Project Program and Portfolio Management in easy steps

by John Carroll

Project Program and Portfolio Management (P3M) represents project management taken to the enterprise level. Increasingly it is being recognized as critical to the success of projects in large organizations, such as governments and multinational corporations. Conversely, it is also being recognized that failure to implement it in an organization will often result in a string of poor performing and failed projects. While P3M should therefore be considered critical for large organizations, it can also play a significant part in improving the success and financial payback of projects in any size of business.

Whether you will be commissioning, running, involved in the delivery of, or are just interested in the possibilities that program and portfolio management can bring, Project Program and Portfolio Management in easy steps will give you a good understanding of the subject. It will show you how to implement program and/or portfolio management in easy steps and how to get the greatest benefit from using one or both in your organization.

Genres: Management

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2014

Reviews

[Barry Avis · Rating 2 out of 5]

The title of this book ‘Project Program and Portfolio Management in easy steps’ suggests that at the end of the book you will be equipped to implement a project program and portfolio system. The book does not provide that skill, it is a very high-level description of some of the aspects of those three systems but it in no way provides all the information needed. Additionally, there is a lot of repeating in the book with simply changing the words project, program and portfolio to the point where the 192 pages should really have been around 90 pages. As a Quality Assurance professional who works in a project based organisation looking to see how program management differs from project management I was disappointed not to find out that information.
The layout of the book is good with some clear diagrams but I just felt I was reading the same chapter over and over for each stage. Not a book I would recommend.

[Dennis Chow · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boring. Skipped through the last pages