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Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
This book is a reality-based guide for modern projects. You'll learn how to recognize your project's potholes and ruts, and determine the best way to ...
Hiring a person for your team is the single most important decision you can make. It has long-lasting impact, whether you are the manager or a team me...
Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2
You can excel at managing people when you lead and serve them. You might have only seen managers try to direct and control others. You might think you...
How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
Does your agile project feel like a death march, with immovable deadlines, long backlogs, and no time to do the work right? If so, you're not alone. F...
Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1
You can become an excellent manager when you manage yourself first. If you’re like most managers, you’ve never seen management excellence. You are...
Modern Management Made Easy, Book 3
Would you like your organization to innovate more? Start with your management practices. You might never have seen innovation in management. You are n...
Is Independent Consulting Your Next Role? You've been successful inside organizations, and now it's time to extend that success to potential clients. ...
The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2004). Proven Methods for Attracting, Interviewing, and Hiring Technical Workers Good te...
Educate, Influence, and Entertain Your Readers
Free your inner nonfiction writer as you learn to write fast and well. Do you want to write nonfiction better and faster? But when you try to write, y...
Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
You think agile techniques might be for you, but your projects and organization are unique. An "out-of-the-box" agile approach won't work. Instead, un...
A Rothman Writing Short
Do you dream of speaking at a conference? You want to share your successes---and maybe your failures. Conference committees accept proposals they unde...
" If you have trouble estimating cost or schedule for your projects, you are not alone. The question is this: who wants the estimate and why? The defi...
Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio
Does your organization value and rank projects based on estimation? Except for the shortest projects, estimation is often wrong. You don’t realize t...
Secrets of Great Management
Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve...
Collaborate to Deliver
Distributed agile teams have a terrible reputation. They don’t deliver “on time,” and too often, they don’t deliver what the customer needs. H...
Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
Scale collaboration, not process. If you’re trying to use agile and lean at the program level, you’ve heard of several approaches, all about scali...
Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
You have too many projects, and firefighting and multitasking are keeping you from finishing any of them. You need to manage your project portfolio. T...
We love our toys. Modern-day worker bee or undercover criminal, every aspect of our lives teems with gadgets. Office, home, automobile, bicycle — ev...
A Pragmatic Approach to Effective Problem Solving
Many people are confused about corrective action. They know it’s a requirement for compliance to standards such as ISO 9001. In some cases, the mand...
" A job search is an emergent project. How do you handle an emergent project? By creating a system that allows for serendipity and flexibility: person...
Somewhere in Nevada timelines meet and diverge. Falling in one of those timeslips can change your life forever. Starting in 1849, thousands of prospec...
Explore Behaviour Using Examples
Written by the creator of SpecFlow and the author of The Cucumber for Java Book, this book provides inside information on how to get the most out of t...
Issue 15, June-July 2019: Featuring Anna J. Stewart
Love romance? Love discovering the best new writers with bite-sized stories? Or maybe you prefer to treat yourself by escaping into a sure-to-please f...
Will you be our valentine? What do you want for Valentine's Day? A heart-shaped box of chocolates? Dinner out with the love of your life? A romantic r...