This book delivers a detailed examination of the risk management function for portfolio managers, program managers, and the PMO function. Organisations invest a lot of time, money, and energy into developing and utilizing risk management practices as part of their project management disciplines. Yet, when you move beyond the project to the ......
It offers real-life examples of PMO success stories, and provides a practical roadmap to setting up an effective PMO. Written by experts from the worldwide project management and project management office (PMO) community, "Business Driven PMO Success Stories" provides readers with an understanding of the value a PMO can provide, and the knowledge ......
It presents a workable way to add Agile practices to traditional waterfall processes. Projects in the near future will be managed with a hybrid of Agile and traditional waterfall processes. The project managers who learn how to do this first will gain a huge career advantage over those who lag behind. This engaging and highly instructive guide ......
Analysis of Structures on Elastic Foundations is a practical guide for structural and geotechnical engineers as well as graduate students working in foundation engineering. Included are detailed descriptions of practical methods of analysis of various foundations including simple beams on elastic foundations as well as very complex foundations ......
This title offers a comprehensive and practical framework for implementing project portfolio management in R&D and IT enterprises. This unique guide and professional reference presents a structured framework for practitioners and students of project, program, and portfolio management to enhance their strategic and analytic capabilities in the ......
Case Studies, Effective Practices and Emerging Trends
Failure to manage supply chain risk effectively can have a significant negative impact on an organization. Over 30 international contributing authors provide a set of best practices, processes, tools and techniques, supported by cases and illustrative examples, that can be adopted to proactively evaluate, manage, or mitigate risk in their supply ......
Designed for the busy, practicing project manager, "Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Project 2010" is the perfect guide to getting up to speed with the new features of Project 2010, giving readers the confidence and knowledge to create effective schedules more efficiently using best practices. Through the use of best practices, helpful screen ......
This is a practical and accessible guide that demonstrates how to intelligently and successfully reduce IT costs. Eliminating and driving down costs have long been second nature for many IT organizations. In challenging economic times, even further culling of IT costs is a requirement for the survival of many businesses. Whether in the midst of an ......
This is a unique and holistic exploration of project portfolio management - from strategic planning to final evaluation. This unique text provides a universal view of project portfolio management (PPM) that includes people, process, tools, and techniques that work synergistically within the organization to produce portfolio decisions with the best ......
