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B2B Exchanges: The Killer Application in the Business-to-Business Revolution

Author: Arthur B. Sculley, W. William A. Woods | ISBN: 9627762598

An analysis of the key issues in building a successful, credible and effective B2B exchange.

Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Barry Boehm and Richard Turner | ISBN: 0321186125

A discussion of driven vs agile project management methods.

Breakthrough Technology Project Management

Author: Bennet Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea | ISBN: ISBN: 0124499708

How can the overall technology project management process be improved? If you have ever been involved in any type of systems and technology project in either the public or private sector for an organization large or small, this book is for you. Get guidelines that help you achieve greater success and reduce the risk of problems and failures in projects. With combined costs of failures and overruns totaling in the hundreds of billions of dollars, you can't afford not to read this book.

Building Options at Project Front-End Strategizing: The Power of Capital Design for Evolvability

Author: Guilherme Biesek & Nuno Gil, PhD | ISBN: 9781628250428

How do project teams overcome differences to adopt a design plan that strikes a balance between short-term affordability and long-term adaptability? In the book Building Options at Project Front-End Strategizing: The Power of Capital Design for Evolvability, Guilherme Biesek and Nuno Gil cite research indicating the need for a formal framework to develop front-end strategies that ensure cost-effective management of the project through future change.

Building the Data Warehouse

Author: Bill Inmon | ISBN: 0471141615

This book teaches many of the theoretical constructs of data warehousing. It's basically data warehousing 101--but can you really apply it practically? It's a quick read that can give you a general overview of data warehousing, but you should probably do some more in-depth research before actually embarking on a data warehouse project.

Building Trust at the Speed of Change: The Power of the Relationship-based Corporation

Author: Edward M. Marshall | ISBN: 0-8144-0478-2

A book about the power of goodness and how positive management can happen. The author Edward M. Marshall champions workers as irreplaceable assets and slams short-term change initiatives that all too often shortchange employees by destroying morale.

Business Driven PMO Success Stories: Across Industries and Around the World

Author: Mark Price Perry | ISBN: 978-1-60427-076-1

Business Driven PMO Success Stories was written by and with over two dozen contributing authors from the worldwide project management and project management office (PMO) community. It offers executives, managers, and all those involved in the projects of the organization, an understanding of the value a PMO can provide, the knowledge they need to determine the purpose of their PMO, and how to craft a PMO best suited to fulfill that purpose.

Business Driven Project Portfolio Management: Conquering the Top 10 Risks that Threaten Success

Author: Mark Price Perry | ISBN: 978-1-60427-053-2

Project portfolio management (PPM) is a term that is used to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing groups of projects based on numerous factors and considerations. The fundamental objective of PPM is to determine the best projects to undertake in support of the goals, objectives, and strategies of the organization. Business Driven Project Portfolio Management covers the top 10 risks that threaten PPM success and offers practical alternatives to help ensure achievement of desired results. Written from a business perspective, it contains the executive insights, management strategy, tactics, processes and architecture needed for the successful implementation, ongoing management, and continual improvement of PPM in any organization.

Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach

Author: Barbara von Halle | ISBN: 0-471-41293-7

The business rules approach to application development represents a major evolution in software engineering and promises to be the most practical and desirable way to build systems. As a result, developers are in need of a how-to guide for implementing business rules in practice. The author fills this niche in the literature by providing a pragmatic introduction to the techniques and guidelines necessary for assembling systems using a business rules approach.