Are you a technical person, such as a software developer, tester, writer, or project manager? You know that a job search is tough. You have to network, online and in person. You have to customize your resume for each job, so you can showcase your talent. You have to look for a culture that fits you. How do you start? Treat your job hunt like the project it is. Use agile and lean project management approaches that allow you to create a visual system. You’ll increase your productivity, track your progress, evaluate your work, gain feedback, and throw out what doesn’t work while building on your successes. Learn from your past career to optimize for your next step. Full of tips, stories, and humor, you’ll apply practical techniques to take control of the most important project you’ll ever work on: find your next best job.

Manage Your Job Search

Business & Money

Rothman, Johanna

Job Hunting & Careers

Practical Ink

You’d like to estimate your project’s cost or schedule accurately. So far, none of your approaches have worked. It’s time to consider how you can create an accurate estimate. You might not be able to develop an estimate at the beginning of a project that is good until the end. Few project teams can. Instead, learn a number of ways to see your project and how to address your uncertainties in ways your managers will accept.

Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule

Management & Leadership

Agile and Lean Program Management: 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 scaling processes. If you duplicate what one team does for several teams, you get bloat, not delivery. Instead of scaling the process, scale everyone's collaboration.With autonomy, collaboration, and exploration, teams and program level people can decide how to apply agile and lean to their work. Learn to collaborate around deliverables, not meetings. Learn which measurements to use and how to use those measures to help people deliver more of what you want (value) and less of what you don’t want (work in progress). Create an environment of servant leadership and small-world networks. Learn to enable autonomy, collaboration, and exploration across the organization and deliver your product.Scale collaboration with agile and lean program management and deliver your product.

Does your organization value and rank projects based on estimation? Except for the shortest projects, estimation is often wrong. You don’t realize the value you planned when you wanted. How can you finish projects in time to realize their potential value?Instead of estimation, consider using cost of delay to evaluate and rank projects. Cost of delay accounts for ways projects get stuck: multitasking, other projects not releasing on time, work queuing behind experts, excessive attention to code cleanliness, and management indecision to name several. Once you know about cost of delay, you can decide what to do about it. You can stop the multitasking. You can eliminate the need for experts. You can reduce the number of projects and features in progress. You can use cost of delay to rank projects and work in your organization. Learn to use cost of delay to make better decisions for your project, program, or project portfolio.

Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio

Eckstein, Jutta

Distributed agile teams have a terrible reputation. They don’t deliver “on time,” and too often, they don’t deliver what the customer needs. However, most agile teams, have at least one remote team member. And, agile approaches are here to stay. Don’t blindly apply agile practices designed for collocated teams. Instead, learn to use three mindset shifts and the agile and lean principles to create your successful distributed agile team. Use the tips and traps to help your team succeed.Leave the chaos of virtual teams behind. See how to help your distributed team succeed.

From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver

Kilby, Mark

Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: 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 not alone.Modern management requires we first manage ourselves—and that might be the most challenging part of management. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, you'll see how you can manage yourself. Through questions, stories, and proven options, learn how you can:•Move from expert to coach.•Recognize and avoid micromanagement.•Support the people doing the work to solve more of their problems.•Make time to think so you can be your best self.•Trust the people you lead and serve.•And, much more.With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you manage yourself.Become a modern manager. Learn to manage yourself so you and the people you lead and serve can deliver the results everyone needs.

How can you be the best manager you can be?If you've never seen excellent management, you might not know what "best" looks like--and that's a problem. You are not alone.Modern management requires we first manage ourselves-and that might be the most challenging part of management. Based on research, backed up by personal stories, you'll see examples of unwise and excellent management. You can then choose from several options to improve your management results.Through questions, stories, and proven options, learn how you can:	- Use the seven principles of modern management to create an environment where everyone can thrive- Recognize and avoid micromanagement.- Support the people doing the work to solve more of their problems.- Make time to think so you can be your best self.- Trust the people you lead and serve.- And, much more.You'll see earn how common-but ill-advised-management practices prevent great business outcomes instead of delivering products and services your customers will pay for and use.Avoid outdated and bygone management traditions. Become a modern manager. Learn to manage yourself so you can lead and serve others.

Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others: 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 can't possibly lead and serve others. Especially not with all the pressure you feel. You can. Great managers create an environment where people can do their best work. These excellent managers lead and serve others-not control or direct them. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, this book will show you how modern managers lead and serve others. Through questions and stories, learn how you can: Change your focus from individuals to teams.<ul><li>Create more capability in each person and as a team.</li><li>Create more engaged teams or workgroups.</li><li>Support people as they manage their careers and eliminate the need for performance reviews.</li><li>Support teams as they can learn to manage themselves.</li><li>And, much more.</li></ul> With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you lead and serve others. Become a modern manager. Learn to lead and serve others to deliver the results everyone needs.

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 can't possibly lead and serve others. Especially not with all the pressure you feel. You can.Great managers create an environment where people can do their best work. These excellent managers lead and serve others-not control or direct them.Based on research and backed up by personal stories, this book will show you how modern managers lead and serve others. Through questions and stories, learn how you can: <ul><li>Change your focus from individuals to teams.</li><li>Create more capability in each person and as a team.</li><li>Create more engaged teams or workgroups.</li><li>Support people as they manage their careers and eliminate the need for performance reviews.</li><li>Support teams as they can learn to manage themselves.</li><li>And, much more.</li></ul>With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you lead and serve others.Become a modern manager.Learn to lead and serve others to deliver the results everyone needs.

Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: 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 not alone. Learn to create an environment where people can innovate. See how to use the organization's purpose to manage for better outcomes. Free people to work better and faster. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, you'll see how modern managers practice innovation. Through questions and stories, learn how you can: <ul><li>Create management teamwork at all levels.</li><li>Reduce management decision time.</li><li>Manage for effectiveness to promote innovation.</li><li>Plan by value.</li><li>Welcome experiments and learn from them.</li><li>Move from change management to embracing change.</li><li>And, much more.</li></ul> With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you can create management innovation. Change your practices and free the people to deliver better outcomes. Become a modern manager. Learn to lead an innovative organization.

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Manage Your Job Search

Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule

Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization

Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio

From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver

Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1

Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1

Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2

Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2

Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 3