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The Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation

Author : Paul W. Mattessich

Publisher : Fieldstone Alliance

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 24,42 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Evaluation

ISBN : 9780940069381

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Your Guide to Getting a Useful Evaluation Evaluation is vital and beneficial to any nonprofit organization. An effective evaluation can help identify an organization's successes, share information with key audiences, and improve services. It can confirm that an organization is truly making a difference. This book is for: organization managers and decision makers, policymakers, funders, researchers, and students studying applied social service research. Benefits you'll get: describes what types of information to collect and what questions this information can answer; details the four phases of evaluation and the steps involved in each phase; and information on various types of research consultants and advice selecting one.



Developing E-business Systems & Architectures

Author : Paul Harmon

Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 34,46 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781558606654

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E-business is much more than e-commerce. Companies can spend millions of pounds developing online retail outlets without altering their organization or procedures. This text introduces managers to the nature and scope of this change.



A Manager's Guide to Project Management

Author : Michael B. Bender

Publisher : FT Press

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 30,22 MB

Release : 2009-06-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0137030711

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There are plenty of books about project management, but this is the first one written for the people who have the most at stake: the senior executives who will ultimately be held accountable for the successes of the projects they approve and supervise. Top enterprise project management expert Michael Bender explains project management from the perspective that matters most to executives: adding value. Most books view project management from the inside, focusing primarily on lower-level issues, such as the creation of Work Breakdown Structures. A Manager's Guide to Project Management views it from above, explaining how project managers can best achieve the strategic goals of the business; the executive's role in successful project management; and the tools available to executives who want to gain greater value from project management. Drawing on his extensive experience, Bender shows how to: make sure project and enterprise goals align; structure organizations to support more effective project communication and decision making; integrate project processes with other organizational processes; oversee projects more effectively. This book contains a full section on understanding and managing projects as capital investments, including detailed coverage of building balanced project portfolios. Bender concludes with a sophisticated discussion of managing projects in global environments and optimizing resources where multiple projects must be managed.



Making Process Improvement Work

Author : Neil Potter

Publisher : Addison-Wesley

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 10,89 MB

Release : 2002-03-22

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0132929562

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Software process improvement too often reflects a significant disconnect between theory and practice. This book bridges the gap—offering a straightforward, systematic approach to planning, implementing, and monitoring a process improvement program. Project managers will appreciate the book’s concise presentation style and will be able to apply its practical ideas immediately to real-life challenges. With examples based on the authors’ own extensive experience, this book shows how to define goals that directly address the needs of your organization, use improvement models appropriately, and devise a pragmatic action plan. In addition, it reveals valuable strategies for deploying organizational change, and delineates essential metrics for tracking your progress. Appendices provide examples of an action plan, a risk management plan, and a mini-assessment process. You will learn how to: · Scope and develop an improvement plan · Identify and prioritize risks and mitigate anticipated difficulties · Derive metrics that accurately measure progress toward business goals · Sell your improvement program in-house · Initially target practitioners and projects most-open to new approaches and techniques · Stay focused on goals and problems · Align the actions of managers and practitioners · Delay major policy documents and edicts until solutions have been practiced and tested · Use existing resources to speed deployment · Incorporate improvement models, such as SEI CMM® and CMMISM, into your improvement program For those managers who are tired of chronic project difficulties, constant new improvement schemes, and a lack of real progress, this easily digestible volume provides the real-world wisdom you need to realize positive change in your organization.



Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government

Author : Jonathan Weinstein

Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 22,77 MB

Release : 2010-02

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1523097221

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Gain Valuable Insight into the Government's Project Management Best Practices! Although project management is not new to the federal government, the discipline has taken on renewed importance in the face of the ever-increasing size, complexity, and number of mission-critical projects being undertaken by every branch and agency. This book addresses the key facets of project management, from organization and structure to people and process. A variety of government entities share their best practices in areas including leadership, technology, teams, communication, methodology, and performance management. Based on research and interviews with a wide range of project managers, Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government presents a realistic cross section of the project management discipline in the largest single enterprise in the world—the U.S. federal government.



Total Project Control

Author : Stephen A. Devaux

Publisher : Wiley

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 32,92 MB

Release : 1999-05-21

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780471328599

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New metrics for assessing the performance and profitability of individual or multiple projects-written by the creator of the Total Project Control method. "Critical path method needed a shot in the arm and Devaux delivers it in Total Project Control. His new book is an invaluable and much-needed advance in the art and practice of project management. Every project manager (and software developer) should read this book to understand what project management is all about."-Joel Koppelman, President, Primavera Systems, Inc. "Devaux's Total Project Control introduces a welcome approach for managing dynamic projects from start to finish."-Janet M. Baker, PhD, Chairman and CEO, Dragon Systems, Inc. "Finally, a major shift from traditional project management theory. Devaux slams through decades of cost/schedule fixation and completes the picture. The value concepts in Total Project Control will launch both the art and the science of project planning into mainstream business thinking."-Chip Drapeau, President and CEO, Project Software & Development, Inc. "Total Project Control represents a comprehensive approach for orchestrating and evaluating complex projects."-Alan Trefler, CEO, Pegasystems, Inc. "Total Project Control describes essential new tools for the project management 'power user' that are not found in your favorite project planning software. These tools will prove to be indispensable for the manager who must objectively balance complex multiproject resources."-Robert Virag, Senior Director, Research and Development, Mallinckrodt Inc. "In Total Project Control Stephen Devaux delivers a major breakthrough-all of the tools and understanding necessary to manage enterprise-wide resources in any project-driven company."-Dr. Priscilla A. Glidden V.P. of Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness, Abt Associates, Inc.





The Government Manager's Guide to Strategic Planning

Author : Kathleen E. Monahan

Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Page : 107 pages

File Size : 19,20 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781567264135

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Strategic planning deals with long-term goals and objectives. Performance management focusing on the performance of an organization, department, process, or employee--is what makes strategic planning work. Neither can be done without the other, but both must be adapted to the organization. This volume is designed as a reference for those involved in the day to-day challenge of performance management and measurement. Government managers will find ideas and practices that can be applied effectively in the federal environment.



Manager 3.0

Author : Brad Karsh

Publisher : AMACOM

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 18,38 MB

Release : 2013-06-24

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0814432905

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This guide to rewriting the rules of management is perfect for millennials looking to achieve career and professional success. Millennials have begun moving into management positions everywhere and are shaking up the workplace as they go. The generation that was raised in an age of instant communication, and questioning authority has begun tearing down the corporate ladder, communicating on the fly, and bringing play to work. Even with all the exciting potential that lies ahead for these creative, bold thinkers, it will be pointless if they cannot effectively bridge the gap between the hierarchical management style of senior executives and the casual, collaborative approach of their peers. Manager 3.0 is the first management guide written exclusively for the Millennial generation, where you will learn how to master crucial skills such as: dealing with difficult people, delivering constructive feedback, and making tough decisions You will also gain insight into the four generations currently in the workplace and how they can successfully bring out the best in each. Packed with company interviews and corporate examples, Manager 3.0 will help these promising new managers connect with and encourage the unique talents of the generations around them, while also developing an effective leadership style of their own.



Agile and Iterative Development

Author : Craig Larman

Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 42,6 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9780131111554

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This is the definitive guide for managers and students to agile and iterativedevelopment methods: what they are, how they work, how to implement them, andwhy they should.