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Beginner’s Guide to Project Portfolio Management
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Beginner’s Guide to Project Portfolio Management

Critical Steps, Tools, Benefits


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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Overview
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

Agencies typically run scores of projects concurrently, raising questions about priorities, resource allocation and sequencing: thus, the need for project portfolio management (PPM). Digital project manager Ben Aston, writing for The Digital Project Manager platform, provides a thorough introduction to the rationales, benefits and processes of PPM. Agency owners, program managers and project directors, as well as prospective portfolio project managers, will appreciate Aston’s clear, authoritative overview and useful tips.

Take-Aways

  • Project portfolio management (PPM) means centralized management of an agency’s projects.
  • PPM works toward obtaining the maximum return from the overall slate of projects.
  • PPM can benefit decision making, prioritization, efficiency, accountability and change management.

About the Author

Ben Aston is founder of The Digital Project Manager, a platform for project management information.