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Every project your team undertakes needs to be productive.

In simple terms, for a project to be productive, the income it produces needs to be greater than its expenses.

If projects are shipped late, expenses increase, which means the projects income needs to increase in order for it to remain productive.

Unproductive projects result in an uncompetitive business and customers choose to go elsewhere.

So how productive is your team?

Are you building the right things, and delivering them cost-effectively?

If you want to learn how the leading teams deliver productive projects, check out our books below:

The Project Book

Projects are the lifeblood of organisations, but many projects fall short of expectations because of poor project management and/or poor project sponsorship. In The Project Book, Colin D Ellis teaches you the skills and behaviours required to make your projects succeed, every time.

Accidental Project Manager

Designed to increase success, this book is for accidental and new project managers, project management learners, and those exploring project management careers or looking for a refresher. Told in the form of a business fable, concepts are put in everyday terms and stories make it more memorable.

Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid, 8th Edition

This comprehensive resource examines traditional, agile, and extreme project management techniques; the Enterprise Project Management Model; and Kanban and Scrumban methodologies

Scrum: Novice to Ninja

Create a highly effective and flexible work process. Using a practical team example, you'll learn why scrum works so well, the roles, rituals, artifacts and contracts in a scrum process, as well as the lifecycle of a story, adapting and transitioning to scrum.

Think First

In this book, Joe Natoli outlines his no-nonsense approach to creating successful products, memorable user experiences, and very happy customers.

Practical Kanban

This book will give you practical answers to these questions: Are we using Kanban properly? How can we improve our Kanban? How can we scale our Kanban? How can our work become more predictable? How can we prioritize?

The DevOps Adoption Playbook

This award-winning book provides actionable, real-world guidance on implementing DevOps in large-scale enterprise IT environments, explaining how to achieve high-value innovation and optimization with low cost and risk, and exceed traditional business goals with higher product release efficiency.

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

Use Vagrant to easily build complete development environments. Implement DevOps with Vagrant effectively. Integrate Vagrant with different tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Docker. Manage infrastructure with a practical approach.

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