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This book analyzes a period of time from WW II when Winston Churchill faced near defeat for the British in the face of sustained German attacks. The book describes the strategies he took to overcome incredible odds and turn the tide on the impending invasion. The historical analysis is done through a modern business and information technology lens, describing Churchill's actions and strategy using modern business tools and techniques. Aimed at business executives, IT managers, and project managers, the book extracts learnings from Churchill's experiences that can be applied to business problems today. Particular themes in the book are knowledge management, information portals, adaptive enterprises, and organizational agility.
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Building upon the popularity of the first book in the Lessons from History series, this book presents lessons for IT project managers harvested from the project that designed, built, and launched the R.M.S. Titanic. Full of practical advice, this book builds on the most notorious "failed project" in recent memory, the sinking of an "unsinkable" ship.
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While you might think your project plan is perfect, would you bet your life on it? In World War II, a group of 220 captured airmen did just that -- they staked the lives of everyone in the camp on the success of a project to secretly build a series of tunnels out of a prison camp the Germans thought was escape proof. The prisoners formally structured their work as a project, using the project organization techniques of the day. This book analyzes their efforts using modern project management methods and the nine knowledge areas of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Learn from the successes and mistakes of a project where people really put their lives on the line.
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Churchill, the Agile Project Manager In May 1940, the UK was facing a dire situation - an imminent German invasion when the British had just abandoned 90% of their war equipment. This audiobook recording looks at Churchill as an agile Project Manger, turning a disastrous situation into an unexpected victory. |
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Imagine you are in one of Titanic's lifeboats, drifting away from the sinking ship. As you look back, you wonder how such a disaster could have happened... Titanic's maiden voyage was a disaster waiting to happen as a result of the compromises made during its construction project. This book explores how modern IT Executives and IT Project Managers can take lessons from this nuts-and-bolts construction project and apply them to their IT projects today. |
We’ve all heard about them—projects where things go so wrong that they make the newspapers. Whatever the case, these projects fail, and fail BIG. But do any come close to the track- record of the cruise ship Titanic: four years in development (1909-1912) and only 4 days in operation? Learn from this historical project so that YOU don’t get caught as the Project Scapegoat if one of your projects fails.
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Titanic's maiden voyage was a disaster waiting to happen as a result of the compromises made in the project. This book by IBM Senior e-business Consultant, Mark Kozak-Holland, explores how non-IT executives can take lessons from a nuts-and-bolts construction project like Titanic and use those lessons to ensure the right approach to developing on-line operations. Looking at this historical project as a model will prove to be incisive as it cuts away the layers of IT jargon and complexity. This book is about delivering IT projects in a world where on-time and
on-budget is not enough. You need to be on-line--connecting to the Internet
and dealing with the 24-by-7 expectations of your customers and partners.
It will help you successfully maneuver through the ice floes of IT project
management in an industry with a notoriously high project failure rate.
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Lessons from the Great Escape (Luft III)
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