This book is about the how of project management and about how you as a project manager can use a proactive attitude to stay in control, even during difficult situations. It shows you how to become an influencer of the path to the end result, of your environment, of your team and of your effectiveness.

Today’s project managers have to meet high expectations. Challenging goals, a strong focus on cost management and lead times, serving the interests of different stakeholders and many dependen...

Note: This pocket book is available in the following languages: English, German, Dutch.

This pocket guide is based on the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition. It contains a summary of the PMBOK® Guide, to provide a quick introduction as well as a structured overview of this framework for project management. This pocket guide deals with the key issues and themes within project management and the PMBOK® Guide as follows:

- Key terms and definitions in the project management profession

‘- A short ...

One mindset is that the project management process itself should be lead. You promote proactive project management by planning and evaluating relevant management initiatives – and by adapting the level of effort and the tools for the project’s degree of complexity. The entire book can be considered as a method with tools for such planning and evaluating the project management.

Another mindset is that the project management is not only a task for the project managers. The project owners, ...

Besides the MSP® 2011 Edition Practitioner Courseware - English (ISBN: 978 940 180 409 7) publication you are advised to obtain the corresponding publication Managing Successful Programmes 2011 Edition (ISBN: 978 01 133 1327 3).

The MSP Practitioner Certification is suitable for individuals wanting to demonstrate they have achieved sufficient understanding of how to apply and tailor the MSP methodology in a given scenario.

MSP represents proven programme management good practice in the suc...

Note: This book is available in several languages: Dutch, Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish.CONTAINS THE TEXT FOR THE FULL ISO/IEC STANDARDThis groundbreaking new title looks at the ISO/IEC 20000 Standard: the scope and the its basis on the concept of a quality management system. By explain the basic processes and functions within IT Service Management it describes for the reader some of the common concepts and definitions that are understood across the globe. It...

The ITIL pocket guides of Van Haren Publishing are since long

recognized as the industry classic guide on the topic of ITIL, in many

languages. Over the years this authoritative guide has earned its place

on the bookshelves and in the briefcases of industry experts as they

implement best practices within their organizations.

This pocket guide will provide readers with an understanding of the

ITIL 4 service management framework, by:

• understanding the key concepts of service management

• ...

This Courseware is suited for the PRINCE2® 2017 Edition Foundation exam.

Why take a PRINCE2® course?

There are six variables that present in every project. These variables need to be managed accordingly. The six variables are:

- Money

- Time

- Quality

- Scope

- Risks

- Benefits

PRINCE2® is an integrated framework of processes and themes that will provide handles for planning, delegating, supervising and maintaining the six aspects of project performance.

By using examples and assignments...

Service management has never been so important, as all organizations are either receiving or providing services to and from others. As digitization has spread through our organizations and culture, IT has become a vital part of our workplace. VeriSM™ provides guidance on how to manage the variety of service management approaches which have now become common practice. Often organizations do not know how to combine these approaches, or if they should adopt one or another in preference. VeriSM...