Demonstrates how Project Management Office (PMO) can reduce the costs of projects, decrease time-to-market for new products, increase corporate profits and ensure project success. This work discusses the motivations for adopting a PMO, including project performance, project manager competency and the organizational desire to excel.

This book presents the success factors of a virtual project team and illustrates an approach for assessing the maturity of this team. It contains a performance evaluation tool for team members, describing how best to motivate different types of people on virtual team assignments to achieve optimal results.

Written by two of the first people to obtain the Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification from the Project Management Institute, this book explores various competency models for program management. The book delineates a competency model that follows the framework of PMI's model for project managers but is applied to program managers with performance and personal competencies. After an overview of the model, the text presents three separate questionnaires designed for organizations, existing program managers, and aspiring program managers, respectively, to assess their own...

Program management is a rapidly emerging offshoot of project management. So much so that AT&T, IBM, and other organizations, both large and small in all sectors, have initiated a push to certify program managers. And, although universities offer courses in program management, there are few books available to guide program managers through this field that requires a broad level of knowledge and experience.

The definitive reference on program management, Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach provides this much needed guidance. Edited by Dr. Ginger Levin,...