Download or read book The Power of Enterprise wide Project Management written by Dennis Bolles and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book The Power of Enterprise PMOs and Enterprise Wide Project Management written by Dennis L Bolles Pmp and published by Pbmconcepts. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management written by Paul C. Dinsmore and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Enterprise Project Governance written by Paul C. Dinsmore and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our increasingly competitive global economy, companies in all industries are struggling to survive and seeking new ways to do more--and this places unprecedented pressure on project managers to take on and govern multiple efforts simultaneously. Enterprise Project Governance reveals proven techniques for dealing with the multiplicity of projects and ensuring that programs and initiatives create the value needed to help your organization prosper. Through enlightening examples and case studies, readers will learn how to examine new project proposals and align them with the priorities, resources, and strategies of the organization. But this isn’t a one-person job. As its title suggests, Enterprise Project Governance takes a more systemic approach to the important work of managing projects, teaching practical methods for incorporating enterprise project governance into an organization's culture, synchronizing it with corporate governance, and maximizing efficiency and results across departments. Whether you’re a boardroom exec, an experience project manager struggling to keep up, or someone working in the trenches and hoping to advance, this go-to guide will help you manage your workload--and even increase it--with ease.

Download or read book Leading Successful PMOs written by Peter Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The AMA Handbook of Project Management written by Paul C. Dinsmore and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Building Project Management Centers of Excellence written by Dennis Bolles and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book A Compendium of Pmo Case Studies written by MR Darrel G Hubbard Pe and published by Pbmconcepts. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Strategic Project Management Made Simple written by Terry Schmidt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Strategic Project Office written by J. Kent Crawford and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-11-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the initiation, design, execution, and control of a strategic project office, this book provides step-by-step instructions for establishing a PMO. The author emphasizes cost management, cultural change, risk assessment, resource allocation, and skills tracking to increase project value, organizational efficiency, and productivity. He explores various aspects relating to planning and implementing the strategic project office, and concludes by considering how to change the organizational culture to match the new organization. Concise and easy, the book covers the many pitfalls and minefields and provide strategies to avoid them.

Download or read book Right Projects Done Right written by Paul C. Dinsmore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Right Projects Done Right! reflects the advances that have been made since the concern for managing multiple projects in organizations first emerged more than a decade ago. This book includes findings and solutions that address three vital questions: Has the right portfolio of projects been chosen to ensure that company strategy is implemented successfully? Have the right projects with the right scope been selected as candidates for the portfolio? Are the projects managed well? Dinsmore and Cooke-Davies help managers answer these questions by providing them with the information they need to implement an enterprise-wide project management environment.

Download or read book Project Management Maturity Model written by J. Kent Crawford and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assisting organizations in improving their project management processes, the Project Management Maturity Model defines the industry standard for measuring project management maturity.Project Management Maturity Model, Second Edition provides a roadmap showing organizations how to move to higher levels of organizational behavior, improving

Download or read book Qualitative Case Studies on Implementation of Enterprise Wide Systems written by Liisa von Hellens and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together recent qualitative research studies in enterprise-wide implementations. This collection is useful as a teaching case for academia, a student reference and also for academics, researchers and IT practitioners who wish to gain a broad view of ERP implementation success and failure, This book provides relevant methodologies and recent empirical research findings in the area and includes sufficient background information for an understanding of each case but focuses on providing a rich description of more than a dozen real life cases.

Download or read book The PMOSIG s Program Management Office Handbook written by Craig J. Letavec and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook developed by the Project Management Institutes Program Management Office Specific Interest Group (PMOSIG) provides practical guidance to the project Management and PMO community on a variety of topics in the areas of: PMO Strategic and Tactical Management, PMO Governance, PMO Services, PMO Set-up and Execution, and PMO Performance and Maturity. It features insightful contributions from more than 20 subject matter experts, successful practitioners, distinguished authors and thought leaders with a variety of backgrounds and experiences from around the World. The authors include best practices and case studies for successfully aligning PMOs to business objectives, and delivering benefits/ROI, as well as numerous proven tools, templates, policies, procedures, standards, methodologies and processes for successfully developing, and managing PMOs and for expanding their scope of services.

