Ross Publishing: 135 books
Project Pain Reliever
A Just-In-Time Handbook for Anyone Managing Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Much of the work performed in organizations around the world today is project oriented. Those responsible for leading the majority of these projects to successful results have varied educational backgrounds, knowledge, skill sets, and experiences gained over the course of their lives and careers that...
Procurement at a Crossroads
Career-Impacting Insights into a Rapidly Changing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
The procurement profession is at a major crossroads. Practitioners are responding to pressure from executive leadership to become more strategic, in some cases eliminating tactical work through outsourcing or automation. At the same time, performance metrics emphasize the need to continue negotiating...
Purchase Order Management Best Practices
Process, Technology, and Change Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
In todays competitive business climate, companies with effective procurement strategies are beginning to separate themselves from the competition. Successful purchase order management (POM) is now a critical core competency and organizations in all industries have started investigating tools and techniques...
Effective Complex Project Management
An Adaptive Agile Framework for Delivering Business Value
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
With technology continuing to invade the business world and the convergence of complexity, uncertainty, and constant change, a whole new class of projects has emerged for which traditional project management models such as Waterfall are totally insufficient. These are called complex projects. Extreme...
Mastering IT Project Management
Best Practices, Tools and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
In previous years, setting up IT infrastructure involved just the preparation of the data center. It has become much more complex and evolved today. The infrastructure includes not only the data center facility, but also the entire organization by providing internet connectivity to customers, vendors,...
Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success
A Knowledge Integration Framework and Value Focused Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success provides a practical approach to managing those things that matter most for project success—stakeholder expectations, communication, risk, change, and quality—so that scope, schedule, and cost end up on target and the project’s intended benefits...
Beat the Odds
Avoid Corporate Death and Build a Resilient Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Beat the Odds fills a crucial void in the current business literature. It clearly illustrates why great organizations slip from leader to follower to road-kill, and how organizations can Beat the Odds and avoid this fate. This is a concise must-read for senior executives, and for any manager interested...
Straight to the Bottom Line
An Executive's Roadmap to World Class Supply Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
During the past 25 years, the procurement and supply chain profession has radically evolved. Once a tactical and back-office function, it is now a strategic business opportunity that can be fundamental to the success of any organization. A few leading companies have achieved an enormous competitive advantage...
Project Management the Agile Way
Making it Work in the Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Project Management the Agile Way was written for experienced project managers, architects and systems analysts who are comfortable in traditional methods of project management but now need to learn about agile methods for software projects and understand how to make agile work effectively in the enterprise....
by Howard G. Birnberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Since publication of the first edition in 1992, Project Management for Designers and Facilities Managers has remained the leading choice for professionals and students seeking to learn and master the skills needed to successfully lead a project from conception to completion and beyond. Few engineering,...
Innovation, Product Development and Commercialization
Case Studies and Key Practices for Market Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
To succeed in the 21st century, firms must integrate their business, market, technology and resource strategies into a holistic product approach, and match technological innovation to market opportunities. Unlike other books on product development that limit their scope to the product development process,...
Value Innovation Portfolio Management
Achieving Double-Digit Growth Through Customer Value
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
The quest for successful products — and a simple, predictable way to determine in advance which products will be successful — is a core concern of all companies. Most firms use financial projections to select the best portfolio of products in which to invest their limited human and capital resources...
Mastering Software Project Requirements
A Framework for Successful Planning, Development & Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Adapted in part from Avionics Engineering specification DO-178, this book is a concise step-by-step guide to building and establishing the frameworks and models for the effective management and development of software requirements. It describes what great requirements must look like and who the real...
by N. Sivakugan, A. Arulrajah, M.W. Bo
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Testing rocks and aggregates are rarely covered in soil testing books and there are no separate books on rock or aggregate testing. Laboratory Testing of Soils, Rocks and Aggregates includes laboratory testing methods for most tests for soils as well as rocks and aggregates, which are becoming increasingly...