Digital Project Practice: Managing Innovation and Change

by Tobias Endress, Aditya Chandak, Majid Dadgar

This book provides hands-on insights and encourages readers to challenge existing methods and processes.

The management of digital projects requires professional and state-of-the-art methods, tools, and techniques. In this book, the authors pass on practical approaches from their experiences in the field.

The authors also critically acclaim existing methods and discuss their limitations. In particular, the book covers the following topics:

- Methods and Best Practices;

- Tools and Techniques;

- Soft Skills, Team Dynamics, and Human Resources.

Thirteen international subject matter experts contributed to this book. The objective is two-fold. First, the authors aim to further the discussion on business practices and methods. Second, the authors aim to stimulate the professional community. Senior professionals can benchmark their activities, while junior professionals can apply proven methods from this book.

244 pages, Hardcover

Published July 31, 2020

About the author

Dr. Tobias Endress works as an assistant professor at the AIT School of Management in Bangkok and as a freelance business consultant. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in digital project business and innovation management. He has a background in business, technology and finance industry.

Beyond that, he is interested in travelling and sailing. At the moment he is on a world trip with a Najad 34 sailing yacht (SY MAYA) and follows the “barefoot route”.

Some of his publications
- Digital Project Practice: Managing Innovation and Change
- Banking & Innovation 2015: Ideen und Erfolgskonzepte von Experten für die Praxis
- Digital Governance and Social Media Engagement

Reviews

[Alireza Hejazi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Digital Project Practice is a call to new thinking on project management (PM). It contains an extensive discussion of managing change and innovation projects. It is a reliable source of education for everyone interested in learning project management techniques in an age that is driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The competitive advantage of this book compared to similar titles resides in its systematic approach. The book editor has proposed a system that operates by empathizing, defining, and generating new ideas. Those elements can be improved constantly through an empowering cycle of tests and reviews aimed at delivering better outputs. This book is a compendium of ideas on PM developed in 13 chapters by experts who have been discussing different aspects of PM in a multi-perspective manner.

[Kerry Wekelo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Digital Project Practice provides a compilation of expert advice on managing digital projects. As a technology practitioner, I found the book packed with tools and exercises to enhance the way we manage our projects at work. I always learn from others and have all combined into one book, which was a brilliant way to expand my project management techniques.

[Douglas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Digital Project Practice is a compilation of up-to-date advice on managing software development from thirteen international experts in the field. Tools and exercises are discussed to build and refine your knowledge of Scrum, Kanban and core Agile concepts while exploring how they all fit together.

Agile practices help to discover requirements and to develop solutions through the collaborative efforts of self-organizing and cross-functional teams involving stakeholders and customers. The chapters advocate adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continual improvement, and encourage flexible responses to change with a strong focus on the human/social aspects.

Highly recommended for software development teams.