Implementing Project Portfolio Management

As a companion guide to portfolio management, this book is primarily grounded with the Standard for Portfolio Management -4th Edition. This book is designed for three primary audience groups: Business Executives, Portfolio Leaders and Practitioners, and Portfolio Thinkers.

"The Standard for Portfolio Management - Fourth Edition is a major up- date to the third edition. There are three major changes: 1) The new book is now a principle-based standard in which the applicability has achieved greater universality. 2) The breadth of the new standard is broader, en- compassing a portfolio life cycle, aligning with complexity and system theories, portfolio stakeholder management and portfolio value management. 3) The depth has also been increased to include a section on capability and capacity, a major rework on governance management, and significant insights in value management and stakeholder management. As a principle-based standard, the 'how' of portfolio management is largely removed, and thus, even with a significant addition of concepts and practices, the new standard is nearly 20 percent shorter in length than the previous edition. This is a significant trade-off. To address the 'hows,' select members of the core team decided to work together to write this book, Implementing Project Portfolio Management: A Companion Guide to the Standard for Portfolio Management"--

Does your organization want to achieve success in prioritizing projects systematically, deliberately, and logically? Project Portfolio Management Tools and Techniques is written to demonstrate how to elevate your organization's project management thinking to the level beyond managing individual projects in a standalone fashion. 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 want to have an actionable strategic plan for improving organizational project management sophistication. Project Portfolio Management Tools and Techniques deals with the full spectrum of project portfolio management (PPM) functions, from selecting projects through formalized portfolio management processes to facilitating the successful execution of projects through creating a formalized, project-friendly environment. This book will aid you in the implement of a PPM system, assist in gaining the necessary commitment from executive management, and provide guidelines for the modification of operational practices. Get ahead of the game by seeing a comprehensive project portfolio model that can help you establish yours successfully

"The Standard for Portfolio Management - Fourth Edition is a major up- date to the third edition. There are three major changes: 1) The new book is now a principle-based standard in which the applicability has achieved greater universality. 2) The breadth of the new standard is broader, en- compassing a portfolio life cycle, aligning with complexity and system theories, portfolio stakeholder management and portfolio value management. 3) The depth has also been increased to include a section on capability and capacity, a major rework on governance management, and significant insights in value management and stakeholder management. As a principle-based standard, the 'how' of portfolio management is largely removed, and thus, even with a significant addition of concepts and practices, the new standard is nearly 20 percent shorter in length than the previous edition. This is a significant trade-off. To address the 'hows,' select members of the core team decided to work together to write this book, Implementing Project Portfolio Management: A Companion Guide to the Standard for Portfolio Management"--

Many companies and organisations are faced with a portfolio of projects that need to be managed effectively and successfully. 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 portfolio and sustaining a change culture through continuous improvement.

Advanced Project Portfolio Management is a comprehensive book which presents a roadmap for the achievement of high value enterprise strategies and superior project management results. It provides methods for best project selection, faster completion, optimal project portfolio management, and how to explicitly measure the PMO for rapidly increasing project ROI.

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