Middle Managers in Program and Portfolio Management

Executive Summary

What are middle managers’ roles and responsibilities in program and project portfolio management? What are the best practices of successful companies today? These questions are of increasing interest for organizations operating with limited resources and ambitious performance objectives. More and more organizations use projects as the building blocks for their business in order to deliver unique products or services to their clients’ specific requirements. At the same time, organizations are required to optimize the use of their resources to achieve their own business objectives. These project-based organizations have to balance two competing objectives: the delivery of high quality project and program objectives to internal ...