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Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, and Agile Essentials For Project Managers

Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, and Agile Essentials For Project Managers

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Description

This set of 3 books will help you:

Manage all kinds of projects - A project manager must have a project management guide at hand to revisit and strengthen their project management skills. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know 5th Edition is a compact manual to usher into the domain of project management. The topics covered in this book include:

  • Project management overview
  • Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
  • Project Planning - WBS, CPM, Budgeting, Quality, Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholders
  • Project Execution - Audits, Resources, Communications
  • Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
  • Agile Overview 

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Engage stakeholders in a project - “Stakeholder Engagement is the heart of project management” says Michelle Bartonico, author of Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know. This is a practical workbook for a project manager to organize and engage stakeholders for maximum efficiency in their projects. The topics covered in this book include:

  • Identifying key stakeholders in a project
  • Fundamentals of managing stakeholders 
  • Helpful approaches and strategies to engage stakeholders
  • Building a Stakeholder Engagement plan 
  • Responding to stakeholder scenarios with the eye of a Project Manager

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Learn the Agile way of project management - Agile Essentials You Always Wanted To Know provides a primary understanding of the Agile development methodology, when it is appropriate to use it, and the commonly used Agile practices. The topics included in the book are:

  • Scrum, a key Agile methodology
  • Various aspects of Agile planning and execution
  • Applicability of Agile in development and operations
  • Concepts and practices in Agile tracking and reporting
  • Overview of Agile leadership and team practices

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Bibliographic Details

Pages: 634 pages

Category: Business & Economics

Author: Michelle Bartonico, Kalpesh Ashar, Vibrant Publishers

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Author

Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer holding an MBA (Dean’s Award Winner) from SPJIMR, one of Asia’s top business schools, and an Engineering degree with honors in Electronics. He has over 24 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe. Kalpesh has worked in several project management roles, like Senior Project Manager, Delivery Manager, and Program Manager. He is passionate about writing on management subjects. His techno-business background gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates. His books are authored in a simple to understand manner without unnecessary use of management jargons.

Michelle Bartonico is an experienced, solution-driven marketer and project manager with more than a decade of experience in higher education and marketing agencies serving clients in a breadth of industry verticals from healthcare to manufacturing. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), PROSCI certified change practitioner, Six Sigma Yellow Belt, and has completed the Google Project Management Career Certificate program. Michelle also earned a Search Engine Optimization specialization from UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. 

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.

Series

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

Stakeholder Engagement Essentials articulates a people-centric approach that humanizes project management. This book provides engaging activities and discussions that allow the reader to reflect on and effectively digest the material.
--Stephanie Mendeloff, Executive Director, CREA Curriculum & Consulting

This book reinforces my teaching, and students love having a resource that reminds them of what they learned in class.
-- Angela J. Wheaton, Practical & Effective Project Management in University of Maine Hutchinson Center & University of Southern Maine

Supplemental Resources

Agile Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
Instructor Resources


Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
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Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
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Leyla Huseynova

A hands-on approach to learning Agile, with practical exercises at the end of each chapter. Its easy to understand and apply, even for those new to Agile methodology.

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Ahmet Demir

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Pradya Kanchanapong

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