The Public Execution of Miss Scarlet

The Public Execution of Miss Scarlet

Author: James Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1424320631

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They are in every project. They are the Five Deadly Sins of project management. In this fictional tale, Kelly Roberts and his team seek the truth. In investigating why Project Skyview is failing, they find that the truth is a precious and minute commodity. What can Kelly do to turn around Project Skyview and make it a successful project? The board of directors of Crutec hires Kelly Roberts and his sidekicks, Amanda Nickerson and Leroy Jefferson, to do just that. They come in with fresh eyes and new ideas, but they are stopped and diverted at every turn by the internal politics and underlying prejudices. From sleepy Cape Cod to the heart of Silicon Valley, the mystery unfolds. This book explores the ways Kelly and his team identify the Five Deadly Sins, what action Crutec could take to overcome them, and how to raise Crutec’s chances of project success.


Executive Sponsor Research Report

Executive Sponsor Research Report

Author: James Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1329884051

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"The executive sponsor should be the most important person involved with a project and is ultimately responsible for its success or failure. Therefore, the executive sponsor should have the skills to lead and guide a project to resolution. This report ... attempt to outline the 50 best practices and tools needed to be a good executive sponsor."-- Page 3.


My Life is Failure

My Life is Failure

Author: James Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-02

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 149519230X

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100 Things You Should Know to Be a Successful Project Leader. My Life in Failure is a summation of over two decades of work on project failure. The Standish Group has been collecting case information on real-life IT environments and software development projects since 1985. Standish's cumulative research encompasses 20 years of data on why projects succeed or fail, representing more that 50,000 completed IT projects. Note: Updated 17 charts with 2015/2016 data.


Digital Enterprises

Digital Enterprises

Author: Henderik A. Proper

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-16

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 3031302141

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This book explores different aspects of and provides concrete suggestions to meet the three main challenges for becoming a “Digital Enterprise”: the transition to the digital age, the emergence of service ecosystems, and the growing role of data as a key underlying resource. As a result of these intertwined and mutually amplifying trends, today’s enterprises are confronted with several challenges that profoundly impact their design, from the definitions of products and services offered to their clients via the business processes that deliver these products and services to the underlying IT infrastructure. The contributions which are written by leading enterprise architecture researchers and managers of large corporations cover four key aspects which form each one part of the book: Part I presents experiences how different enterprises currently already need to embrace and exploit new challenges like blockchain, customer-centric services, or value co-creation networks. Part II looks at the need for a new design logic, i.e. the need for new ways of thinking regarding the design of enterprises. Part III is concerned with the coordination needed among different stakeholders of the ensuing continuous transformations. Part IV eventually reflects on the ongoing consequences for enterprise modeling as used to capture both the current affairs of an enterprise, as well as design/study its possible future affairs. The target audience of this book are both master and PhD level students who want to gain insights into key aspects of the challenges confronting digital enterprises, as well as enterprise architects and information managers working in enterprises that are on their way to become digital.


Dead Presidents' Guide to Project Management

Dead Presidents' Guide to Project Management

Author: James Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1733598200

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The Dead Presidents' Guide to Project Management considers lessons learned that these great men have bestowed upon us. The job of president of the United States requires many of the same leadership skills, knowledge, and characteristics you need to be a good executive sponsor, project manager, teammate, collaborator, and person. This guide provides you with a deeper understanding on how these leaders used many of these skills to improve the United States of America. This deeper understanding will allow you to relate adroitly and effectively to your own situation and environment. This guide will also help you to become a more interesting person.


CHAOS Report: Decision Latency Theory: It Is All About the Interval

CHAOS Report: Decision Latency Theory: It Is All About the Interval

Author: James Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0692048308

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The CHAOS Report: Decision Latency Theory: It¿s All About the Interval. This CHAOS Report 2018 presents the root cause of software project performance. The report also includes classic CHAOS data in different forms with many charts. Most of the charts come from the CHAOS database of over 50,000 in-depth project profiles from the fiscal years 2013 to 2017. A highlight of this report is our analysis and thought leadership what makes a project succeed and winning hand and what makes a losing hand.


Saving Jimmy

Saving Jimmy

Author: James Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-05

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1495192326

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Saving Jimmy is a fun story about a lost boy. The Adventures of Jackie series provides easy to understand basic project management lessons aimed at children. Jackie the Squirrel is a project manager. Jackie enjoys solving problems through managing projects. In saving Jimmy, Jackie first observes Jimmy wandering around woods looking lost. Jackie decides to make a plan to save Jimmy from freezing. Jackie then acquires resources and executes the plan. This graphic book demonstrates project management lessons through colorful and delightful common forest birds and animals. Each page is a unique hand painted work of art by Kayla Johnson.


The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-10-09

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0199537801

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In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.


The Spectacle of Death

The Spectacle of Death

Author: Kristin Boudreau

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2006-04-04

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 161592745X

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In 1787, Benjamin Rush cautioned that public punishments were dangerous to the social and legal authority of the new nation. For Rush, irrepressible human sentiments all but guaranteed that public punishments would turn spectators against the institutions responsible for the punishments. Although public executions of criminals ended early in the 19th century, debate over the morality of capital punishment has continued to this day.In this unique and fascinating glimpse into public reactions to prominent executions, from colonial times to the 1990s, Kristin Boudreau focuses on the central role of populist, often ephemeral literary forms in shaping attitudes toward capital punishment. Surveying popular poems, ballads, plays, and novels, she shows that, at key times of social unrest in American history, many Americans have felt excluded by the political and legal processes, and have turned instead to inexpensive literary forms of expression in an attempt to change the course of history.Among the significant capital cases that the author discusses are: the Haymarket anarchist trial of 1886; the lynching of Leo Frank in 1914; the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 and its effects on the Civil Rights movement; Norman Mailer''s treatment of the Gary Gilmore case in the 1979 novel, The Executioner''s Song; and the 1998 execution of Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer who became a born-again Christian on death row.In the concluding chapter, Boudreau examines contemporary writers, musicians, actors, and other artists who are using their artistic media to influence official policies of states that permit capital punishment.By examining these neglected texts, Boudreau brings to light a compelling story about ordinary Americans fighting an entrenched legal system at times of great national crisis.