About the Book
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a term used by project managers and project management (PM) organizations, (or PMOs), to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics. The fundamental objective of PPM is to determine the optimal mix and sequencing of proposed projects to best achieve the organization's overall goals - typically expressed in terms of hard economic measures, business strategy goals, or technical strategy goals - while honoring constraints imposed by management or external real-world factors. Typical attributes of projects being analyzed in a PPM process include each project's total expected cost, consumption of scarce resources (human or otherwise) expected timeline and schedule of investment, expected nature, magnitude and timing of benefits to be realized, and relationship or inter-dependencies with other projects in the portfolio. This book is your ultimate resource for Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Project Portfolio Management (PPM) right away, covering: Project portfolio management, Glossary of project management, List of project management topics, Project management, Karol Adamiecki, Aggregate planning, Aggregate Project Plan, Arrow Diagramming Method, Association for Project Management, Assumption-based planning, Authority (management), Gregory Balestrero, Bid manager, Big data, Big Hairy Audacious Goal, Bill of quantities, Bottleneck, Budgeted cost of work performed, Burn down chart, Business analysis, Business case, Case competition, Cash flow diagram, Centre for Project Management Practice, Certified Associate in Project Management, Changes clause, Code name, Collaborative planning software, Commissioning Management Systems, Conceptual Fusion, Concurrent engineering, Cone of Uncertainty, Constructability, Control limits, Costab, Creep (project management), Critical assumption planning, Critical Chain (novel), Critical Chain Project Management, Critical path method, Decision table, Deliverable, Dependency (project management), Design review (US Government), Design structure matrix, DICE framework, Doctor of Project Management, Duration (project management), Dynamic Systems Development Method, Earned schedule, Earned value management, Effective Development Group, Effort management, Elemental cost planning, Enterprise project management, Estimation (project management), Event chain diagram, Event chain methodology, Executive sponsor, Expected commercial value, Expediting, Extreme project management, Fast-track construction, Feasibility study, Feature Driven Development, Feature model, Financial plan, Financial planning (business), Flexible product development, Float (project management), Front-end loading, Gantt chart, Henry Gantt, Tom Gilb, Goal, The Goal (novel), GOTChA Chart, Grandfather principle, Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique, Graphical path method, A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Hammock activity, Gregory T. Haugan, HERMES$method, Geert Hofstede, Identifying and Managing Project Risk, In-database processing, Indian Institute of Project Management, Initiative (enterprise), Integrated master plan, The International Association of Project and Program Management, International Project Management Association, ISO 10006, Iterative and incremental development...and much more This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Project Portfolio Management (PPM). It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) with the objectivity of experienced professionals.
