Project portfolio management : a practical guide to selecting projects, managing portfolios, and maximizing benefits created by Harvey A Levine; foreword by Max Wideman

Includes index

Part 1 A practical guide to project portfolio management; Section 1 - What is project portfolio management, and why do we need it?, 2 - The fundamentals of a project portfolio management process, 3 - The finer points of project portfolio management,Part 2 Contributed chapters and case studies; Section 4 - PPM techniques and issues : portfolio planning, 5 - PPM techniques and issues : organizing and implementing, 6 - PPM applications : information technology, 7 -PPM applications : new product development, 8 - Applications : PPM for theory of constraint advocates, 9 - Case studies. 10 - What others are saying about PPM.

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond the typical project management approach to offer a set of proven business practices that can help executives, program managers, and project managers bring projects into alignment with the strategies, resources, and executive oversight of the overall enterprise. Step by step, this book shows how to take a project from the inception of a vision to the realization of benefits to the organization. Project Portfolio Management draws on project management expert Harvey A. Levine’s years of research and distills the knowledge and best practices from dozens of leaders in the field to show how to select and implement the projects that will garner the best results.