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

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ISBN-10: 0787977543

ISBN-13: 9780787977542

Edition: 2005

Authors: Harvey A. Levine, Max Wideman

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $73.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/20/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgments
The Author
Introduction
A Practical Guide to Project Portfolio Management
What Is Project Portfolio Management, and Why Do We Need It?
Why Do We Need Project Portfolio Management?
What Is Project Portfolio Management?
The Fundamentals of a Project Portfolio Management Process
Selecting Projects for the Pipeline
Maintaining the Pipeline
Executing Project Portfolio Management
Tools for Project Portfolio Management
Implementing Project Portfolio Management
The Finer Points of Project Portfolio Management
Defining PPM: A Bridge or a Hub?
A Prequalification Process for Selecting Projects for the Portfolio
The Impact of Uncertainty on Projects and the Portfolios
Is There a Gorilla in Your Portfolio? Turning Opportunity into Value
Work Breakdown Structures for Risk and Strategies
An Introduction to Earned Value Analysis
Contributed Chapters and Case Studies
PPM Techniques and Issues: Portfolio Planning
Linking Strategy and Project Portfolio Management
How to Determine the Value of a Project
Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Improve Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
The Efficient Frontier Technique for Analyzing Project Portfolio Management
PPM Techniques and Issues: Organizing and Implementing
Making the Case for Project Portfolio Management
The Role of Executives in Effective Project Portfolio Management
Project Offices Are Key Components of IT Governance
PPM Applications: Information Technology
A Summary of First Practices and Lessons Learned in Information Technology Portfolio Management
The Backbone System of IT Management and Governance: IT Management and Governance 101
PPM Applications: New Product Development
A Stage-Gate Idea-to-Launch Framework for Driving New Products to Market
Portfolio Management for Product Innovation
Applications: PPM for Theory of Constraint Advocates
Applying the Theory of Constraints to Project Portfolio Management
Case Studies
Managing Your Technology Pipeline Portfolio Management Process and Its Evolution over Time
Using PPM to Ease the Hewlett-Packard-Compaq Merger
Developing a PPM Capability at America Online
EW Scripps: A Media Giant's Portfolio Management Solution
What Others Are Saying About PPM
Beyond the Triple Constraints: Developing a Business Venture Approach to Project Management
From Overload to Productivity via Systematic Decision Making
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective IT Portfolio Management Implementations
Project Portfolio Management Basics
Integrating Project Portfolio Management with Project Management Practices to Deliver Competitive Advantage
Notes
Index