Portfolio Management: A Strategic Approach

by John Wyzalek (Editor), Ginger Levin, PMP, PgMP (Editor)

Overview

Recognizing the importance of selecting and pursuing programs, projects, and operational work that add sustainable business value that benefits end users, the Project Management Institute (PMI) issued its first Standard on Portfolio Management in 2006. In 2014, it launched the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) credential-which several of the

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000454185
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/15/2014
Series:	Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	358
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Dr. Ginger Levin is a Senior Consultant and Educator in project management. Her specialty areas are portfolio management, program management, the Project Management Office, metrics, and maturity assessments. She is certified as a PMP, PgMP and as an OPM3 Certified Professional. She was the second person in the world to receive the PgMP. As an OPM3 Certified Professional, she has conducted over 25 maturity assessments using the OPM3 Product Suite tool.

In addition, Dr. Levin is an Adjunct Professor for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville where she teaches in its M.S. in Project Management Program, for SKEMA (formerly Esc Lille) University, France, and RMIT in Melbourne, Australia in their doctoral programs in project management.

In consulting, she has served as Project Manager in numerous efforts for Fortune 500 and public sector clients, including Genentech, Cargill, Abbott Vascular, UPS, Citibank, the Food and Drug Administration, General Electric, SAP, EA DS, John Deere, Schreiber Foods, TRW, New York City Transit Authority, the U .S. Joint Forces Command, and the U .S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to her work in consulting, she held positions of increasing responsibility with the U .S. Government, including the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and the General Accounting Office.

Dr. Levin is the editor of Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (2012), author of Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers, published in 2010. She is the co-author of Program Management Complexity: A Competency Model (2011), Implementing Program Management: Forms and Templates Aligned with the Standard for Program Management Second Edition (2008), Project Portfolio Management, Metrics for Project Management, Achieving Project Management Success with Virtual Teams, Advanced Project

Table of Contents

Organizational Agility through Project Portfolio Management. Corporate Strategy-Converting Thoughts and Concepts into Action. Establishing a Governance Model for Strategic Portfolio Management. IT Governance as an Innovation Tool; Dr. Subbu Murthy Governance and Portfolio Management. Project Portfolio Governance. Business Intelligence Framework for Project Portfolios; Portfolio Management Success. Building the Bridge between Organizational Strategy and Portfolio Management: Alignment and Prioritization. The Accuracy of Portfolio Risk Estimation. Marketing the Project Portfolio; Strategic Portfolio Management through Effective Communications. Project Portfolio Management and Communication. Addressing Portfolio Information Issues through the Use of Business Social Networks, Stars, and Gatekeepers. When Stakeholders, Goals, and Strategy Conflict; Portfolio Alignment: A Strategic App roach through the Predicative Value of Outliers' Data. Delivering Organizational Value in the Zone of Uncertainty.

Editorial Reviews

"This book defines strategic portfolio management and its value to furthering business objectives and how it enhances an organization’s agility in responding to constantly changing market needs. It provides tools and techniques to use in the portfolio management team and an awareness of the critical success factors that must be addressed and measured to know that a portfolio management activity is adding value and maintaining management support necessary for its continued existence. ... The emphasis on organizational agility, inclusion of profit/loss (P&L) leaders, and a process to periodically refresh the impact of changing strategic objectives makes this book a template for modern business."
—S. Lance Van Nostrand, PM World Journal Portfolio Management: A Strategic Approach, Vol. IV, Issue III – March 2015

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