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Managing multiple projects : planning, scheduling, and allocating resources for competitive advantage / edited by James S. Pennypacker, Lowell D. Dye.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Center for Business Practices (Series). PM practices.
- Center for Business Practices. PM practices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Project management.
- Time management.
- Resource allocation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Marcel Dekker, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Details time-efficient and cost-effective strategies to evaluate, select, prioritize, plan, and manage multiple projects. Presents proven methods and practical applications for the development of successful project portfolios and prosperous multiproject environments. Provides useful models and scheduling frameworks for increasecd quality and productivity.""
- Contents:
- Series Introduction; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Project Portfolio Management and Managing Multiple Projects: Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Software Packages Don't Manage Projects-People Do!; Managing Multiple Projects in the 21st Century; Why Is Multiple-Project Management Hard and How Can We Make It Easier?; Multiproject Scheduling and Resource Allocation; Effective Resource Management- Debunking the Myths; A Learning Loop for Successful Program Management; Programs, Portfolios, and Pipelines: How to Anticipate Executives' Strategic Questions; Multiproject Scheduling and Management
- Organizing for Multiple ProjectsImproving Multiproject Management by Using a Queuing Theory Approach; A Multiproject Management Framework for New Product Development; Extensions to Multiple Projects; Program Management-Turning Many Projects into Few Priorities with Theory of Constraints; Operational Measurements for Product Development Organizations; New Problems, New Solutions: Making Portfolio Management More Effective; Juggling the Interdependent Project Portfolio; Program Management: A Key for Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems
- Managing Multiple Projects in Large Information Systems OrganizationsHuman Resource Allocation in a Multiproject Research and Development Environment; The Big Puzzle-Multiproject Management Is Redefining the Way Companies Handle Technology, People, and Vendors to Make All the Pieces Fit; The Toyota Benchmark: Multiproject Development Centers; Multiple Projects, Limited Resources: Implementing Effective Project Management; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-04-017788-3
- 0-429-17777-1
- 1-4822-9473-7
- 1-280-09666-7
- 0-203-90926-7
- 0-8247-4468-3
- 9780429177774
- OCLC:
- 61151760
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