Author : Dennis Bolles
Publisher : Amacom Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814474044
Executives in the most forward-thinking businesses are taking project management beyond specific projects in manufacturing, product development, and IT, and adopting its powerful methods company-wide. This book describes in detail the four key functions, also known as the Four Pillars of the EPMO House of Excellence, that are crucial to building an effective Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO).
Author : Dennis L Bolles Pmp
Publisher : Pbmconcepts
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Project management
ISBN : 9780985848415
Today's business world is rife with competition, corporate downsizing, business restructuring, and pressures to implement the principles of project management. The benefits of Enterprise PMOs and Enterprise-Wide Project Management are legion, and proven to enhance a company's bottom line. However, many leaders find themselves overwhelmed by the challenge of coordinating their project related efforts with their enterprise's strategic initiatives and business objectives. Project Business Management (PBM) experts Dennis Bolles and Darrel Hubbard provide an easy-to-follow, practical plan for establishing an executive-level Enterprise Project Management Organization, which lies at the core of successfully implementing Enterprise-Wide Project Management. You will learn how to develop, deploy, and implement those practices and processes of the project management discipline that are appropriate for your company. Practical and authoritative, The Power of Enterprise PMOs and Enterprise-Wide Project Management gives executive management the information needed to implement their strategic initiatives and related business objectives through the business focused completion of projects. Leaders will understand that the key to obtaining their desired benefits and value from projects is the business-focused project management of the enterprise's project, programs, and portfolios provided by an Enterprise PMO.
Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317106806
Many organizations profit hugely by utilizing a Project Management Office (PMO); it means they achieve benefits from standardizing and following project management policies, processes, and methods. However, building an effective PMO is a complex process; it requires clear vision and strong leadership so that, over time, it will become the source for guidance, documentation, and metrics related to the practices involved in managing and implementing projects. Leading Successful PMOs will guide all project based organizations, and project managers who contribute to and benefit from a PMO, towards maximizing their project success. In it, Peter Taylor outlines the basics of setting up a PMO and clearly explains how to ensure it will do exactly what you need it to do - the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team.
Author : Paul C. Dinsmore
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814417477
In our increasingly competitive global economy, companies in all industries are struggling to survive and seeking new ways to do more--and this places unprecedented pressure on project managers to take on and govern multiple efforts simultaneously. Enterprise Project Governance reveals proven techniques for dealing with the multiplicity of projects and ensuring that programs and initiatives create the value needed to help your organization prosper. Through enlightening examples and case studies, readers will learn how to examine new project proposals and align them with the priorities, resources, and strategies of the organization. But this isn’t a one-person job. As its title suggests, Enterprise Project Governance takes a more systemic approach to the important work of managing projects, teaching practical methods for incorporating enterprise project governance into an organization's culture, synchronizing it with corporate governance, and maximizing efficiency and results across departments. Whether you’re a boardroom exec, an experience project manager struggling to keep up, or someone working in the trenches and hoping to advance, this go-to guide will help you manage your workload--and even increase it--with ease.
Author : J. Kent Crawford
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0849379466
Assisting organizations in improving their project management processes, the Project Management Maturity Model defines the industry standard for measuring project management maturity.Project Management Maturity Model, Second Edition provides a roadmap showing organizations how to move to higher levels of organizational behavior, improving
Author : Dennis Bolles
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2002-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814426441
It’s been shown again and again that business components from R & D to systems, engineering to manufacturing can benefit from a project-centered management approach. Now, organizations that have had success at the departmental or divisional level are taking the project management approach to new levels, adopting PM standards into across-the-board management philosophies and business strategies. This new model is known as the Project Management Center of Excellence. PMCoEs need every group within the organization to work under the PM model, but more important, they need the proper tools to implement PM standards in new areas. A crucial tool in developing project management objectives across the company, this book covers: * Positioning project management as a business strategy * Creating and managing an organizational PM portfolio * Education, training, and internal PM certification programs * Classifying projects, benchmarking, and mapping a methodology
Author : Monique Aubry, PhD, MPM
Publisher : Project Management Institute
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1628251360
Since project management offices began to appear in organizations over the last decade, project management practitioners and their organizations have been asking how to structure project management offices (PMOs) and what functions to assign them. In The Project Management Office (PMO): A Quest For Understanding, authors Brian Hobbs and Monique Aubry address these questions, providing a look at how PMOs exist today, and some clues about how and why they're changing. Of particular interest to practitioners, the authors address the roles that PMOs play in organizations, which provides valuable insights for better creating, structuring and governing PMOs. When designing a PMO, an organization has a variety of choices regarding the PMO's structure and role assignment. By providing a way to define PMOs by type, this research explores how to set up and define a PMO, depending upon the specific type of PMO The authors discuss the many bases for the types of PMOs, including structural characteristics and functions, and how these types affect the PMO's role in the organization.
Author : Craig J. Letavec
Publisher : J. Ross Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1604270446
This handbook developed by the Project Management Institutes Program Management Office Specific Interest Group (PMOSIG) provides practical guidance to the project Management and PMO community on a variety of topics in the areas of: PMO Strategic and Tactical Management, PMO Governance, PMO Services, PMO Set-up and Execution, and PMO Performance and Maturity. It features insightful contributions from more than 20 subject matter experts, successful practitioners, distinguished authors and thought leaders with a variety of backgrounds and experiences from around the World. The authors include best practices and case studies for successfully aligning PMOs to business objectives, and delivering benefits/ROI, as well as numerous proven tools, templates, policies, procedures, standards, methodologies and processes for successfully developing, and managing PMOs and for expanding their scope of services.
Author : J. Kent Crawford
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2001-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781420028942
Describing the initiation, design, execution, and control of a strategic project office, this book provides step-by-step instructions for establishing a PMO. The author emphasizes cost management, cultural change, risk assessment, resource allocation, and skills tracking to increase project value, organizational efficiency, and productivity. He explores various aspects relating to planning and implementing the strategic project office, and concludes by considering how to change the organizational culture to match the new organization. Concise and easy, the book covers the many pitfalls and minefields and provide strategies to avoid them.
Author : Gerald I. Kendall
Publisher : J. Ross Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781932159028
Advanced Project Portfolio Management is a comprehensive book which presents a roadmap for the achievement of high value enterprise strategies and superior project management results. It provides methods for best project selection, faster completion, optimal project portfolio management, and how to explicitly measure the PMO for rapidly increasing project ROI.
