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• Features the voices of recent Black women doctoral graduates
attending historically white institutions • Grounded in
Dillard’s (2012) endarkened epistemology • Offers readers a
nuanced look at how intersectional identities shape academic
achievement, and provides insights for navigating the process
Thousands of project management–related books have been written.
Why is Optimizing Project Work, Management, and Delivery different?
This book represents the authors’ experiences gained from looking
at the problem of project management for 50 years and wondering why
projects cannot be more successful. Experience from various
management models and techniques has helped but still does not fit
reality or provide accurate forecasts. Industry surveys have
compiled the root causes of project failure, and yet they persist.
Is there no answer to this problem? As the book explains, the
management solution is not in the models or the theory but is found
in how they are mapped against the actual target project
characteristics. This is the book’s unique strength. There are
major coverage gaps in current project management models that also
need to be recognized. All of the existing models are correct in
some ways, and yet each is also wrong. The book starts by reviewing
popular models and related topics that help construct the building
blocks of an integrated model structure, which is at the core of
this book. The integrated model described here is meant to be a
decision-oriented view related to the project life cycle rather
than a cookbook of success steps. Project management is too complex
for a cookbook approach. This text helps managers find that right
path.
• Features the voices of recent Black women doctoral graduates
attending historically white institutions • Grounded in
Dillard’s (2012) endarkened epistemology • Offers readers a
nuanced look at how intersectional identities shape academic
achievement, and provides insights for navigating the process
Thousands of project management–related books have been written.
Why is Optimizing Project Work, Management, and Delivery different?
This book represents the authors’ experiences gained from looking
at the problem of project management for 50 years and wondering why
projects cannot be more successful. Experience from various
management models and techniques has helped but still does not fit
reality or provide accurate forecasts. Industry surveys have
compiled the root causes of project failure, and yet they persist.
Is there no answer to this problem? As the book explains, the
management solution is not in the models or the theory but is found
in how they are mapped against the actual target project
characteristics. This is the book’s unique strength. There are
major coverage gaps in current project management models that also
need to be recognized. All of the existing models are correct in
some ways, and yet each is also wrong. The book starts by reviewing
popular models and related topics that help construct the building
blocks of an integrated model structure, which is at the core of
this book. The integrated model described here is meant to be a
decision-oriented view related to the project life cycle rather
than a cookbook of success steps. Project management is too complex
for a cookbook approach. This text helps managers find that right
path.
This book is designed to be a quick guidelines-oriented approach to
the topic of project management. It contains the essential
management practices required to produce successful project
outcomes. Guidelines for Achieving Project Management Success helps
the non-technical reader who might have been originally put off by
a more robust treatment of project management. It uses the 80/20
rule where 80% of the project management problem may originate from
just 20% of the cause. The book includes easy to understand
examples illustrating key topics and offers advice and references
for further reading. The book also helps the reader on how to
define what the target is with the project and how to execute it to
get the desired results. The primary audience is individuals who
are seeking a readable description of the project management
processes. The book is also useful for an academic program where
project management is secondary to the primary topic.
Heavily integrates Microsoft Project into the chaptersOffers
templates and examplesIncludes case studiesProvides lab assignments
for hands-on-experiencePresents topics covered in the PMBOK that
will prepare students for the Project Management Institute
certification exams.
Project Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition gives
students a broad and real flavor of project management. Bringing
project management to life, it avoids being too sterilely academic
and too narrowly focused on a particular industry view. It takes a
model-based approach towards project management commonly used in
all industries. The textbook aligns with the latest version of the
Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK (R)) Guide, which is considered to be the de facto standard
for project management. However, it avoids that standard's verbiage
and presents students with readable and understandable
explanations. Core chapters align with the Project Management
Institute's model as well as explain how this model fits real-world
projects. The textbook can be used as companion to the standard
technical model and help those studying for various project
management certifications. The textbook takes an in-depth look at
the following areas important to the standard model: Work Breakdown
Structures (WBS) Earned Value Management (EVM) Enterprise project
management Portfolio management (PPM) Professional responsibility
and ethics Agile life cycle The text begins with a background
section (Chapters 1-9) containing material outside of the standard
model structure but necessary to prepare students for the 10
standard model knowledge areas covered in the chapters that follow.
The text is rounded out by eight concluding chapters that explain
advanced planning approaches models and projects' external
environments. Recognizing that project management is an evolving
field, the textbook includes section written by industry experts
who share their insight and expertise on cutting-edge topics. It
prepares students for upcoming trends and changes in project
management while providing an overview of the project management
environment today. In addition to guiding students through current
models and standards, Project Management: Theory and Practice,
Third Edition prepares students for the future by stimulating their
thinking beyond the accepted pragmatic view.
This book introduces Germanists to the mechanics and methodology of
modern library research. It explains the use of various
bibliographic access systems, providing step-by-step search
strategies to the most modern computerized data bases for the whole
field of German studies.
