The importance of supply chain management has increased over the last few decades. Today, entire supply chains are competing with each other instead of individual companies. As such, supply chain management has become a way for companies to set themselves apart from competing companies and their supply chains. Interestingly, supply chain management mainly focuses on efficiency-oriented topics rather than effectiveness-driven issues, in particular the design of supply chains from manufactur...

The definitive guide to the theory of constraints In this authoritative volume, the world's top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints Handbook offers an in-depth examination of this revolutionary concept of bringing about global organization performance improvement by focusing on a few leverage points of the system. Clear explanations supplemented by ...

A framework for formalizing risk management thinking in today¿s complex business environmentSecurity Risk Management Body of Knowledge details the security risk management process in a format that can easily be applied by executive managers and security risk management practitioners. Integrating knowledge, competencies, methodologies, and applications, it demonstrates how to document and incorporate best-practice concepts from a range of complementary disc...

With technology continuing to invade the business world and the convergence of complexity, uncertainty, and constant change, a whole new class of projects has emerged for which traditional project management models such as Waterfall are totally insufficient. These are called complex projects. Extreme Project Management models and a variety of Agile Project Management models such as Scrum, Rational Unified Process, Feature-Driven Development, and Dynamic Systems Development Method have emer...

Practice the Project Management Skills Essential for Your Success50+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studiesStep-by-step scenarios require you to think criticallyLab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab resultsKey term quizzes help build your vocabularyCovers all PMP exam objectives, including:Exploring PMP FoundationsExamining the Project Life ...

Why another book on software project management?For some time, the fields of project management, computer science, and software development have been growing rapidly and concurrently. Effective support for the enterprise demands the merging of these efforts into a coordinated discipline, one that incorporates best practices from both systems development and project management life cycles. Robert K. Wysocki creates that discipline in this book--a ready reference for professionals an...

"A quick reference to Business Analysis" is a guide for the aspiring business analysts which will help them in learning the concepts and techniques. The book understands the plight of the business analysts who are not domain experts and assists in learning and growing in the discipline of business analysis.In Chapter 1, the basics of business analysis are explained with the knowledge areas of a business analyst. The following chapters help the readers by depicting the concepts of r...

"A very rich book sprinkled with real-life examples as well as battle-tested advice.”—Pierre Haren, VP ILOG, IBM "James does a thorough job of explaining Decision Management Systems as enablersof a formidable business transformation.”—Deepak Advani, Vice President, Business Analytics Products and SPSS, IBM Build Systems That Work Actively to Help You Maximize Growth and Profits Most companies rely on operational systems that are largely passive. But wha...

Let’s face it — who among us has only a single project? Multiple projects are the norm, not the exception, and there are very good reasons why this is so. A lot of projects simply aren’t big enough to justify the investment of a full-time project manager: having only one is impractical. Depending on the availability of resources, a multiple project environment can accomplish substantial work while lowering the overhead burden of project management by consolidating processes.  In this book, yo...

Many people are confused about corrective action. They know its a requirement for compliance to standards such as ISO 9001, but they dont always realize the benefits of a well-designed and well-implemented corrective action process. This newly revised edition of The Corrective Action Handbook will help make your corrective action process more organized, more efficient, and more productive. Denise Robitailles book is a terrific guide to corrective action for anyone involved in the c...

This work is the definitive guide for IT managers and agile practitioners. It elucidates the principles of agile risk management and how these relate to individual projects. Explained in clear and concise terms, this synthesis of project risk management and agile techniques is illustrated using the major methodologies such as XP, Scrum and DSDM.Although the agile community frequently cites risk management, research suggests that risk is often narrowly defined and, at best, implicit...