Earned Value Analysis was first developed and used in the construction industry. These days, and with the push by the Project Management Institute (PMI), it has started to be widely used in all types...

This eBook contains 50 puzzles or riddles with their solutions. The puzzles are brain teasers that require insight to solve but not brute force. Some of the puzzles rely on common sense only. Others are...

This eBook contains 20 card tricks learnt over the years and recently, from the web. The card tricks are not deceptive: no stacked decks, no bent cards, no sleight of hand. (Only one trick relies on a...

This eBook focuses on writing as a process (avoiding the specific aspects of project management that are outside the scope of the book). Writing can consist of a task covering a few days or a team based...

Monte Carlo Simulation is a numeric technique that allows the analyst to simulate a specific formulation by running the computation a large number of times (typically in the thousands). In each model,...

Monte Carlo Simulation is a numeric technique that allows the analyst to simulate a specific formulation by running the computation a large number of times (typically in the thousands). In each model,...

This is one of two eBooks that cover the full cycle of planning, tracking and controlling projects. This first eBook covers the various activities needed to plan a project as setup in 6 stages: setup...

This is the second of two eBooks that cover the full cycle of planning, tracking and controlling projects. This eBook focuses on the very elaborate facilities of in Microsoft Project needed to track the...

This eBook contains 50 puzzles or riddles with their solutions. The puzzles are brain teasers that require insight to solve but not brute force. Some of the puzzles rely on common sense only. Others are...

This eBook contains 50 puzzles or riddles with their solutions. The puzzles are brain teasers that require insight to solve but not brute force. Some of the puzzles rely on common sense only. Others are...

Akram has always been fascinated by the way children think. He believes that somewhere along the line, we spoil their imagination and creative outlook. This eBook remembers how children can easily absorb...

Around 30 short stories with a non-narrative bent. Fantasies? Logically warped situations? Some very short, almost half a page. These stories saw the light when the author was around 40 satisfying the...

When in his forties, Akram wrote his first poem, having been drawn to poetry since his teens. He wrote several more and realized soon that many were focusing on internal emotional issues, particular to...