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Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits
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Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits

by Harvey A. Levine, Max Wideman
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 49m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits
SECTION FIVE
PPM Techniques and Issues
Organizing and Implementing
 
 
 
 
All the best methods in the world will not help if these methods are not properly implemented and supported in an organization that has been groomed to work with them. How we organize to implement and practice PPM is paramount to its success. Fostering a culture that is supportive of PPM and developing an enlightened and supportive executive are essential stepping-stones to making PPM work. The three chapters in this section provide exceptional guidance to this end.
In Chapter 5.1, Cliff Cohen and Randy Englund make a case for PPM. They present thirty-four typical excuses and complaints and respond with solutions, benefits, and implementation advice. If you have a selling ...
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ISBN: 9781118002568