THE BRIEFCASE BOOKS SERIES  Now translated into nine languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level.  All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations.  Today's workplace is often complex and unpredictable, yet most project management books address only the topic of managing individual projects and solving specific problems. Managing Multiple Projects presents a realistic method for developing the individual and group skills needed to cope with competing demands. It shows readers how to develop a reliable system for taking on multiple projects, work with others to allocate conflicting workloads, cope with the stress that comes from managing multiple projects, and more.

Managing Multiple Projects - Planning, Scheduling, & Allocating Resources for Competitive Advantage (02) by Dye, Lowell [Hardcover (2002)]

Business & Money

James S. Pennypacker

Economics

Marcel Dekker

Today more than ever, every dollar invested must be justified, and any initiative must deliver positive and tangible results. The good news is that tangible metrics on project management value can be established by asking the right questions and developing an appropriate measurement system. Justifying the Value of Project Management will help you do just that. You will learn how to develop a system to measure the value of project management within your own organization, you will learn how to sell project management to senior executives, and you will learn what value others have attained by implementing project management improvement initiatives in their organizations. Whether you want to implement a project office, a project management methodology, project management software, train staff in project management tools and techniques, or just add improvements in these areas, this book will help you understand how to go about building your business case and selling it to senior executives to attain the funding needed.

Justifying the Value of Project Management

PM Solutions

Project Portfolio Management captures the essence of 40 years of business modeling and management science applications and presents project portfolio management in a format that is both informative and practical. You'll discover insights into how successful businesses manage their project portfolios - how they choose the projects they undertake, how they get the right balance and mix of projects, and how they allocate their resources across various projects. This collection of articles from leaders in the field will show you the portfolio management tools, techniques, and methods that you can put into practice in order to achieve more effective portfolio management in your organization.

Project Portfolio Management: Selecting and Prioritizing Projects for Competitive Advantage

Lowell D. Dye

The ultimate goal of the Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model is to help you improve the capability of your organization s project portfolio management processes. To help you achieve this goal, PM Solutions has built its Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model from the proven framework of its Project Management Maturity Model. The Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model provides best practices to help you: determine the maturity of your organization's project portfolio management processes; map out a logical path to improve your organization's processes; set priorities for short-term process improvement actions; assess the role of a project office in your project portfolio management processes; track progress against your project portfolio management improvement plan; build a culture of project portfolio management excellence across the organization.

Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model

Management & Leadership

Ctr for Business Practices

Seven Steps to Strategy Execution describes a carefully planned approach to execution that is needed to attain organizational straegic goals and objectives and offers organizations a framework against which to map their progress in creating what the authors call Strategy Performance Management. SPM is an approach to business success that integrates aspects of the organization that too often operate asynchronously: Strategy Management, Project Portfolio Management, Program/Project Management, Information Technology, Structure, Culture, and People. This approach gives organizations a logical framework to help them communicate strategy to the people and processes that make it a reality. And it further builds organizational capability by continually measuring performance against the organization's selected strategy performance metrics.

Seven Steps to Strategy Execution

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

J. Kent Crawford