Managing Multiple Projects: Planning, Scheduling, and Allocating Resources for Competitive Advantage

by Lowell Dye (Editor)

Overview

"Details time-efficient and cost-effective strategies to evaluate, select, prioritize, plan, and manage multiple projects. Presents proven methods and practical applications for the development of successful project portfolios and prosperous multiproject environments. Provides useful models and scheduling frameworks for increasecd quality and productivity."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367396060
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James S. Pennpacker, Lowell D. Dye

Table of Contents

Series Introduction James S. Pennypacker v

Preface vii

Part I Overview

1 Project Portfolio Management and Managing Multiple Projects: Two Sides of the Same Coin? James S. Pennypacker Lowell D. Dye 1

2 Software Packages Don't Manage Projects-People Do! Curtis W. Clark 11

3 Managing Multiple Projects in the 21st Century Lewis R. Ireland 21

4 Why Is Multiple-Project Management Hard and How Can We Make It Easier? William J. Olford 35

Part II Time, Cost, and Other Management Issues

5 Multiproject Scheduling and Resource Allocation Jack R. Meredith Samuel J. Mantel, Jr. 45

6 Effective Resource Management-Debunking the Myths Michael McCauley Ann Bundy William Seidman 57

7 A Learning Loop for Successful Program Management Michel Thiry 69

8 Programs, Portfolios, and Pipelines: How to Anticipate Executives' Strategic Questions Gregory D. Githens 83

9 Multiproject Scheduling and Management Geoff Reiss 91

10 Organizing for Multiple Projects Neal Whitten 101

Part III Tools, Techniques, and Methods

11 Improving Multiproject Management by Using a Queuing Theory Approach Nino Levy Shlomo Globerson 113

12 A Multiproject Management Framework for New Product Development Adriano De Maio Roberto Verganti Mariano Corso 127

13 Extensions to Multiple Projects Robert K. Wysocki Robert Beck, Jr. David B. Crane 153

14 Program Management-Turning Many Projects into Few Priorities with Theory of Constraints Francis S. Patrick 163

15 Operational Measurements for Product Development Organizations Tony Rizzo 173

16 New Problems, New Solutions: Making Portfolio Management More Effective Robert G. Cooper Scott J. Edgett Elko J. Kleinschmidt 181

17 Juggling the Interdependent Project Portfolio Michael Singer Dobson 211

Part IV Best Practices and Applications

18 Program Management: A Key for Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems Ken Jones Jolene Weiskittel 229

19 Managing Multiple Projects in Large Information Systems Organizations Steve Yager 239

20 Human Resource Allocation in a Multiproject Research and Development Environment Martien H. A. Hendricks Bas Voeten Leon H. Kroep 249

21 The Big Puzzle-Multiproject Management Is Redefining the Way Companies Handle Technology, People, and Vendors to Make All the Pieces Fit Clinton Wilder Bruce Caldwell Martin J. Garvey 263

22 The Toyota Benchmark: Multiproject Development Centers Michael A. Cusumano Kentaro Nobeoka 271

23 Multiple Projects, Limited Resources; Implementing Effective Project Management Bradley K. Alston 299

Bibliography 309

Index 321

Editorial Reviews

Project leaders, managers, and team members, as well as cost engineers, analysts, and students in project management and planning, will glean ideas and methods for managing multiple projects with this reference detailing strategies for evaluating, selecting, prioritizing, planning, and managing multiple projects while reinforcing organizational goals. Examples in large information systems organizations and health care delivery systems are discussed. Pennypacker directs a business center in the private sector and publishes newsletters on project management. Dye is a corporate and public trainer and member of the Project Management Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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