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Managing Projects in the Real World provides clear and actionable advice to project managers for recognizing, anticipating, and overcoming challenges associated with the human component of leading others. The mechanics of project management are rational and straightforward to learn. The art of project management is irrational and complex to learn.

Project managers need to develop a repertoire of soft skills that are typically hard for them, since they rose through the ranks to that position by virtue of superior reasoning skills. But if a project manager cannot adjudicate...

The growing complexity of projects today, as well as the uncertainty inherent in innovative projects, is making obsolete traditional project management practices and procedures, which are based on the notion that much about a project is known at its start. The current high level of change and complexity confronting organizational leaders and managers requires a new approach to projects so they can be managed flexibly to embrace and exploit change. What once used to be considered extreme uncertainty is now the norm, and managing planned projects is being replaced by managing projects as...

In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating "before Scrum" and "after Scrum." Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world's top technology companies. And now it's starting to spread to every domain where leaders wrestle with complex projects.

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One day, you are innocently sitting at your desk doing the job you were hired to do. The next, poof Suddenly you've been assigned to the role of project manager. How will you get the task done-particularly if it is well underway and out of control? Or maybe you're an old pro who is hoping to get your mojo back, or at least have a therapeutic chuckle.

Seasoned project manager Dee G. Suberla has the answers, and the light-hearted perspective, to help anyone master and thoroughly enjoy the enterprise, and get the job done on schedule, on budget, and on an upbeat note. "Poof " "You're A...

Want to take your career to the next level and be a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? This easy-to-use guide has you covered Project Management Checklists For Dummies takes the intimidation out of project management, and shows you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time--and headaches--in managing your projects effectively.

Project Management Checklists For Dummies gives you to-do lists, hands-on checklists and helpful...