Paul J Thomas – författare

Designed for graduate, advanced undergraduate, and practitioner project management courses with an information technology focus, Methods of IT Project Management is designed around the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), incorporating material from the latest seventh edition while still maintaining the book's process approach. The text provides students with all the concepts, techniques, artifacts, and methods found in the leading project management reference books and modern development methodologies (agile, hybrid, and traditional), while also conveying practical knowledge that can immediately be applied in real-world settings. This book uniquely integrates cutting-edge knowledge and techniques from the industry, ensuring that readers are equipped with the most current and relevant skills. Unlike other books in this area, the material is organized according to the sequence of a generic project life cycle—from project selection to initiation, planning, execution, control, and iteration or project closeout. Following this life-cycle approach, as opposed to covering the material by knowledge area or project performance domain, allows new learners to simultaneously study project management concepts and methods as they develop skills they can use immediately during and upon completion of the course. The text's structure also allows different programs to use the book during real-world projects.

Never before has anyone packed so much helpful information into one book for the time starved reader. Written by a veteran financial services executive and thought leader, Bite size advice is an indispensable tool for those wanting to increase their political, economic, social and technological literacy.Written in clear and concise language, it demystifies the key issues impacting our day-to-day lives and delivers invaluable advice in bite size chunks. Now you can find out everything you wanted to know about almost everything. WHAT are the pitfalls of over regulation?WHERE is disruptive technology taking us?WHEN does inequality become excessive?WHY is globalisation good for us?HOW is money created?WHO controls the economy?Bite size advice is a business book, an educational book and a general knowledge book. It is for anyone who wants to understand how the world works. Each chapter is faced-paced and provides great conversation starters. Bite size advice is poised to become the go-to resource for young and old alike.

Financial services CEO, Paul Thomas, made his debut as an author with Bite Size Advice - A Definitive Guide to Political, Economic, Social and Technological Issues. Now he is back with volume 2. This second installment of Bite Size Advice has the subtitle, The Lesson Continues, and is a veritable treasure trove for those with a thirst for knowledge. Yet again, the reader is presented with a collection of blog posts that provide an illuminating guide to the issues that are shaping politics, redesigning business, changing society and driving technology. Prepare to be educated, entertained and enlightened as you discover concise answers to important questions.IS government debt a bad thing?WHAT caused the Global Financial Crisis?WHERE is artificial intelligence headed?WHY is higher education important?HOW vital is banking to a modern economy?WILL driverless cars become ubiquitous?This is a practical guide that immediately takes hold of the reader’s inquisitive nature. Thoroughly engaging and brimming with information, barely a page goes by without an interesting fact. The snappy text is presented in bite-size nuggets and moves effortlessly from topic to topic.Paul offers a fresh voice, honest opinions and concise thinking as he skilfully examines some of today’s most topical issues. The writing is lucid while simultaneously being witty and wise. A must read for anyone who wants to understand how the world works.

Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in Astrobiology, this second edition revisits the role comets may have played in the origins and evolution of life. Recent analyses of Antarctic micrometeorites and ancient rocks in Australia and South Africa, the continuing progress in discovering complex organic macromolecules in comets, protostars and interstellar clouds, new insights into organic synthesis in comets, and numerical simulations of comet impacts on the Earth and other members of the solar system yield a spectacular wealth of new results.This second edition is thus actually a new book. As the first edition it is intended as a comprehensive review of current research, accessible to graduate students and others new to the field. Each chapter was prepared by experts to give an overview of an aspect of the field, and carefully revised by the editors for uniformity in style and presentation.

Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in Astrobiology, this second edition revisits the role comets may have played in the origins and evolution of life. Recent analyses of Antarctic micrometeorites and ancient rocks in Australia and South Africa, the continuing progress in discovering complex organic macromolecules in comets, protostars and interstellar clouds, new insights into organic synthesis in comets, and numerical simulations of comet impacts on the Earth and other members of the solar system yield a spectacular wealth of new results.This second edition is thus actually a new book. As the first edition it is intended as a comprehensive review of current research, accessible to graduate students and others new to the field. Each chapter was prepared by experts to give an overview of an aspect of the field, and carefully revised by the editors for uniformity in style and presentation.