The Mometrix guide is filled with the critical information you will need in order to do well on your PMP exam: the concepts, procedures, principles, and vocabulary that the Project Management Institute (PMI) expects you to have mastered before sitting for your exam.

Knowledge Café is a process for sharing information, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive. The Knowledge Café is a mindset and environment for engaging, discussing, and exchanging knowledge within a group either face to face or virtually. At the café, participants can discuss hard-to-solve project issues or resolve a family or community crisis....

"The PMP Questions, Answers and Explanations Updated for 2020-2021 Exam is a comprehensive study resource for any professional preparing for the 2020 PMP exam. Although the PMP exam is notoriously difficult to pass, this guide includes two complete mock exams and is designed to give test takers the best possible chance of passing the PMP on their first attempt. Author and PMP expert Darron Clark utilizes real-world examples of projects to prepare...

When it comes to what project managers do, the clue is in their job title, but the role also requires a significant understanding of people. After all, projects are, devised and driven forward by employees and teams. It is therefore crucial for project managers and executives to have a firm grasp of the thought and behavioral patterns of project team members and the wider workforce, so that they can steer both people and project to a successful outcome. This...

A toolbox for the new or moderately experienced IT project manager facing a serious, ongoing project disaster – or just a major crisis. It teaches you how to recognize a disaster in the making and offers good advice and tools that can be part of a potential solution. It also contains a lightweight adaptable methodical approach to solving an IT project crisis – the Severity Omega approach. Most IT projects meet some kind of crisis during their...

¿Por qué los tiempos estándar no se cumplen? ¿Por qué los costes de mano de obra se disparan siempre? ¿Por qué no sé nunca dónde se producen las pérdidas de tiempo? ¿Por qué las mejoras no se ponen en marcha nunca y si se ponen no devuelven resultados? Porque no se dispone de un correcto sistema de control de la productividad. Sin control de la productividad ningún tiempo o mejora se podrá implantar con toda la rentabilidad que podría...

¿Qué es una iglesia? ¿Cómo se construye? El arquitecto y el promotor que se enfrentan a la ardua misión de erigir un espacio sagrado son como funambulistas que recorren juntos, temblando, el sutil alambre que salva el abismo entre lo vulgar y lo sublime, lo natural y lo sobrehumano, lo sensible y lo espiritual, lo humano y lo divino... Este libro nace con el deseo de contribuir al fecundo y tradicional diálogo entre los actores que intervienen...

Este texto, escrito a partir de la experiencia y la docencia en investigación social, aborda las diferencias y relaciones entre los enfoques cualitativo y cuantitativo, considera que la realidad social comporta dimensiones subjetivas e indicadores susceptibles de cuantificar y plantea la construcción de relaciones complementarias entre ambos enfoques que pongan en evidencia la complejidad y hetereogeneidad de las situaciones sociales. Ofrece al...

The Art of Lean: Production Systems and Marketing Strategies in the Modern Era' explores a range of production and operations management systems, including the Toyota Production System, The Speedy System, The Henry Ford Assembly Line, and Zara Just In Time, as well as the marketing and branding strategies of The Golden Circle and the Mad Men scene "Lucky Strike - It's toasted".By examining the use of Kanban at McDonald's and Disney World, the book...

The book focuses on developing plans and schedules, and rigorously maintaining them. Presenting proven tools to develop credible baseline schedules, it deals with the details of internal and external factors that can cause delays and divulges well-tested key project control tools that you can deploy. These matters are at the heart of good project management. The wide-ranging pitfalls can seem daunting, but this experienced author makes the subject...