Book description
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond the typical project management approach to offer a set of proven business practices that can help executives, program managers, and project managers bring projects into alignment with the strategies, resources, and executive oversight of the overall enterprise. Step by step, this book shows how to take a project from the inception of a vision to the realization of benefits to the organization. Project Portfolio Management draws on project management expert Harvey A. Levine's years of research and distills the knowledge and best practices from dozens of leaders in the field to show how to select and implement the projects that will garner the best results. Throughout this important resource, Levine tackles the many challenges associated with PPM, including
Ranking value and benefits
Determining the size of the portfolio pipeline
Assessing the impact of uncertainty on projects and portfolios
Understanding the benefit and risk relationship
Establishing a portfolio governance capability
Managing the portfolio to maximize benefits
Implementing PPM
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- The Author
- Introduction
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PART ONE - A Practical Guide to Project Portfolio Management
- SECTION ONE - What Is Project Portfolio Management, and Why Do We Need It?
- SECTION TWO - The Fundamentals of a Project Portfolio Management Process
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SECTION THREE - The Finer Points of Project Portfolio Management
- 3.1 - Defining PPM
- 3.2 - A Prequalification Process for Selecting Projects for the Portfolio
- 3.3 - The Impact of Uncertainty on Projects and the Portfolios
- 3.4 - Is There a Gorilla in Your Portfolio?
- 3.5 - Work Breakdown Structures for Risk and Strategies
- 3.6 - An Introduction to Earned Value Analysis
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PART TWO - Contributed Chapters and Case Studies
- SECTION FOUR - PPM Techniques and Issues
- SECTION FIVE - PPM Techniques and Issues
- SECTION SIX - PPM Applications
- SECTION SEVEN - PPM Applications
- SECTION EIGHT - Applications
- SECTION NINE - Case Studies
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SECTION TEN - What Others Are Saying About PPM
- 10.1 - Beyond the Triple Constraints
- 10.2 - From Overload to Productivity via Systematic Decision Making
- 10.3 - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective IT Portfolio Management Implementations
- 10.4 - Project Portfolio Management Basics
- 10.5 - Integrating Project Portfolio Management with Project Management ...
- Notes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2005
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780787977542
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