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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Making Things Happen [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I’m seeing this more and more in project management books (I like to think I started a trend !) There is a logical flow to the book. The bottom line is that if you work with projects you need this book on your shelf. It’s the book I wish I had written.

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A PM’s Guide to Agile Software Development

Project Bliss

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.

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How agile is your team (and what you can do about it!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by David Daly. I regularly see that software teams are expected to deliver new features faster, become more productive, and create amazing, intuitive and easy to use applications that are bug-free. So, should teams always implement methods 100% by-the-book? This matches my experience.

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Applying the heuristics of “How Big Things Get Done” to adaptive delivery

Kiron Bondale

I read a number of project leadership books each year but usually I find only one or two which really make an impact. Professor Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner ‘s book “ How Big Things Get Done ” is one of the latter. In the book, the authors provide many case studies supporting eleven heuristics derived from Prof.

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As the project manager, it’s good practice to book out time to spend elaborating the next iteration of the plan as you get closer to the relevant time frame because people’s calendars get booked up. Pin for later reading: This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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