Project Portfolio Management (eBook)

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.

Foreword (Max Wideman).

Acknowledgments.

The Author.

Introduction.

Part One: A Practical Guide to Project PortfolioManagement.

Section One: What Is Project Portfolio Management, and Why DoWe Need It?

1.1 Why Do We Need Project Portfolio Management?

1.2 What Is Project Portfolio Management?

Section Two: The Fundamentals of a Project PortfolioManagement Process.

2.1 Selecting Projects for the Pipeline.

2.2 Maintaining the Pipeline.

2.3 Executing Project Portfolio Management.

2.4 Tools for Project Portfolio Management.

2.5 Implementing Project Portfolio Management.

Section Three: The Finer Points of Project PortfolioManagement.

3.1 Defining PPM: A Bridge or a Hub?

3.2 A Prequalification Process for Selecting Projects for thePortfolio.

3.3 The Impact of Uncertainty on Projects and thePortfolios.

3.4 Is There a Gorilla in Your Portfolio? Turning Opportunityinto Value.

3.5 Work Breakdown Structures for Risk and Strategies.

3.6 An Introduction to Earned Value Analysis.

Part Two: Contributed Chapters and Case Studies.

Section Four: PPM Techniques and Issues: PortfolioPlanning.

4.1 Linking Strategy and Project Portfolio Management (K. C.Yelin).

4.2 How to Determine the Value of a Project (Ray Trotta,Christopher Gardner).

4.3 Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Improve EnterpriseProject Portfolio Management (James Devlin).

4.4 The Efficient Frontier Technique for Analyzing ProjectPortfolio Management (Mike Gruia).

Section Five: PPM Techniques and Issues: Organizing andImplementing.

5.1 Making the Case for Project Portfolio Management (CliffordB. Cohen, Randall L. Englund).

5.2 The Role of Executives in Effective Project PortfolioManagement (K. C. Yelin).

5.3 Project Offices Are Key Components of IT Governance (MattLight).

Section Six: PPM Applications: InformationTechnology.

6.1 A Summary of First Practices and Lessons Learned inInformation Technology Portfolio Management (Federal CIO Council,Best Practices Committee).

6.2 The Backbone System of IT Management and Governance: ITManagement and Governance 101 (David Hurwitz).

Section Seven: PPM Applications: New ProductDevelopment.

7.1 A Stage-Gate® Idea-to-Launch Framework for Driving NewProducts to Market (Robert G. Cooper).

7.2 Portfolio Management for Product Innovation (Robert G.Cooper).

Section Eight: Applications: PPM for Theory of ConstraintAdvocates.

8.1 Applying the Theory of Constraints to Project PortfolioManagement (Larry Leach).

Section Nine: Case Studies.

9.1 Managing Your Technology Pipeline Portfolio ManagementProcess and Its Evolution over Time (Rebecca Seibert).

9.2 Using PPM to Ease the Hewlett-Packard-Compaq Merger(Don Kingsberry).

9.3 Developing a PPM Capability at America Online (RichDougherty).

9.4 EW Scripps: A Media Giant's Portfolio ManagementSolution (Vanessa McMillan).

Section Ten: What Others Are Saying About PPM.

10.1 Beyond the Triple Constraints: Developing a BusinessVenture Approach to Project Management (Robert J. Graham, DennisCohen).

10.2 From Overload to Productivity via Systematic DecisionMaking (James Schlick, Andrew Longman).

10.3 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective IT PortfolioManagement Implementations (Gil Makleff).

10.4 Project Portfolio Management Basics (PMI Knowledge andWisdom Center).

10.5 Integrating Project Portfolio Management with ProjectManagement Practices to Deliver Competitive Advantage (James S.Pennypacker, Patrick Sepate).

Notes.

Index.

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