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  • US Defense Industry Offsets

    The Presidential Exception for National Security

    by Brian Hobbs ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book examines U.S. Government promotion of defense industry offsets, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.Defense industry offsets are extra benefits that exporters add to arms deals to meet importer demands beyond basic transactions, often considered essential for exporter success. Nonetheless, the so-called “hands off” presidential policy on offsets is often misunderstood as an ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Project Portfolios in Dynamic Environments

    Organizing for Uncertainty

    Project Portfolios in Dynamic Environments: Organizing for Uncertainty is a comprehensive report of research that addresses this important, rising issue. Authors Yvan Petit and Brian Hobbs present the results of their investigation in a report that significantly advances the theory and also offers tips for practice. Currently, those applying project portfolio management tend to focus on the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Project Management Office (PMO)

    A Quest for Understanding

    Since project management offices began to appear in organizations over the last decade, project management practitioners and their organizations have been asking how to structure project management offices (PMOs) and what functions to assign them. In The Project Management Office (PMO): A Quest For Understanding, authors Brian Hobbs and Monique Aubry address these questions, providing a look at ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections

    A Story of Hope, Healing, Facing Fears, and Finding Purpose

    Reflections takes readers on an honest journey through dealing with fears, coming to term with illness, facing death, and acceptance.Reflections is a gripping story written from two perspectives: Brian Hobbs, a songwriter with a terminal cancer diagnosis with months to live, and Fia Hobbs, his caregiving wife as well as his therapist.They share with readers their journey through hope, despair, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations

    Creativity and productivity, rapid adaptation to change, value for the customer—these are just some of the advantages of implementing agile practices in project work. However, agile practices have been most widely and successfully undertaken in the context of small, colocated teams working on small software projects, known as the "agile sweet spot."In this monograph, Brian Hobbs and Yvan Petit ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice

    Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice contributes to a better understanding of project management practice by investigating the use and usefulness of project management practices, tools, and techniques. The study examines practice variations among organizational, project management, and project contexts and performance. The use of project management practices, tools, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs

    Project Management Offices (PMOs) are not etched in stone. They are complex entities which go through frequent transformations during their average two-year life span. So, what does that mean to project professionals? Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs answers this question for both researchers and practitioners based on a three-year research effort focused on the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowing the Suffering of Others

    Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings

    In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to international human rights, domestic violence to torture, and the law of war to victim impact statements, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Psychology and Management of Project Teams

    Organizations today are increasingly using projects in their daily activities. Projects and project-management principles frame goal attainment in academia and many business sectors, and they even serve as theoretical footing for organizational-change endeavors. However, the ubiquity of project management does not mean that project work, project teams, and the ways organizations use projects are ... Read more

    $88.19 USD