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

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


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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:
Foreword xi Max Wideman Acknowledgments xvii The Author xxi Introduction 1 Part One: A Practical Guide to Project Portfolio Management 11 Section One: What Is Project Portfolio Management, and Why Do We Need It? 13 1.1 Why Do We Need Project Portfolio Management? 15 1.2 What Is Project Portfolio Management? 22 Section Two: The Fundamentals of a Project Portfolio Management Process 29 2.1 Selecting Projects for the Pipeline 33 2.2 Maintaining the Pipeline 42 2.3 Executing Project Portfolio Management 52 2.4 Tools for Project Portfolio Management 59 2.5 Implementing Project Portfolio Management 78 Section Three: The Finer Points of Project Portfolio Management 85 3.1 Defining PPM: A Bridge or a Hub? 89 3.2 A Prequalification Process for Selecting Projects for the Portfolio 93 3.3 The Impact of Uncertainty on Projects and the Portfolios 99 3.4 Is There a Gorilla in Your Portfolio? Turning Opportunity into Value 109 3.5 Work Breakdown Structures for Risk and Strategies 115 3.6 An Introduction to Earned Value Analysis 123 Part Two: Contributed Chapters and Case Studies 133 Section Four: PPM Techniques and Issues: Portfolio Planning 135 4.1 Linking Strategy and Project Portfolio Management 137 K. C. Yelin 4.2 How to Determine the Value of a Project 146 Ray Trotta, Christopher Gardner 4.3 Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Improve Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 155 James Devlin 4.4 The Efficient Frontier Technique for Analyzing Project Portfolio Management 176 Mike Gruia Section Five: PPM Techniques and Issues: Organizing and Implementing 183 5.1 Making the Case for Project Portfolio Management 185 Clifford B. Cohen, Randall L. Englund 5.2 The Role of Executives in Effective Project Portfolio Management 217 K. C. Yelin 5.3 Project Offices Are Key Components of IT Governance 228 Matt Light Section Six: PPM Applications: Information Technology 233 6.1 A Summary of First Practices and Lessons Learned in Information Technology Portfolio Management 235 Federal CIO Council, Best Practices Committee 6.2 The Backbone System of IT Management and Governance: IT Management and Governance 101 267 David Hurwitz Section Seven: PPM Applications: New Product Development 279 7.1 A Stage-Gate® Idea-to-Launch Framework for Driving New Products to Market 281 Robert G. Cooper 7.2 Portfolio Management for Product Innovation 318 Robert G. Cooper Section Eight: Applications: PPM for Theory of Constraint Advocates 355 8.1 Applying the Theory of Constraints to Project Portfolio Management 357 Larry Leach Section Nine: Case Studies 391 9.1 Managing Your Technology Pipeline Portfolio Management Process and Its Evolution over Time 393 Rebecca Seibert 9.2 Using PPM to Ease the Hewlett-Packard– Compaq Merger 422 Don Kingsberry 9.3 Developing a PPM Capability at America Online 447 Rich Dougherty 9.4 EW Scripps: A Media Giant’s Portfolio Management Solution 456 Vanessa McMillan Section Ten: What Others Are Saying About PPM 461 10.1 Beyond the Triple Constraints: Developing a Business Venture Approach to Project Management 463 Robert J. Graham, Dennis Cohen 10.2 From Overload to Productivity via Systematic Decision Making 474 James Schlick, Andrew Longman 10.3 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective IT Portfolio Management Implementations 482 Gil Makleff 10.4 Project Portfolio Management Basics 492 PMI Knowledge and Wisdom Center 10.5 Integrating Project Portfolio Management with Project Management Practices to Deliver Competitive Advantage 496 James S. Pennypacker, Patrick Sepate Notes 507 Index 522

About the Author :
Harvey A. Levine has been a project management specialist and consultant since 1962. In addition to contributing to PM journals and web sites, Levine provides applications, system design, and consulting services in project planning and control. He served as president and chairman of the board of directors of the Project Management Institute and is a PMI fellow. He is the author of Practical Project Management from John Wiley & Sons.

Review :
“…a valuable reference for theory and analysis…” (Supply Management, December 2005)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780787977542
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 560
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0787977543
  • Publisher Date: 12 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 43 mm
  • Weight: 771 gr


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