Middle Managers In Program And Project Portfolio Management

Author : Tomas Blomquist
Publisher : Project Management Institute
ISBN 13 : 1628251239
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Managers in Program and Project Portfolio Management written by Tomas Blomquist and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing "projectization" of organizations has led to a greater reliance on program and project portfolio management, and middle managers are playing a central role in the management of multiple simultaneous projects. Experienced project managers understand the value of defining project roles and responsibilities, but what are middle managers' roles and responsibilities in program and project portfolio management? What are the best practices of successful companies today?

Author : Ralf Müller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680154276
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Managers in Program and Project Portfolio Management written by Ralf Müller and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ramani S
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315359952
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Business Performance written by Ramani S and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No organization is impervious to change. Rather, the survival and growth of an organization is dependent on how well it copes with change. Successful change initiatives consist of the integrated eco-system of its portfolio, programs, and projects. These change initiatives become the delivery mechanisms for implementing the strategy of an organization. Improving Business Performance: A Project Portfolio Management Approach clarifies how the proper application of portfolio, program, and project management concepts can help commercial and non-profit organizations achieve their strategic objectives. Most organizations have been good at devising strategy, but falter during its implementation. Executing strategy well to deliver superior business performance remains a key challenge, which is addressed as the core theme of this book. The book portrays a top-down orientation as well as a bottom-up integration of change initiatives to facilitate alignment to strategy and accommodate mid-course changes. It takes into account existing global best management practices to bring forth an approach that is customizable and useful to organizations in any industry. Describing why portfolio management lies at the apex of change initiative management, the book explains how to design and fine-tune portfolios so they are in alignment with your organization’s overall strategy and business needs. After reading this book, you will understand: How to design the project portfolio structure for your organization How to integrate programs and projects within the portfolio more effectively How to better manage interactions across diverse change initiatives How to maintain focus while managing change to realize benefits The book presents a case study that illustrates the application of project portfolio concepts in practical scenarios. It includes chapters dedicated to transition management, change management, benefits management, and the Enterprise Project Management Office. It also includes templates you can immediately put to use in your own portfolios, programs, and projects.

Author : Harvey A. Levine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118002563
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Portfolio Management written by Harvey A. Levine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : EPMC, Inc.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118276396
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Portfolio Management written by EPMC, Inc. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by ten successful project portfolio managers from companies including AAA, Boeing, Franklin Templeton, Johnson & Johnson, Safeway, and the UK Government, this easy-to-follow guide takes you through the project portfolio management process. It's based on what actually works, giving you a clear road map and the tools needed to determine the optimal mix and sequencing of projects in order to meet your organization's goals. The book begins by explaining basic PPM principles and why PPM is more critical than ever for business success. This introduction is followed by a story, tracking the experiences of a manager new to PPM as he discovers the issues that all of us face in trying to get traction with our PPM initiatives. In answering the questions our story raises, the book then details each step of the PPM process, using cases and examples drawn from the authors' first hand experience to help you address such key questions as: Which projects should our organization invest in? How can we optimize our organization's capacity? How well are we executing the PPM process? Can our organization absorb all the changes that our PPM plan requires? Are we achieving all the expected benefits? The authors are all members of the Enterprise Portfolio Management Council, a group of senior portfolio management executives dedicated to helping organizations develop their own portfolio management capabilities. Now you can benefit from their collective wisdom and experience, and duplicate their successful results within your own organization.

Author : Gary Lister
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0133839745
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering Project, Program, and Portfolio Management written by Gary Lister and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn powerful techniques for successfully managing modern projects, programs, and portfolios in any environment, no matter how complex. Mastering Project, Program, and Portfolio Management addresses several make-or-break issues associated with successful project management: organizational structure, linkages between project management and operations, and definitions and interrelationships amongst projects, programs and portfolios. Unlike other books, which address these issues only in passing, this book drills down to offer practical, real-world concepts, in-the-trenches insights, and proven applications. You'll learn how to: Plan projects and strategies to reflect your organization's needs and structures Develop and implement a successful Project Management Office (PMO) Organize projects, programs, and portfolios Systematically maximize the business value of project management This book is part of a new series of six cutting-edge project management guides for both working practitioners and students. Like all books in this series, it offers deep practical insight into the successful design, management, and control of complex modern projects. Using real case studies and proven applications, expert authors show how multiple functions and disciplines can and must be integrated to achieve a successful outcome. Individually, these books focus on realistic, actionable solutions, not theory. Together, they provide comprehensive guidance for working project managers at all levels, as well as indispensable knowledge for anyone pursuing PMI/PMBOK certification or other accreditation in the field.

Author : Thorsten Frey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658056614
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governance Arrangements for IT Project Portfolio Management written by Thorsten Frey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the growing importance of IT-based innovations, contemporary firms face an excessive number of proposals for IT projects. As typically only a fraction of these projects can be implemented with the given capacity, IT project portfolio management as a relatively new discipline has received growing attention in research and practice in recent years. Thorsten Frey demonstrates how companies are struggling to find the right balance between local autonomy and central overview about all projects in the organization. In this context, impacts of different contextual factors on the design of governance arrangements for IT project portfolio management are demonstrated. Moreover, consequences of the use of different organizational designs are analyzed. The author presents insights from a qualitative empirical study as well as a simulative approach.

Author : Ginger Levin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466578505
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Program Management written by Ginger Levin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Program management is a rapidly emerging offshoot of project management. So much so that AT&T, IBM, and other organizations, both large and small in all sectors, have initiated a push to certify program managers. And, although universities offer courses in program management, there are few books available to guide program managers through this

Author : Romano, Luca
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522521526
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Portfolio Management Strategies for Effective Organizational Operations written by Romano, Luca and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuous improvements in project portfolio management have allowed for optimized strategic planning and business process improvement. This not only leads to more streamlined processes, methods, and technologies, but it increases the overall productivity of companies. Project Portfolio Management Strategies for Effective Organizational Operations is a key resource on the latest advances and research regarding strategic initiatives for portfolio and program management. Highlighting multidisciplinary studies on value creation, portfolio governance and communication, and integrated circular models, this publication is an ideal reference source for professionals, researchers, business managers, consultants, and university students in economics, management, and engineering.

Author : Peerasit Patanakul
Publisher : Project Management Institute
ISBN 13 : 1628251352
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effectiveness in Project Portfolio Management written by Peerasit Patanakul and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join project management researcher-practitioners from Pennsylvania State University and the Stevens Institute of Technology as they go inside five different organizations from across the business spectrum in search of the answers. These dramatically different organizations, which ranged from financial services and telecommunications, to technology and government-based R&D, all shared one thing: the reliance upon effective project portfolio management for their success. In this landmark study, researchers were granted unprecedented access to reams of internal project documentation and hours of one-on-one time with key personnel, from C-Suite and project management executives to front-line staff. This enabled the team to assemble the inside story of how project portfolios were actually managed in each of these organizations, and identify what worked and what didn't. Using this understanding and a comprehensive literature review as a foundation, they created an empirically grounded definition of project portfolio management effectiveness that can be applied to organizations of all kinds. They were then able to identify the five critical process, organizational, and human factors that impact project portfolio management effectiveness and propose common-sense criteria for accurately measuring it.