Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice: Thirty Case Studies from around the World / Edition 1

by Jamal Moustafaev

Overview

Every CEO in the world, if questioned, will always complain that there are a lot of ideas to implement, but, unfortunately, insufficient resources to accomplish them. This book provides a solution to this dilemma by supplying techniques to assess the value of projects, prioritize projects, and decide which projects to implement and which to postpone. In addition, it describes various methods of balancing project portfolios and different strategic alignment models. The book provides thirty real-life project portfolio management case studies from pharmaceutical, product development, financial, energy, telecommunications, not-for-profit and professional services industries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498769242
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2016
Series:	Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management , #24
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jamal Moustafaev, MBA, PMP, president and founder of Thinktank Consulting, is an internationally acclaimed expert in the areas of

project/portfolio management, project scoping, process improvement, and corporate training. He has completed projects for private sector

companies and government organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, including the US Department of

Defense (USA), Siemens (Germany), Petronas Oil (Malaysia), and TeliaSonera (Sweden), to name a few.

Moustafaev is a certified Project Management Professional (PMPR). He holds an MBA in Finance and a BBA (Finance and Management

Science) from Simon Fraser University. In addition to teaching a highly acclaimed Project Management Essentials course at the British

Columbia Institute of Technology (Vancouver, Canada), Moustafaev also offers several project and portfolio management corporate seminars

through his company:

Table of Contents

Introduction to Project Portfolio Management. Three Pillars of PPM. Resource Estimation for Project Portfolios. Project Portfolio Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Project Portfolio Management in the Product Development Industry. Project Portfolio Management in the
Financial Industry. Project Portfolio Management in the Energy and Logistics Industry. Project Portfolio Management in the
Telecommunications Industry. Project Portfolio Management in the Not For Profit Industry. Project Portfolio Management in the Professional
Services Industry. Statistical Summary. Implementing Project Portfolio Management - Lessons Learned from Implementations.