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

SECTION NINE

Case Studies

We can write all we want about why and how to do project portfolio management. Perhaps the best teacher, however, is the experience of others who have gone the PPM route. The four chapters in this section present case studies with the intent of providing illustrations and insight into the implementation of the PPM processes.

We start with one of the early adopters, Crompton Corporation. I have great admiration for these brave souls who dare to take a new fork in the road well before it is marked and paved. With ten years invested in moving to PPM, Crompton Corporation has had enough time to evaluate the benefits from PPM, fine-tune the processes, and catalogue what to do and what not to do. Rebecca Seibert tells the ...