ePassport: The World's New Electronic Passport
Two years after publishing the very first book about the world's new electronic passport 'ePassport', the authors Jöran Beel, Béla Gipp, and Ivo Rössling publish a completely overworked version of their book in English. The new book 'ePassport: The World's New Electronic Passport' describes the basic details of the ePassport, gives a thorough overview of the technical specifications and then provides an in-depth analysis considering both, chances and risks of the new technology. Beside the explanation and analysis of biometric passports in general the introduction of the ePassport in Germany is considered in particular.

Former IBM Manager and biometric expert Henning Arendt recommends the book to "all those who as mature citizens of any country introducing the ePassport, feel a need for reading up on this topic, but specifically to all those persons responsible for the next stages of the ePassport". Read more...

Project Team Rewards: Rewarding and Motivating your Project Team
Much has been written about rewarding employees and much has been written about project management. However, very little has been written about how to reward employees in project management, respectively how to reward project teams. This book explains to what extend and under what conditions project team rewards should differ from rewards for line employees to be most effective in increasing the project teams’ motivation.

Throughout the book six main questions are considered that need to be answered for an effective reward system. These questions are:

1. Rewarding or not rewarding? (yes / no)
2. Whom to reward? (the team / individuals / ...)
3. What to reward? (results / behaviour / skills / ...)
4. What kind of reward? (money / gifts / certificates / ...)
5. How much reward? (x% of salary / lump sum / ...)
6. When to reward? (milestones / project end / ...)

To answer these questions special project characteristics such as the degree of change the project work means to the team members, member fluctuation between the project stages, or the urgency of a project are analysed. Read more...