Organizational Project Portfolio Management: A Practitioner's Guide

This comprehensive guide offers a practical methodology and toolkit for designing, building, and managing a balanced project portfolio.

With a focus on financial management principles, the book provides three key steps to achieving a profitable project portfolio: defining your investment strategy, selecting the right projects, and effectively managing them.

The author presents a model and methodology for creating a balance along any project characteristic, such as size, risk, or development time.

Additionally, the book demonstrates how earned value management techniques can be applied at the portfolio level to address risk and uncertainty.

The text also covers reprioritizing projects when resources become limited, monitoring and managing portfolio performance using key metrics, and determining whether a project should be continued or terminated.

A case study is included to illustrate the application of the methods and tools presented in the book, with accompanying case study exercises to enhance the learning process.

Downloadable charts for managing resources, discounted cash flow and Monte Carlo simulation spreadsheets, and worksheets for portfolio and project case examples are available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com.