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Enterprise Unified Process, The: Extending the Rational Unified Process
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Enterprise Unified Process, The: Extending the Rational Unified Process

by Scott W. Ambler, Michael J. Vizdos, John Nalbone
February 2005
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
8h 34m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 8. The Portfolio Management Discipline

Reader ROI

  • Portfolio management exists throughout a system’s entire lifecycle—from its inception and initial vision through the end of the Retirement phase.

  • Portfolio management enables you to identify, and then effectively manage, the highest-value projects.

  • Major contracts with service vendors are managed at the portfolio level.

  • Small risks associated with the project level can compound to become huge risks at the program level—and spell disaster for your organization.

The goal of the Portfolio Management discipline is to help improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of information technology (IT) within an organization by selecting and then managing viable software development projects. You ...

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