Project Portfolio Management

Foreword
Acknowledgments
The Author
Introduction

Part One: A Practical Guide to Project Portfolio Management

Section One: What Is Project Portfolio Management, and Why Do We Need It?
1.1 Why Do We Need Project Portfolio Management?
1.2 What Is Project Portfolio Management?

Section Two: The Fundamentals of a Project Portfolio Management Process
2.1 Selecting Projects for the Pipeline
2.2 Maintaining the Pipeline
2.3 Executing Project Portfolio Management
2.4 Tools for Project Portfolio Management
2.5 Implementing Project Portfolio Management

Section Three: The Finer Points of Project Portfolio Management
3.1 Defining PPM: A Bridge or a Hub?
3.2 A Prequalification Process for Selecting Projects for the Portfolio
3.3 The Impact of Uncertainty on Projects and the Portfolios
3.4 Is There a Gorilla in Your Portfolio? Turning Opportunity into Value
3.5 Work Breakdown Structures for Risk and Strategies
3.6 An Introduction to Earned Value Analysis

Part Two: Contributed Chapters and Case Studies

Section Four: PPM Techniques and Issues: Portfolio Planning
4.1 Linking Strategy and Project Portfolio Management
4.2 How to Determine the Value of a Project
4.3 Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Improve Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
4.4 The Efficient Frontier Technique for Analyzing Project Portfolio Management

Section Five: PPM Techniques and Issues: Organizing and Implementing
5.1 Making the Case for Project Portfolio Management
5.2 The Role of Executives in Effective Project Portfolio Management
5.3 Project Offices Are Key Components of IT Governance

Section Six: PPM Applications: Information Technology
6.1 A Summary of First Practices and Lessons Learned in Information Technology Portfolio Management
6.2 The Backbone System of IT Management and Governance: IT Management and Governance 101

Section Seven: PPM Applications: New Product Development
7.1 A Stage-Gate® Idea-to-Launch Framework for Driving New Products to Market
7.2 Portfolio Management for Product Innovation

Section Eight: Applications: PPM for Theory of Constraint Advocates
8.1 Applying the Theory of Constraints to Project Portfolio Management

Section Nine: Case Studies
9.1 Managing Your Technology Pipeline Portfolio Management Process and Its Evolution over Time
9.2 Using PPM to Ease the Hewlett-Packard - Compaq Merger
9.3 Developing a PPM Capability at America Online
9.4 EW Scripps: A Media Giant's Portfolio Management Solution

Section Ten: What Others Are Saying About PPM
10.1 Beyond the Triple Constraints: Developing a Business Venture Approach to Project Management.
10.2 From Overload to Productivity via Systematic Decision Making
10.3 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective IT Portfolio Management Implementations
10.4 Project Portfolio Management Basics
10.5 Integrating Project Portfolio Management with Project Management Practices to Deliver Competitive Advantage

Notes
Index