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

James S. Pennypacker

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

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

Agile Project Management connects the dots between agile practices, project management practices, and those drivers in the business world that make it likely that all projects of all types are going to need the benefits that agile project managers can bring. The book is not intended as a full primer on the agile philosophy or on adaptive leadership. Much has been written about agile practices within information technology organizations, but the focus of these efforts has been primarily on agile software development projects. As this exciting method has become familiar to software developers and others in IT, many project management experts have wondered: shouldn't agile methods be applied to the management of other kinds of projects? Agile Project Management answers that question.

Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century

Business & Money

Karen R.J. White

Management & Leadership

The foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order to successfully manage projects is presented in this introductory text, revised and updated to comply with the PMBOK Guide 4th Edition. Project Management Essentials covers the basic concepts of the five fundamental project management processes, defining requirements, schedules, risk management, and change control. Readers gain an understanding of how the project management processes are used during each phase of a project to build a better, more effective project plan.

Project Management Essentials, Revised and Updated

William P. Athayde

Deborah Bigelow Crawford

Ruth Elswick

Paul Lombard