The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, 5th Edition

Part 5Advancing Your Practice of Project Management

There is always a new way to improve our project management ability. At a personal level, we can learn to use the technology that's been designed to apply the techniques presented in previous chapters, and we can pursue the Project Management Professional certification. Organizations can improve their project management ability by creating consistency in their approach to selecting and managing projects.

Part 5 contains five chapters that each address a different opportunity for individuals and organizations to extend and improve their practice of project management.

Chapter 18, on enterprise project management (EPM) presents a framework for organizing a project-driven organization. It contains the current practices that organizations use for managing multiple projects with shared resources. Chapter 18 also sets a context for Chapter 20.

Chapter 19 introduces requirements engineering, a discipline that is essential to project success. Failure in establishing and managing requirements undermines all the hard work done to define, plan, and control the project as described in the first four parts of this book.

Chapter 20 changes the perspective from effective management of projects, to viewing projects as investments. Project Portfolio Management views projects as a means to achieve strategic goals.

Passing the Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional exam is a milestone in a project manager's career. Chapter ...