Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits

Foreword

With all that has been written on and about project management over the past decade, you might be forgiven for thinking that surely there cannot be anything new to say. Indeed, some eminent practitioners have even stated categorically that little has advanced in these ten years. But in the past five, the management of projects has risen to a new prominence. Projects are seen as critical to success in all three sectors: public, private, and nonprofit.

The impact of projects on contemporary society is immense, but the evident wastage through improper selection of projects or their improper formulation (or both) is equally immense. Collectively this represents a serious diminution of our collective capital assets and consequent drag on ...