This book will help students of German language, literature, and
civilization to develop their skills in using the resources and
services of college and university libraries. Not restricted to the
traditional study of German language and literature, the book also
guides the student over the bibliographic terrain of German
history; prehistory and folklore; philosophy and religion; and art,
music, and cinema. Dr. Richardson begins with a practical overview
of bibliographic access systems--catalogs, indexes, abstracts, and
bibliographies--and of basic search strategies for effective
library research, An annotated bibliography, the largest section of
the book, describes the most important research tools in German
studies, as well as representative examples of specialized
resources needed by the advanced scholar. The book concludes with a
review of supplementary resources, including books about German
reference works, books on how to write research papers, and data
bases for computerized literature searches. Appendixes list library
classification systems and subject headings for German studies.
The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for
environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom
reflectance, spectrally diverse suspended sediments and
phytoplankton communities, diverse benthic communities, and
transient events that affect surface reflectance (coastal blooms,
runoff, etc.) all combine to produce an optical complexity not seen
in terrestrial or open ocean systems. Despite this complexity,
remote sensing is proving to be an invaluable tool for "Case 2"
waters. This book presents recent advances in coastal remote
sensing with an emphasis on applied science and management. Case
studies of the operational use of remote sensing in ecosystem
studies, monitoring, and interfacing remote
sensing/science/management are presented. Spectral signatures of
phytoplankton and suspended sediments are discussed in detail with
accompanying discussion of why blue water (Case 1) algorithms
cannot be applied to Case 2 waters. Audience This book is targeted
for scientists and managers interested in using remote sensing in
the study or management of aquatic coastal environments. With only
limited discussion of optics and theory presented in the book, such
researchers might benefit from the detailed presentations of
aquatic spectral signatures, and to operational management issues.
While not specifically written for remote sensing scientists, it
will prove to be a useful reference for this community for the
current status of aquatic coastal remote sensing.
William Gregory, "Greg," to all, was born into a sharecropper's
life in the hills of northcentral Tennessee. From the back of a
mule-drawn plow, Greg learned the value of resilience and the
importance of living a determined life. Refusing to accept a life
of continued poverty, Gregy sought and found a way out - a
work-study college program that made it possible to leave farming
behind him forever. While at college, Greg completed the Civilian
Pilot Training Program and was subsequently accepted into the
Army's pilot training program. Earning his wings in 1942, Greg
became a P-38 combat pilot and served in North Africa during the
summer of 1943 - a critical time when the Luftwaffe was still a
potent threat, and America had begun the march northward from the
Mediterranean into Europe proper. Following the war, Greg served
with a B-29 unit, then transitioned to the new, red-hot B-47
strategic bomber. In his frequent deployments, he was always
assigned the same target in the Soviet Union - Tblisi, Stalin's
home town. While a B-47 pilot, Greg was selected to join America's
first high-altitude program - the Black Knights. Flying RB-57D
aircraft, Greg and his team flew peripheral "ferret" missions
around the Soviet Union and its satellites, collecting critical
order-of-battle data so desperately needed by the Air Force at that
time. When that program neared its design end, and following the
Gary Powers shoot-down over the Soviet Union, Greg was assigned to
command of the CIA's U-2 unit at Edwards AFB. It was during that
five-year command that Greg and his team provided critical
overflight intelligence, including during the Bay of Pigs, the
Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam build-up. He found time to
also become one of the first to fly U-2s off aircraft carriers in a
demonstration project. Following his U-2 command, Greg attended the
National War College, was assigned to the reconnaissance office at
the Pentagon, and then was named Vice-Commandant of the Air Force
Institute of Technology (AFIT). Greg retired from the Air Force in
1972.
The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for
environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom
reflectance, spectrally diverse suspended sediments and
phytoplankton communities, diverse benthic communities, and
transient events that affect surface reflectance (coastal blooms,
runoff, etc.) all combine to produce an optical complexity not seen
in terrestrial or open ocean systems. Despite this complexity,
remote sensing is proving to be an invaluable tool for "Case 2"
waters. This book presents recent advances in coastal remote
sensing with an emphasis on applied science and management. Case
studies of the operational use of remote sensing in ecosystem
studies, monitoring, and interfacing remote
sensing/science/management are presented. Spectral signatures of
phytoplankton and suspended sediments are discussed in detail with
accompanying discussion of why blue water (Case 1) algorithms
cannot be applied to Case 2 waters.
Audience
This book is targeted for scientists and managers interested in
using remote sensing in the study or management of aquatic coastal
environments. With only limited discussion of optics and theory
presented in the book, such researchers might benefit from the
detailed presentations of aquatic spectral signatures, and to
operational management issues. While not specifically written for
remote sensing scientists, it will prove to be a useful reference
for this community for the current status of aquatic coastal remote
sensing.
CD included
An interactive CD accompanies this book containing the WASI
program by Peter Gege (DLR, Germany). The WASI program allows users
to interactively manipulate and view coastally relevantspectra. The
CD also contains full color images of a selection of illustrations
which are printed as black and white figures in the book.
The Mainframe Programmer's Guide to .NET is designed to be a guide
covering the entire .NET platform. In order to cover as wide of a
scope as this book does, low-level reference type detail is
conservatively included. Richardson's book carefully covers every
aspect .NET. Starting with a complete list of .NET Retraining
Prerequisites and a full chapter answering the question What is
.NET, the author skillfully takes the reader through the .NET
Framework, Database Access, Windows, Web, and Web Services topics.
