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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Written by Harvey Levine, an expert in the field, this book is an important guide to project portfolio management. It offers a hands-on guide to help program managers and managers of project offices sort through their existing projects and create a healthy portfolio of projects that will lead to increased ROI for the organization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword xi Max Wideman Acknowledgments xvii The Author xxi Introduction 1 Part One: A Practical Guide to Project Portfolio Management 11 Section One: What Is Project Portfolio Management, and Why Do We Need It? 13 1.1 Why Do We Need Project Portfolio Management? 15 1.2 What Is Project Portfolio Management? 22 Section Two: The Fundamentals of a Project Portfolio Management Process 29 2.1 Selecting Projects for the Pipeline 33 2.2 Maintaining the Pipeline 42 2.3 Executing Project Portfolio Management 52 2.4 Tools for Project Portfolio Management 59 2.5 Implementing Project Portfolio Management 78 Section Three: The Finer Points of Project Portfolio Management 85 3.1 Defining PPM: A Bridge or a Hub? 89 3.2 A Prequalification Process for Selecting Projects for the Portfolio 93 3.3 The Impact of Uncertainty on Projects and the Portfolios 99 3.4 Is There a Gorilla in Your Portfolio? Turning Opportunity into Value 109 3.5 Work Breakdown Structures for Risk and Strategies 115 3.6 An Introduction to Earned Value Analysis 123 Part Two: Contributed Chapters and Case Studies 133 Section Four: PPM Techniques and Issues: Portfolio Planning 135 4.1 Linking Strategy and Project Portfolio Management 137 K. C. Yelin 4.2 How to Determine the Value of a Project 146 Ray Trotta, Christopher Gardner 4.3 Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Improve Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 155 James Devlin 4.4 The Efficient Frontier Technique for Analyzing Project Portfolio Management 176 Mike Gruia Section Five: PPM Techniques and Issues: Organizing and Implementing 183 5.1 Making the Case for Project Portfolio Management 185 Clifford B. Cohen, Randall L. Englund 5.2 The...
List of contents
Introduction
Part I. A Practical Guide to PPM
Chapter 1. PPM: What is it and Why do we need it?
Chapter 2. The Fundamentals of a PPM Process
Chapter 3. The Finer Points of PPM
Part II. Contributed Chapters and Case Studies
Chapter 4. PPM Techniques and Issues--Portfolio Planning
Chapter 5. PPM techniques and Issues--Organizing and Implementing
Chapter 6. PPM Applications: Information Technology
Chapter 7. PPM Applications: New Product Development
Chapter 8. Applications: PPM for Theory of Constraint Advocates
Chapter 9. Case Studies (H-P, AOL, EW Scripps)
Chapter 10. What Others are Saying About PPM
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"...a valuable reference for theory and analysis..." ( Supply Management , December 2005)
