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Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)
 
 
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Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) [Kindle Edition]

Harvey A. Levine (Author), Max Wideman (Foreword)
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“…a valuable reference for theory and analysis…” (Supply Management, December 2005)

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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 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
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  • File Size: 3295 KB
  • Print Length: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (February 7, 2008)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00472OBXY
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #241,450 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After having evaluated many recent books on the subject of Project Portfolio Management, I found the practical guidance and descriptive clarity as provided by Harvey A. Levine exceptional. Working for Serena Software, I was looking for a single book that could educate and guide a variety of people into PPM, ranging from new Mariner account managers, engineers as well as Mariner customers. Not only does this book provide an easy way to understand the typical Project Portfolio Management process, it is being done using such simple terms, avoiding buzzwords and unnecessary jargon, making it very easy and fast to read, even for a non native English speaking audience. The latter is important if you are operating worldwide. The book does contain some level of repetition, especially in Part Two, but as these are contributing sections and case studies, written by different authors who provide a different angle or viewpoint to the same concepts, I found those especially useful for practitioners (our engineers and customers). The downside of having multiple authors is however that Levine's simple and clear writing style is not always maintained. The advantage of this approach is that within the same book, readers will benefit from learning some related topics such as ways to measure (e.g. earned value, AHP, NPV), Enterprise Project Management, IT Governance, and much more.

As a result, the company has bought over 50 copies to date and I have been recommending this book to our new employees, partners, and customers worldwide who want to build up their knowledge and implementation skills in Project Portfolio Management.

Eddy Pauwels

Serena Software

Antwerp, Belgium
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Overall, very well done March 24, 2008
By Joe PM
Format:Hardcover
I have been waiting for a good, practical portfolio management book and this one hits the mark for me. It contains a good mix of content including some "theory" as well as a good bit of practical advice. The writing style is clear, to the point, and provides you with enough to go off and make something happen in your organization.

As an aside, I think the graphic on the cover is right on point. We are too often burning the candle at both ends in the project/program/portfolio management space!
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great Book December 17, 2007
Format:Hardcover
This is a great book for someone trying to implement portfolio management in a company. Excellent insight.
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A ranking of value and benefits  An appraisal of risk (in achieving these benefits)  An inventory of resource availability and allocation  An idea of an optimum or acceptable size of the project pipeline &quote;
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PPM is a set of processes, supported by people and tools, to guide the enterprise in selecting the right projects and the right number of projects, and in maintaining a portfolio of projects that will maximize the enterprises strategic goals, efficient use of resources, stakeholder satisfaction, and the bottom line. &quote;
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Three typical classifications of projects are utility or maintenance, growth or enhancement, and transformation. &quote;
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