A Manager's Guide to Project Management

A Manager’s Guide to Project Management

The FIRST executive's guide to driving greater organizational valuethrough project management!

* Align project management with business strategy

*Choose the right projects and oversee them effectively

* Structure yourorganization to promote better project decision-making

* Manage multipleprojects in complex globalized environments As an executive, you know there'sonly one reason to start a project: to add value.

Now there's a projectmanagement book that shares your perspective: a book that helps you optimizethe value of projects and project management throughout your organization. Topproject management consultant Michael Bender reveals how to make sure all yourprojects fully support your goals and run effectively from start to finish.

Bender shows how to use balanced portfolio techniques to drive maximum valuefrom every project, systematically reduce risk in tough-to-manage globalizedenvironments, and improve organizational performance through strategicoutsourcing. As an executive, you realize the rewards or suffer the penalty ofproject results. Here are the tools you need to get the results you'reafter--and get them consistently.

Key Concepts

• Value Tracks: trace even the most detailedproject objectives to the organization’s vision and strategic plan
  
• The Infinite Resource Pool: Learn how to combinestrategic outsourcing with proven project management concepts to captureunexpected opportunities without sacrificing your strategic projects
  
• The Organizational Goals Breakdown Structure (OGBS): A structured approach to develop a balanced portfolio for all projects
  
• The Portfolio Designer: The individual,department, or team that designs the organization’s portfolio to achieve allstrategic objectives while balancing resources
  
• The Balanced Portfolio: Align and balance allproject resources to the organization’s direction and strategy
  Practical Earned Value Management: learn how toapply this highly-recognized tool to discover and fix problems within yourorganization

Key Quotes

The efficient organization focusesresources on durable objectives
designed to move the organization toward itsvision.

Vision, mission, value, and quality statements designed asrhetoric
will achieve their goal: rhetoric.

Failing to balance the portfolio causes projects to drifttoward operations
instead of strategy.

About the Author

Michael B. Bender, PMP, is founder and CEO of Ally Business Developers, aconsortium of world-class business, organizational, and professionaldevelopment experts. Bender’s project/program management experience spans 30years and several continents. He has applied his technical, leadership, andmanagerial skills to projects including the Hubble Space Telescope; NEXRAD(Next Generation Weather Radar); and air traffic control systems for the UnitedStates, UK, and Taiwan. A frequent speaker for the DePaul University’s businessand MBA programs and recently completed a study of best practices in multi-projectmanagement.

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