Lead change through strategic alignment of project and processperformance Practical and filled with expert advice, Strategic ProjectPortfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organizationpresents a clear framework for your organization to completeimpactful strategic projects. Providing executive-level guidance tobuild a powerful and efficient process from initial adoption toportfolio alignment, this essential resource contains case studiesfrom small to global multinational organizations, arming you withthe insights to ensure your strategic projects are given theresources they need to deliver business impact. This important guide Shows executives how to align their projects and processes withtheir business strategy for compelling competitive advantage Provides cases from best in class organizations, showing howthey were able to achieve results by using processes outlined inthe book Reveals how technology is the key to developing newcollaborative platforms and innovative work management environmentsthat have not been possible until now Defines a framework for assessing project portfolio managementcompetence within your organization and driving momentum forcompelling improvements Explores how to go beyond project portfolio management to aholistic work management system Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a ProductiveOrganization offers the practical recommendations, guidance,and real world insights you need to immediately begin drivingbetter project management strategy.
This unique text provides a holistic systems approach to project portfolio management which includes people, processes, tools, and techniques that work synergistically to produce portfolio decisions with the best chance of success.
This book is for those executives and other project professional who strive to have a formalized system of authorizing the right projects and abandoning the wrong projects, who desire to spend resources in the most efficient manner, and who ...
This new book by leading practitioners introduces a framework and range of tools to enable the project portfolio to be strategically managed including establishing guidelines, prioritising, aligning projects with strategy, balancing the ...
In essence, this book details how to approach answering the important strategic questions in project management like—“Why is the project being implemented? How does the project relate to the major strategic goals of the organization?
They are an excellent way to explain the differences in a project, a program, and a portfolio. The portfolio represents the organization's truest intent so, in relating it to the Pyramids, assume someone in ancient Egypt determined that ...
Project management roles and responsibilities. Center for Business Practices. Crawford, J. K., & Cabanis-Brewin, J. (2006). Optimizing human capital with a strategic project office: Select, train, measure and reward people for ...
Chapter 7 has been greatly augmented by materials we developed for our book, Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office (Auerbach, 2005), covering the human resources (HR) aspects of managing project personnel.
Human resource departments play a key role in these activities. Resource management is not given the cover it deserves in the literature, but Lock (2013) deals with resource planning and allocation at the project and multiproject levels ...
Key Features: --Presents actionable tools, techniques and solutions to the top 10 PPM risks and execution difficulties that most organizations and program management offices (PMOs) face --Includes real case examples that organizations and ...
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 ...