Books and Papers

Books

Making Sense of Agile Project Management - Balancing Control and Agility

This is a draft of a new book.

Balancing the need for becoming more agile with the traditional project management emphasis on control and predictability is a very strategic issue for all businesses that rely on effective project management throughout many areas of their business. This book examines this apparent conflict and resolves some of the misconceptions behind it and discusses what this trend means to Project Managers and the project management profession.

From Quality to Business Excellence: A Systems Approach to Management

This book outlines the principles behind developing an approach to business management that integrates all aspects of a company's business into a very well-aligned and cross-functional perspective to maximize the success of the company. This book has been published in English and Chinese, has been used as a text book in several business schools, and won a "Golden Quill" award from the American Society for Quality".

Enterprise Process Mapping: Integrating Systems For Compliance And Business Excellence

This book provides instructions and a Visio-based Enterprise Process Mapping tool for helping to design and implement effective, well-integrated business management systems to implement the approach described in the Business Excellence book above. The book includes an evaluation copy of Microsoft Visio and an evaluation copy of the ProcessMaps tool.

Papers

Sarbanes-Oxley:Pain or Gain?

This is a feature article that was published in Quality Progress magazine.

  • Meeting the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements can be painful and costly
  • It can also be an opportunity for a company to tighten its management practices and improve its business
This article discusses how to use systems thinking and enterprise level process mapping to design controls into your financial management and reporting processes