall, Eastern Michigan University

A good balance of theory and practicality
-- Henry C. Alphin Jr., Higher Education Administrator, Researcher, and Economic Development Professional

I went into the book knowing very little about Operations and Supply Chain Management and was pleasantly surprised. It was written in a clear and concise way that allowed me to understand individual concepts and the big picture. I appreciated the example that was carried through the book, as it made the explanations easy to visualize and follow. I can definitely recommend it for beginners to that specific branch, but have some business knowledge.
-- dsoberanis
Librarything User

We are still using the "Operations and Supply Chain Management" by Ashley McDonough for our AVS 2400 course. It is a great introductory text!
-- Willem J Homan
Professor
Department of Aviation Sciences
College of Aviation
Western Michigan University

If you ignored the concepts of material and resource planning as the most abstruse and unflinching, now you can easily say ‘yes’ to learning the most crucial concepts in this domain by reading them from cover to cover. This book can clear all the confounding models of procurement.
-- Ms. Jyoti Kukreja
Assistant Professor,
Jagannath International Management School,
Kalkaji, New Delhi

An excellent introduction to Agile for the newcomer and an excellent review for the experienced practitioner.
-- Jose Solera, PMP, CSM, CSPO, CSP and Agile practitioner since the 1990s Short: Jose Solera, PMP, CSM, CSPO, CSP and Agile practitioner

Effectively outlines the key concepts that all Agile project leader, Scrum Master or Product Owner must know and master.
-- Tim Mills, MBA, MS, CPL, ITIL, SS-GB, CSM, PMP Lead Instructor, Agile Project Management Harvard Extension School Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA Short: Tim Mills, PMP Lead Instructor, Harvard Extension School

This delivers pretty much exactly what it promises. After reading this book I think I have a pretty clear, high level, understanding of what Agile can do, how it works, and what it looks like from the inside and the outside. Highly recommended for anyone involved in a software development organization who is wondering whether Agile is something they should be considering adopting.
-- Foretopman
Librarything User

I am really enjoying Agile Essentials by Kalpesh Ashar as a supplement text in my Introduction to Project Management course. My students find the information easy to apply and compliment traditional project management concepts.
-- Paul W. Harp
FedEx Freight
Manager- Facility Design Solution & Projects