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Portfolio and Programme Management Demystified: Managing Multiple Projects Successfully
You re now responsible for a programme, or you ve got a portfolio to manage? Where do you start? Right here!
Projects are not simply the bread and butter of an organisation. Form them into programmes or portfolios and they can be prioritised and integrated to deliver change to your organization in line with your strategic vision. You will be able to control costs and risks and bring together a complex series of themes effectively.
This overhauled second edition now combines portfolio management as a parallel theme with programme management, and it is brought in line with the current thinking of the Association for Project Management and the Project Management Institute. It is written for managers in both the public and private sectors. This new edition includes half a dozen short case studies (from Belgium s Fortis Bank, a software company, local government, and central government), along with more on cross-functional management.
Together with Project Management Demystified, also from Routledge (third edition, 2007), it provides the tools to manage your projects, your programmes and your portfolio to a very high level.
Projects are not simply the bread and butter of an organisation. Form them into programmes or portfolios and they can be prioritised and integrated to deliver change to your organization in line with your strategic vision. You will be able to control costs and risks and bring together a complex series of themes effectively.
This overhauled second edition now combines portfolio management as a parallel theme with programme management, and it is brought in line with the current thinking of the Association for Project Management and the Project Management Institute. It is written for managers in both the public and private sectors. This new edition includes half a dozen short case studies (from Belgium s Fortis Bank, a software company, local government, and central government), along with more on cross-functional management.
Together with Project Management Demystified, also from Routledge (third edition, 2007), it provides the tools to manage your projects, your programmes and your portfolio to a very high level.
322 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 8, 1996
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January 12, 2020
Bit dull. Not much that is groundbreaking or really that interesting but gives a decent overview for people that have little understanding of programme management. Not hugely applicable either.
April 30, 2014
My first impressions of this book weren't that great; the cover looks very serious and it isn’t a cheap book so the extremely jokey style in which it was written was quite jarring against my expectations. That said, there is lots of good advice in here which clearly comes from years of experience of running traditional IT projects, programmes and portfolios. Unfortunately there isn't much in here relating to portfolio management when some of your projects are following an agile process. Overall not bad, but I am hoping that there is something better out there.
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