Additional topics range from Printing with Crystal Reports, using
XML, and HTML to advanced .NET topics like .NET Configuration and
Security for Web Services. The Mainframe Programmer's Guide to .NET
is certainly a complete guide for the Mainframe programmer. Each
chapter provides valuable references for continued learning. Having
been given a context, the informed reader is then encouraged to
take advantage of the references for continued in-depth training.
The topic of project management is truly an evolution of art
seeking science. This activity involves balancing project
objectives against the constraints of time, budget, and quality.
Achieving this balance requires skill, experience, along with the
use of many tools, and techniques which are the focus of this book.
This new edition provides updated content to incorporate examples
from Microsoft Project 2016 and material from the Project
Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK (R) Guide), sixth edition. The
chapter structure includes step-by-step instructions regarding the
basic mechanics and various software tools that can be used to
assist in the processes. To reinforce the textbook's learning
objectives, extra material is provided on the textbook website.
This includes mechanical tool examples and lab assignments
representative of the chapter topics. An external video tutorial
library is available to help with various mechanics related to
Microsoft Project mechanics. An instructor manual is available for
qualifying adoptions for classroom use. NOTE: Chapter 26 is not in
the textbook and is only located in the book's Downloads tab on the
CRCPress.com website. Features Illustrates the use of Microsoft
Project throughout the project life cycle Offers templates as
productivity enhancement tools Includes supplemental material for
students and instructors Provides assignments for hands-on
experience Follows the PMI PMBOK (R) Guide model structure that
will support a better understanding of the model and help prepare
students for PMP and CAPM certification Illustrates both
traditional and contemporary management techniques
Project Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition gives
students a broad and real flavor of project management. Bringing
project management to life, it avoids being too sterilely academic
and too narrowly focused on a particular industry view. It takes a
model-based approach towards project management commonly used in
all industries. The textbook aligns with the latest version of the
Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK (R)) Guide, which is considered to be the de facto standard
for project management. However, it avoids that standard's verbiage
and presents students with readable and understandable
explanations. Core chapters align with the Project Management
Institute's model as well as explain how this model fits real-world
projects. The textbook can be used as companion to the standard
technical model and help those studying for various project
management certifications. The textbook takes an in-depth look at
the following areas important to the standard model: Work Breakdown
Structures (WBS) Earned Value Management (EVM) Enterprise project
management Portfolio management (PPM) Professional responsibility
and ethics Agile life cycle The text begins with a background
section (Chapters 1-9) containing material outside of the standard
model structure but necessary to prepare students for the 10
standard model knowledge areas covered in the chapters that follow.
The text is rounded out by eight concluding chapters that explain
advanced planning approaches models and projects' external
environments. Recognizing that project management is an evolving
field, the textbook includes section written by industry experts
who share their insight and expertise on cutting-edge topics. It
prepares students for upcoming trends and changes in project
management while providing an overview of the project management
environment today. In addition to guiding students through current
models and standards, Project Management: Theory and Practice,
Third Edition prepares students for the future by stimulating their
thinking beyond the accepted pragmatic view.
What stops you from clearing your clutter? What would it mean if it
was all gone? If clutter were no longer an obstacle, what would you
then have time for? The world tells us that success is 'more and
bigger' but if your material possessions weigh you down, overwhelm
you and no longer bring you joy, this is a loud-and-clear sign that
something in your life needs your attention. In this book,
lifestyle designer and coach Kerri Richardson guides you to accept
that clutter is a messenger - it is your subconscious showing that
you are not living the life you truly dream of. Richardson dives
into the most common categories of physical clutter and provides
efficient and effective steps for clearing your space. But more
than house and home, Richardson encourages you to clear out the
clutter of relationships and habits that have been occupying your
time and energy for too long. When you clear away what you no
longer need, you make space for new opportunities and experiences
to come your way. This book will show you how to reclaim your
freedom, energy and power, and begin living more fully and
authentically.
More than ever before, there is widespread interest in studying
bumble bees and the critical role they play in our ecosystems.
"Bumble Bees of North America" is the first comprehensive guide to
North American bumble bees to be published in more than a century.
Richly illustrated with color photographs, diagrams, range maps,
and graphs of seasonal activity patterns, this guide allows amateur
and professional naturalists to identify all 46 bumble bee species
found north of Mexico and to understand their ecology and changing
geographic distributions.
The book draws on the latest molecular research, shows the
enormous color variation within species, and guides readers through
the many confusing convergences between species. It draws on a
large repository of data from museum collections and presents
state-of-the-art results on evolutionary relationships,
distributions, and ecological roles. Illustrated keys allow
identification of color morphs and social castes.
A landmark publication, "Bumble Bees of North America" sets the
standard for guides and the study of these important insects.The
best guide yet to the 46 recognized bumble bee species in North
America north of MexicoUp-to-date taxonomy includes previously
unpublished results Detailed distribution maps Extensive keys
identify the many color patterns of species
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