Download or read book Standard for Organizational Project Management OPM written by and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PMI's latest foundational standard, The Standard for Organizational Project Management (OPM), expands upon the popular Implementing Organizational Project Management: A Practice Guide, published in 2014. This newly-created standard is a result of survey feedback that revealed acceptance of the approach and increasing interest in an expanded version. OPM is defined as the integration of people, knowledge, and processes, supported by tools across all functional domains of the organization. The approach further advances an organization's performance by developing and linking portfolio, program, and project management principles and practices with organizational enablers (e.g., structural, cultural, technological, and human resource practices) and business processes to support strategic objectives. OPM helps organizations deliver value through the following principles:•Aligning strategy•Consistent execution and delivery•Cross-functional collaboration•Adding value to the organization•Continuous training Although useful for any organization that is seeking to better meet its strategic objectives, this standard is particularly beneficial for organizations that do not have a unified project management approach.

Download or read book Scaling BPM Adoption From Project to Program with IBM Business Process Manager written by Lisa Dyer and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your first Business Process Management (BPM) project is a crucial first step on your BPM journey. It is important to begin this journey with a philosophy of change that allows you to avoid common pitfalls that lead to failed BPM projects, and ultimately, poor BPM adoption. This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the methodology and best practices that lead to a successful project and how to use that success to scale to enterprise-wide BPM adoption. This updated edition contains a new chapter on planning a BPM project. The intended audience for this book includes all people who participate in the discovery, planning, delivery, deployment, and continuous improvement activities for a business process. These roles include process owners, process participants, subject matter experts (SMEs) from the operational business, and technologists responsible for delivery, including BPM analysts, BPM solution architects, BPM administrators, and BPM developers.

Download or read book The Five Tantras of Enterprise Agility written by Paramu Kurumathur and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has distilled the experience of working professionals involved in Agile transformation and has been written in an easy-to-read style. While the stories in the book make it a light reading experience, the values from the tales and their linkage to the five values of Enterprise Agility detailed in the book make it a great learning experience with tips on how one can implement these values within their own workplace or organization A highly recommended book for anyone contemplating on how to become Agile, and for others who are already on this path, how to stay Agile. Vinod Sood, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hughes Systique The software community has, over the years, been adopting a series of process innovations in their quest for delivering predictable, high-quality software. Agile approaches are a recent innovation that are becoming widely adopted across the world. However, most organizations that have gone Agile, have realized that they are not getting the benefits they were expecting with Agile and are searching for answers. This book from PM Power could help them significantly as it provides the priceless wisdom of many of their coaches in helping organizations not only successfully transform at an enterprise level into an Agile way of working but in sustaining such initiatives over time. Dr. A L Rao - Board Member - Trianz, EX COO- Wipro. Never have businesses and organizations faced such challenges like understanding market opportunities, customer requirements and risks as they are in today’s world as we face a global pandemic, geopolitical uncertainties and inequalities. This situation requires organizations to be more flexible and responsive and yes, more Agile, than ever before. The Five Tantras of Enterprise Agility couldn’t have come at a better time to help business leaders implement Agile in their design and development process. I highly recommend investing the time to read the book and learn how you can improve your current Agile implementation or for implementing Agile as a new approach. Marc Zionts, Executive Chairman, Precision Nutrition, Inc. I read “The Five tantras of Enterprise Agility” and enjoyed every bit of it. Intended for managers, it is indeed a great guide for those planning to launch the Agile journey in their organization or their client organization The style is conversational, the skill of the author to tell a compelling story is remarkable and deep subject matter conveyed in a light-load form factor remarkably well! With Agile getting mainstream and software entering every aspect of human endeavor, this book will be a must-read for most managers & consultants across the spectrum of industries - much beyond the software services industry! It is very contextual too! Starts before Covid-19, gets ready through the difficult period, and will see the light of the day on a day when hopefully Covid-19 would have become history! Prof S Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-Bangalore