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The Complete Project Manager:

Integrating Technical, People, and Organizational Skills

by Alfonso Bucero and Randall L. Englund

Contenido

The Complete Project Manager integrates key technical, people, business, and organizational skills. This upcoming book provides the means to do so, providing insights, experiences, and examples, written in a passionate, motivational style.  Success in any environment largely depends upon completing successful projects, and successful projects get done by skilled project managers and teams, supported by effective project sponsors.  It is the integration across a spectrum of skills that enables certain individuals to make a difference and achieve more optimized outcomes. The ultimate aim of the book is to help you the reader develop a complete set of skills that is the right set for you to excel in today’s competitive environment.

Autors

Alfonso Bucero, is a PMP (Project Management Professional), Founder and Partner of BUCERO PM Consulting. He was a Senior Project Manager for Hewlett-Packard Spain in Madrid for more than thirteen years. He joined PMI as a member in 1993 and he is also a member of AEPM, ALI, and AEIPRO. He was the founder and former president for PMI Barcelona Chapter and International PM Assessor for GPMA. Alfonso has a Computer Science Engineering degree by the Polithecniocal University (Madrid), he has 28 years of experience. He has managed projects in Spain, Italy, Portugal and US. He is a frequent speaker at local and international Conferences and Congresses since 1994. Alfonso has delivered PM consulting and training services in Spain, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Czequia, France, Greece, Russia, Denmark, Holland, Poland, Rumania, USA, Mexico and Singapur. Alfonso is co-author of the book “Project Sponsorship – Achieving Management Commitment for project success”, that was published by Jossey-Bass editors on May 2006. Since 2004 publishes periodically a column in the PM Network magazine, published by the “Project Management Institute”.

Availability

This book will be published by Management Concepts by the beginning of 2012

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Today is a Good Day

by Alfonso Bucero

Index

Prologue. Chapter 1: Your attitude; Chapter 2: How to attract project success. Chapter 3: Prepare a plan to be successful. Chapter 4: Commitment. Chapter 5: Convert your problems into opportunities. Chapter 6: Your word makes the difference. Chapter 7: How are you. Chapter 8: Not complain about your projects. Chapter 9: Associate with positive proffesionals. Chapter 10: Grow from your tears. Chapter 11: Get out there and fail. Chapter 12: Networking. Chapter 13: Conclusions. Glossary.

Content

This book is a quick guide to improve your attitude as a project manager, as a team member or as an executive or sponsor. The author explains how positive attitude can move mountains. Everybody can choose his/her attitude, you cannot change the facts but you can choose your reactions in front of them.

This book is easy to read because of the use of graphics for its explanation and some case studies that belong to the professional life of his author. This book is highly recommended for executives and project managers that need to lead by example.

This book may be used by organizations, business schools and Universities for professional soft skills training and development.

Author

Alfonso Bucero, is a PMP (Project Management Professional), Founder and Partner of BUCERO PM Consulting. He was a Senior Project Manager for Hewlett-Packard Spain in Madrid for more than thirteen years. He joined PMI as a member in 1993 and he is also a member of AEPM, ALI, and AEIPRO. He was the founder and former president for PMI Barcelona Chapter and International PM Assessor for GPMA. Alfonso has a Computer Science Engineering degree by the Polithecniocal University (Madrid), he has 28 years of experience. He has managed projects in Spain, Italy, Portugal and US. He is a frequent speaker at local and international Conferences and Congresses since 1994. Alfonso has delivered PM consulting and training services in Spain, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Czequia, France, Greece, Russia, Denmark, Holland, Poland, Rumania, USA, Mexico and Singapur. Alfonso is co-author of the book “Project Sponsorship – Achieving Management Commitment for project success”, that was published by Jossey-Bass editors on May 2006. Since 2004 publishes periodically a column in the PM Network magazine, published by the “Project Management Institute”.

