Description

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 distils 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.
About the Author:
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. Robert Max Wideman (born 19 January 1927 in Penarth, UK), widely referred to as simply Max Wideman, is known for his contributions to the profession of project management. He is the creator of the first edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the Project Management Institute’s foundational book on the process of project management. Wideman is also well known for his free comprehensive project management knowledge web site that contains over 12, 500 pages, 550 Issacons (issues and considerations), and 280, 000 links (as of September 2010).
Books Author: Harvey A. Levine and Max Wideman
Number Of Pages: 560
Language: English
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Books Category: Business & Money
Book Format: Paperback
Books_ISBN: 787977543
Publication Date: August 12, 2005