Project Management

Through PMO case studies from high-performing PMOs, operating within major enterprises, this book both explains and illustrates the practical implementation of PMO principles and theory.

One of the biggest success in the project field, in its 8th edition. This book approaches the project management technique in a practical and direct way, starting from the fundamental basic concepts up to the complex structures and advanced tool in the project control.

This book is another open contribution to the teaching of project management, which has 384 comments from 93 names among the most prominent in the area, in 131 strips.

Changing project management to project leadership isn’t easy, but the rewards can be significant. Hear from Ricardo and other 39 experts as they share leadership secrets that had a major impact on enterprise projects they managed.

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about two approaches in the management of very small projects. The first approach deals with the management of projects in a cluster. The second seeks to simplify the processes of project management, reducing management complexity.

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about a complex situation where a stakeholder, on the client-side, refuses to accept deliveries, seeking to impute contractual penalties to the company managing the project. Ricardo shows two actions, one preventive and one corrective, that can be taken.

In this podcast, Ricardo is incisive on commenting the relevance and importance of the correct use of project management software. He makes it clear that the fundamentals of project management can not be forgotten because they are much more important than the mastery of any existing software.

In this podcast, Ricardo gives tips for those who are wanting to change careers toward Project Management. He talks a bit about his own career and shows how we must be willing to break new ground, expanding our career options.

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the difference between cost and price. Many people are confused and Ricardo explains what's behind each one, differentiating them.

In this podcast, Ricardo invites us to think in the Project Management concepts as skills for the personal and professional lives of any person, not just project managers. Much of what is discussed in project management and many of its tools may be useful in various professions such as lawyers, teachers, writers, etc.

In this podcast, Ricardo pays homage to his friend and teacher Danúbio Becker Borba, who died recently. Prof. Danúbio was an example of a dedicated teacher and one of the volunteers founders of the chapter PMI São Paulo. He had special participation in designing the PMDome workshop and pioneered the use of the techniques of games for education in project management.

In this podcast, Ricardo gives us 5 tips on how to sell the idea of ​​project management to people outside the area, i.e., how we can do the right marketing for people with different perceptions of those from projects managers.

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about professor Salles who unfortunately left us a few days ago. He says that Salles was an extremely correct person, who was specialist in Project Management and much beloved by his students and colleagues. Ricardo also talks about the importance of the proximity between the PMI and the PM community in Brazil that Salles was ahead.

In this interview, Ricardo Vargas talks about his peculiar trajectory in the area of ​​project management consulting.

This is a Brazilian Portuguese document.