Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the Pmo: Multiplying Roi at Warp Speed

by Steven Rollins, Gerald I. Kendall, Steve C. Rollins, et al.

Book Overview

Official reference material for the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) Credential Examination This comprehensive book presents a road map for the achievement of high value enterprise strategies... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932159029
• ISBN13: 9781932159028
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A good, solid book

I really liked this book for it's "advanced" nature. I think that if you're just starting out on the path towards a PMO it might be a bit much but for anyone serious about managing their project portfolio in a way that adds value, it hits the mark.

how to make your projects work for your business

This book is great. It provides a comprehensive, step by step approach to project management.It gave us some outstanding tips and insights that enabled our projects to deliver more with less and have greater impact on our business. Reading this book provided us with a robust governance structure, tools, processes and frameworks which followed through to the bottom line. The benefit of implementing the concepts of this book blew us away. It is a must read for project managers and project management executives.

Outstanding; comprehensive; dead on target!

Outstanding, comprehensive and refreshing capture of ideas and an actionable approach to the imperative of reversing the documented failure of four of five projects to achieve cost, schedule or content objectives. Just one of the techniques emphasized-Critical Chain-has demonstrated powerful leverage and consistent project management success in literally 100s of well-documented implementations across myriad private industry, non-profit & government settings here in the US and around the world. These successes are reinforced by my personal dissertation research and results of successful Critical Chain applications in major Defense Department weapon system acquisition development and production programs run by giants like Lockheed Martin and Boeing, as well as weapons system sustainment programs run at US Navy/Marine maintenance depots. I totally agree with Dr. Harold Kerzner, highly respected educator and widely read author of books on project management, who recommends that this book "become the standard for PMO development for years to come."

For those who don't get it and need to

If you are struggling with selling the value of portfolio project management, establishing a project management office or implementing project management at the tactical level in your organization get this book in the hands of your decision-makers. Too often strategic plans remain plans. This book provides the direction to execute those plans into desired outcomes. Change is now the norm and this book provides the steps to develop project management competencies to ensure the right change is executed in the right way. If you do nothing else give this book to your leadership team to educate and make them aware of the value of project management.

How to sell then set up a PMO that works

This book really helped me to sell the concept of a PMO, made easier by the chapter with the executive proposal set out as to what senior execs can expect and how the PMO and its projects are linked to the strategy of the organization. The absolute clarity on what the PMO should do, the road map and the roles & responsibilities of participants was 'eye' opening to say the least, saved me so much time.Who ever thought of the PMO getting involved in Marketing, to provide the balance between supply side and market side projects ? The indentification / development of the Unique Selling Proposition and the Compelling Marketing Offer as projects that the PMO would permanently carry out, whow !!!Last but not least a list of questions at the end of each chapter to ensure I learnt the subject, great idea. Thanks guys.