Author : Dennis Bolles
Publisher : Amacom Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 17,70 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 : Paul C. Dinsmore
Publisher : Amacom Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814404201
Winning in Business With Enterprise Project Management is a breakthrough book that shows you how to harness the power of project management for your company ... turn it into an organizational philosophy (where companies are perceived as dynamic enterprises consisting of "portfolios of projects") ... and use it to plan and take care of daily business. With project management principles operating on an enterprise-wide level, your company will generate more organizational synergy, add speed to ongoing processes, boost productivity, and maximize growth - ultimately delivering faster, cheaper, and better products and services. And in the no-holds-barred business arena of today, there's no better way to ensure survival and prosperity.
Author : Dennis L Bolles Pmp
Publisher : Pbmconcepts
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 35,12 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 : Dennis Bolles
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2002-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814426449
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 : MR Darrel G Hubbard Pe
Publisher : Pbmconcepts
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Project management
ISBN : 9780985848408
This book, through the included full-text case studies, provides the reader actual information on how project, program, and portfolio management offices (PMOs) are being structured and operated by current project management organizations. This book explores the actual business actions taken by well-known enterprises that shared, in a business case study format the "what" and the "how" they used to developed and manage their project management organization. Through their included case studies, they provide the reader the actual "how-it-is-being-done" by current project management organizations. Knowing what specific actions have been taken by others and what PMO organizational models they applied, provides the user with information on how to proceed after executive management gives the go-ahead to establish a PMO. This knowledge can be used immediately by enterprises, of any size or type, to implement a Project Business Management Organization and to establish Project Business Management enterprise-wide.
Author : Paul C. Dinsmore
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814433405
A must-read for any project management professional or student. Projects are the life blood of any organization. Revised to reflect the latest changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R)) and the Project Management Professional Exam(R), the fourth edition of The AMA Handbook of Project Management provides readers with a clear overview of a complex discipline. Covering everything from individual projects to programs and strategic alignment, it addresses: Project initiation and planning Communication and interpersonal skills Scheduling, budgeting and meeting business objectives Managing political and resource issues Implementing a PMO Measuring value and competencies. The book compiles essays and advice from the field's top professionals and features new chapters on stakeholder management, agile project management, program management, project governance, knowledge management, and more. Updated with fresh examples, case studies and solutions to specific project management dilemmas, it remains an essential reference to the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master.
Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,48 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 : Terry Schmidt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 047044293X
When Fortune Magazine estimated that 70% of all strategies fail, it also noted that most of these strategies were basically sound, but could not be executed. The central premise of Strategic Project Management Made Simple is that most projects and strategies never get off the ground because of adhoc, haphazard, and obsolete methods used to turn their ideas into coherent and actionable plans. Strategic Project Management Made Simple is the first book to couple a step-by-step process with an interactive thinking tool that takes a strategic approach to designing projects and action initiatives. Strategic Project Management Made Simple builds a solid platform upon four critical questions that are vital for teams to intelligently answer in order to create their own strong, strategic foundation. These questions are: 1. What are we trying to accomplish and why? 2. How will we measure success? 3. What other conditions must exist? 4. How do we get there? This fresh approach begins with clearly understanding the what and why of a project - comprehending the bigger picture goals that are often given only lip service or cursory reviews. The second and third questions clarify success measures and identify the risky assumptions that can later cause pain if not spotted early. The how questions - what are the activities, budgets, and schedules - comes last in our four-question system. By contrast, most project approaches prematurely concentrate on the how without first adequately addressing the three other questions. These four questions guide readers into fleshing out a simple, yet sophisticated, mental workbench called "the Logical Framework" - a Systems Thinking paradigm that lays out one's own project strategy in an easily accessible, interactive 4x4 matrix. The inclusion of memorable features and concepts (four critical questions, LogFrame matrix, If-then thinking, and Implementation Equation) make this book unique.
Author : Stephen Haines
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2004-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787976644
Leave piecemeal strategic change approaches behind and learn how to plan, facilitate, and integrate your change efforts for lasting success. Enterprise-Wide Change takes you through the ?Rollercoaster of Change,? showing you how to deal with resistance, regard skeptics as your best friends, and build a buy-in and stay-in strategy among your employees. The authors use the science of ?Systems Thinking? -- a comprehensive, yet simple and integrated way to analyze and build synergy from key organizational elements. You?ll find proven and practical questions, summaries, case studies, examples, and worksheets as well as systems tools, tips, and techniques to foster organization change and development.
Author : David L. Olson
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1631571230
Information Systems Project Management addresses project management in the context of information systems. It deals with general project management principles, with focus on the special characteristics of information systems. It is based on an earlier text, but shortened to focus on essential project management elements.This updated version presents various statistics indicating endemic problems in completing information system projects on time, within budget, at designed functionality. While successful completion of an information systems project is a challenge, there are some things that can be done to improve the probability of project success. This book reviews a number of project management tools, including, developing organizational ability to work on projects, better systems analysis and design, project estimation, and project control and termination.
