Program & Portfolio Management

This book is a guide to managing project portfolios and programs. It teaches you the “best practices” tools and techniques for managing multiple projects and their project managers. It includes a complete “best practices” methodology to use in training your project managers. The book also provides techniques for coping with executive teams with conflicting objectives and teaches you the software techniques for allocating resources to multiple projects based on priorities. The portfolio management section also includes techniques for re-balancing the portfolio and resource pool as priorities change. (389 full size pages)

You follow a program/portfolio manager assigned to manage all the projects in an organization and manage a large program that affects every department in the organization. You follow his efforts through the entire lifecycle from correcting ineffective organizational project processes to instituting a new process for initiating projects, setting priorities and allocating resources. The program manager uses best practices techniques to deal with executive level politics and turf wars over resource allocation.