Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed

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Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed
by Gerald I. Kendall, Steve C. Rollins
from J. Ross Publishing

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Building a Different Kind of PMO
  Despite the fact that this reads (and sounds) like a whitepaper, it's a useful book which makes two points incredibly well:
  Point #1) Too many organizations try to save money on projects (cost efficiency) when the benefits of completing the project earlier far outweigh the potential cost savings.
  You might, for example, be able to complete project X with perfect resource management (all staff are perfectly busy!) in 100 days for $1 million. Alternatively, you could hire some extra people and have... more info

• The best book on PMOs
  I have read half a dozen of books on PMOs and this is the best ! You can find a lot of useful information in this book. In fact so much that it is overwhelming.
  The authors present the main value of the PMO as the implementation of formal portfolio management and give concrete examples of what happens without: priority conflicts among executives, pet projects being run and the like.
  I have found the following aspects particularly useful: tips to promote the concept to executives and calculate... more info

• A PMO MUST HAVE
  This book is one of the best advanced PM resources I have read. The material is easy to understand and apply directly to turning around project management related problems. The authors provide real-world scenarios and solutions for addressing common strategic, implementation, and human behavior constraints. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for advanced project portfolio management techniques.

• Excellent PMO book
  I help corporations build PMOs. This book does a great job of covering some of latest and most effective thinking, tools and techniques in the business.
  The author does a great job covering many of the project management approaches available today. He especially does a great job explaining the use of Lean, Critical Chain and Scrum techniques.
  A must for every professionals bookshelf.

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