Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed 34465th Edition

Great book!Fantastic quality!Quick delivery to the middle east.

I found this book to be very informative and helpful, and actually used many things to set up a PMO at my organization.I will recommend this to anyone working in the project, program or PMO management.

Despite the fact that this reads (and sounds) like a whitepaper, it's a useful book which makes two points incredibly well:Point #1) Too many organizations try to save money on projects (cost efficiency) when the benefits of completing the project earlier far outweigh the potential cost savings.You might, for example, be able to complete project X with perfect resource management (all staff are perfectly busy!) in 100 days for $1 million. Alternatively, you could hire some extra people and have them sitting around occasionally at a total cost of $1.3 million, but the project would be completed in only 60 days.What's that 40 day difference worth? Well, if the project is strategic in nature, it could be worth everything. It could mean being first to market with a new product or possessing a required capability for an upcoming bid which you don't even know about yet. It could mean impressing the heck out of some skeptical new client or being prepared for a surprise audit. Sometimes the benefits outweigh the cost savings.Point #2) Project management exists only to better deliver benefits and capabilities. It doesn't exist for its own sake, it's not some kind of innately useful, primordial thing. If it isn't helping deliver benefits and capabilities, then you can send the whole rattling project management caravan off the side of a tall cliff.This is where so many organizations get themselves into trouble. They hire a bunch of project managers and demand they follow this or that methodology. But why? Is it because -- well -- this is what everybody else is doing? Or is it because this methodology will deliver 15% more projects with the same resources? Or this methodology will reduce project cycles by 20 days? Is anybody even measuring these things before/after implementing all these processes?If you're going to go down the project management road (and you should!), you need to understand why you're doing it, and how you're going to measure your success (hint: throughput!). Kendall & Rollins do a nice job of making that clear.434 pp. Recommended.

In short, this book is amazing and effective in communicating the need of a central, standardized project management office (PMO). It also stresses the requirements for success, both in its implementation and continued execution. I suggest the book for any project manager that is pulling their hair out because upper management isn't seeing the value of proper project management implementation.

I help corporations build PMOs. This book does a great job of covering some of latest and most effective thinking, tools and techniques in the business.The author does a great job covering many of the project management approaches available today. He especially does a great job explaining the use of Lean, Critical Chain and Scrum techniques.A must for every professionals bookshelf.

The book was really dirty and had some torn papers, but it did the job.

For class good book

Much of the coverage is incomplete and misleading. Souder, in his 1984 work entitled Project Selection and Economic Analysis provides a much more useful, cogent and useable account of selecting and rating projects; if ROI is to be used as the key selection tool! The book touts the benefits of Critical Chain with zeal; but with limited if any defensible evidence. For those new to professional project management, the book provides much cheerleading but little value related to delivery of projects within the context of a viable well managed, competitive business environment. The book's reference list is anemic. Assessment of the broad scope and depth of information related to PMOs and Portfolio Management is questionable. While somewhat dated, PACE by McGrath and Portfolio Management by Kleinschmidt et.al. provide far more definitive, proven, actionable, and valuable insight and direction.

Very good condition.

Devo ancora leggerlo e quindi non mi pronuncio sui contenuti, però il libro è arrivato con una pagina strappata... Sic!