What if you could go back in time to change some things? What would you change? How would you change it? What if going back meant completely forgetting who you are and actually becoming your younger self, and all you could do is send yourself a message or two to help you? On top of that, it's a one-time, one-way trip, and you actually have to completely live your life all over again, with a 50% chance that the trip will make you go insane. Do you still want to try? This a story of a very different life than anyone has ever lived, because starting from age 6, Alan Hayes knows the future, or at least some of it, and he's going to try to change it as he lives his life again. But what will trying to change the future do to Alan and those he cares about? Richard Hasey was born and brought up in Bangor, Maine, where he graduated from Bangor High School. He has a BS from Norwich University, and a MBA from Babson College. After graduating from Norwich, Richard married his high school sweetheart, spent 6 years in the US Army, and earned a CPA License. Richard has written a number of technical papers over the years, and has only recently begun to write fiction. Currently, Richard is working as an independent contractor helping firms improve their compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the Enron Bill). Richard became a Christian when he was in college over 30 years ago, and the Lord has asked him to do many things that have challenged his faith, some of which have been alluded to in the stories he's written. Richard and his wife Jane live in Tewksbury, MA, and are still happily married after 33 years.

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“Whether you are managing your first project or your hundredth, you are likely to face new challenges. Project Pain Reliever offers guidance you'll cherish and want to keep close by.” —Kevin Murphy, Managing Partner, Conner Partners “This book is like a therapy session for project managers. I'm prescribing this to my team. No more guesswork for new PMs. Project Pain Reliever lays it all out, with a 360 degree view on all the possible scenarios a PM will face, and prescribes a strategy to deal with them. As a project manager, I'm often trying to help my team members understand why we cannot do certain things — like scope-creep. This book will serve as a great tool to educate and re-enforce!” —Laureen Heinz, PMP, CSM, Six Sigma Blackbelt, Managing Consultant, Practice Services, CA Technologies “This is a wonderful and thorough overview of a number of very common, yet complex, problems and solutions that project and functional managers of all levels can benefit from. The honest writing style and poignant anecdotes also make this an enjoyable read. I've added Project Pain Reliever to my team's professional reading list... it is equally applicable to everyone on my team — from the greenest summer intern to my most seasoned business leader.” —Aaron Hall, PMP, Vice President, Program Management and Product Development, K12 Inc. Much of the work performed in organizations around the world today is project oriented. Those responsible for leading the majority of these projects to successful results have varied educational backgrounds, knowledge, skill sets, and experiences gained over the course of their lives and careers that do not include the professional discipline known as project management. Most are managing projects as part of their role, not their profession. However, these accidental project managers frequently run into the same sort of issues and problems faced by those whose profession is project management, but they lack the education or training to properly address them. As a result, more projects run by accidental project managers fail than succeed.This handbook was developed specifically for those accidental project managers and for the relatively new project managers within the profession. It is uniquely organized in a manner designed to help these project managers quickly find specific solutions to the problems they are desperate to fix right now! The text is divided into two broad categories: the Art of Project Management and the Science of Project Management. Each part is divided into chapters to narrow the user's search by type of issue that project managers encounter, such as Planning and Managing Risks. These are then further divided by specific problems labeled as sub-chapters, such as 'The company's project management process doesn't work for me' and 'My project is too dependent on a few key people'. Project Pain Reliever: A Just-In-Time Handbook for Anyone Managing Projects is essentially a plug-and-play answer to the accidental project manager's problems, and a valuable desk reference for all project managers. Key Features: Presents insights and specific guidance from more than 30 leading project management experts that were sourced from around the world for their specialized knowledge and experience Provides quick references to problems often encountered by anyone managing projects and specific solutions to these problems using language that is easy to understand and techniques that can be applied immediately Each of the 93 sub-chapters brings clarity to the perceived problem, describes warning signs, includes a sidebar example, explains what will happen if you do nothing, and outlines a best practice solution and specific steps for solving the problem WAV offers handy "What you have learned" summaries for addressing problems contained within the book, additional problems with solutions, and other useful resources — available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com

An insiders' account of the ALMA mega-project, for a broad spectrum of readers from scientists and historians to general readers.

Step by step tutorial to build three projects including a demonstration, a simulation and a random SCORM-compliant quiz featuring all possible question slides. Enhance your projects by adding interactivity, animations, sound and more. Publish your project in a wide variety of formats enabling virtually any desktop and mobile devices to play your e-learning content. Deploy your e-Learning content on a SCORM or AICC-compliant LMS Learn by doing. Each concept is immediately explained with a meaningful exercise.