Availability

This book is available at: www.amazon.com

Dirección de Proyectos – Una Nueva Visión

by Alfonso Bucero

Index

Prologue, The author. Chapter 1: What do you need to do to initiate a project? Chapter 2: The project management keys. Chapter 3: Verify the project feasibility. Chapter 4: People as a key element for project success. Chapter 5: Project planning. Chapter 6: Planning project activities and resources. Chapter 7: Project implementation, monitoring and control. Chapter 8: The difficulty of closing a project. Chapter 9: The project review and knowledge management. Chapter 10: The environment as a restriction for project success. Chapter 11: The Sponsor. Chapter 12: The Subcontractors. Chapter 13: The projects in e-commerce. Epilogue. Glossary.

Content

This book is  a “Project Management Easy Guide” for the today executive, that follows the detailed steps that need to be given to be able to manage a project. Project management believer and practitioner, the autor, consultant, professor and frequent speaker at international Congresses, explains step by step the interesting adventure of project management, its problems, the people inviolved, the guidelines to follow. The concepts and suggestions that this book offers are the result from the experience and work from the author, from the failures and successes managing projects and from his relationship with other professionals from the art and discipline of project management.

Author

Alfonso Bucero, is a PMP (Project Management Profesional), Founder and Partner of BUCERO PM Consulting. He was a Senior Project Manager for Hewlett-Packard Spain in Madrid for more than thirteen years. He joined PMI as a member in 1993 and he is also a member of AEPM, ALI, AEIPRO. He was the founder and former president for PMI Barcelona Chapter and International PM Assessor for GPMA. Alfonso has a Computer Science Engineering degree by the Polithecniocal University (Madrid), he has 28 years of experience. He has managed projects in España, Italy, Portugal and US. He is a frequent speaker at local and international Conferences and Congresses since 1994. Alfonso has delivered PM consulting and training services in Spain, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Czequia, France, Greece, Russia, Denmark, Holland, Poland, Rumania, USA, Mexico and Singapur. Alfonso is co-author of the book “Project Sponsorship – Achieving Management Commitment for project success”, that was published by Jossey-Bass editors on May 2006. Since 2004 publishes periodically a column in the PM Network magazine, published by the “Project Management Institute”.

Use

Text recomnmended for Project management students (Computer Science Engineers, Civil and Telecommunication Engineers). Furthermore, this book is addressed to Business Schools for post degree training courses.

Availability

This book can only be acquired through BUCERO PM Consulting

Project Sponsorship

Why do we need project sponsorship?

People understand different project roles when they develop insight about the value of doing projects well and how people can contribute. This book is for executives or managers who are, or will be, sponsors of a project or program. The secondary audience is project managers, project leaders, and facilitators—the people most dependent upon project sponsors to set the stage and support their success. These people need to instantly snatch up this book to seek guidance about how to recruit and manage their sponsors.

Many executives are assigned as project sponsors, but their organizations do not spend time training and explaining their expected roles and responsibilities during project life cycles.  The accidental project manager role is well known, and the same applies to sponsors.

The sponsor role can have a tremendous impact on project success. However, reality is quite different. In our experience, the sponsor role appears confused in many organizations. Sometimes the sponsor is not very involved in the project. On the other hand, sometimes the project sponsor is too involved and acts or tries to act as a super project manager, generating more conflict and problems.

Management support is always needed during the project life cycle. In fact, the sentence: “we need more management support” is very common in most organizations. In every project, the project manager and his/her team needs management support. Each project needs a single sponsor. In contrast, avoid multiple sponsors because that usually equals no sponsorship. To give effective management support, managers need to know what is expected from them. Many sponsors do not know very much about the projects they are sponsoring, and no one has explained to them what the meaning of project sponsorship is.

According to a study of change management research, “the number one contributor to project success is visible and effective sponsorship.”  Participants cited “the top changes they would make regarding project communications in the future would be to incorporate more frequent communications earlier in the project, conduct more fact-to-face communications, offer more communications from executive sponsors and senior managers, and deliver more information about the impact of the change.”  Furthermore, “Many managers spend the better part of their time focusing on technology or system issues surrounding organizational changes, rather than creating a comprehensive plan to facilitate critical communications with all the sponsors and target audiences that will be impacted.”

Availability

This book is available at: www.amazon.com