Portfolio and Programme Management Demystified: Managing Multiple Projects Successfully - Softcover

Reiss, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0419213503 ISBN 13: 9780419213505

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

This book provides the perfect companion to Geoff Reiss's Project Management Demystified and presents the techniques of multi-project management in a lively, approachable manner. It covers budgets, cost control, planning problems and matrix management formulae. Drawing on a wide range of case histories and lively examples, it tackles organisational issues and the multi-project conflicts that often arise.

About this title

From the Author

The book for everyone dealing with more than one project
Managing projects is, it is said, like juggling three balls - cost, quality and time. Programme Management (portfolio management, multi-project management) is like a organising a troupe of jugglers all juggling their three balls and swapping balls from time to time.

I've been working in the programme management arena for a number of years and I wrote this book to help others.

It follows on from Project Management Demystified which has become much more widely read that I could have dared to hope.

I've covered the practical problems in a practical way and I hope it will help you too.

Synopsis

"They say that project management is like juggling with three balls - time, cost and quality; programme management is like a troupe of circus performers standing in a circle, all juggling three balls simultaneously and swapping balls from time to time." Each project has its own restraints of time, cost and resources and must also be seen in terms of its effect on other projects and resources. If programme management takes place in the normal three-dimensional world, then project management takes place in a flat two-dimensional world. Programme management is the coordinated management of a portfolio of projects, all drawing on the same resource. In practice, that is what goes on in most organisations running a number of projects simultaneously, from government departments to computer software houses and engineering firms. Such organisations may have a good grasp of running projects using the existing project management techniques but now need to know how to plan each individual project so that all projects are planned and resourced appropriately.

This book provides the perfect companion to Geoff Reiss's Project Management Demystified and presents the techniques of multi-project management in a lively, approachable manner. It covers budgets, cost control, planning problems and matrix management formulae. Drawing on a wide range of case histories and lively examples, it tackles organisational issues and the multi-project conflicts that often arise. Programme Management Demystified offers clear guidance for managers, project managers and consultants in a wide range of industries and services, on how to become organised enough to manage multiple projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0419213503
• ISBN 13: 9780419213505
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272