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Managing Projects as Investments
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Managing Projects as Investments

by Stephen A. Devaux
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
255 pages
7h 45m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Managing Projects as Investments
51Chapter three: Tracking projects by investment value
As projects get closer and closer to completion, we need to invest less
and less in order to pocket their value. This should suggest that projects
which are nearing completion should usually have top priority for needed
resources. However, in my experience, precisely the opposite is the case,
especially when the project is being performed by a contractor. All too
often, the emphasis switches to “migrating” the resources to new projects.
This is especially true in organizations where one of the metrics being
used to judge the performance of functional managers is utilization rate,
that is ...
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ISBN: 9781482212709