Project Portfolio Management - A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects,
Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits
Book description
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
Harvey A. Levine has been a project management specialist and
consultant since 1962. In addition to contributing to PM journals and
web sites, Levine provides applications, system design, and consulting
services in project planning and control. He served as president and
chairman of the board of directors of the Project Management Institute
and is a PMI fellow. He is the author of Practical Project Management
from John Wiley & Sons.
