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Review Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice – Thirty Case Studies from around the World

Henny Portman

The book Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice – Thirty Case Studies from around the World by Jamal Moustafaev briefly explains project portfolio management by looking at the three pillars of project portfolio management: Project value. value vs. risk). Case studies. Strategic alignment.

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Change management helps when implementing risk responses

Kiron Bondale

A student in a project management class I taught shared the concern that it was very hard for her to get risk responses implemented. Acceptance is a risk response strategy, but project managers are not supposed to just report on accidents, they are expected to prevent them. But there’s only so much that they can do by themselves.

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Sauce & Spoon: Tips for Your Google Capstone course

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s hard to know what they are looking for in the Sauce & Spoon case study, so if you’re working through the course, here are some tips as you prepare to submit your capstone assignments. It’s not an agile project management case study but I can tell you that it’s realistic. Zero points for that.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Finding case studies of projects There are lots of case studies available to read about projects. The National Audit Office publishes reports each year on major project performance, and those reports regularly include examples and case studies.

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Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management: UVA Darden Course Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are also case study questions that you answer via the discussion prompts. It covers cost control, work breakdown structures, schedule risk analysis, cost risk analysis: these are weighty topics. It’s fully online so you can fit in study around your daily life. It’s cost-effective.

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Case Study: Rex Materials Group Uses LiquidPlanner to Optimize Entire Value Chain

LiquidPlanner

“We knew that the ability to generate a ship date when a PO was submitted—with 90-percent on-time performance—would make customers happier and give us a competitive edge, and LiquidPlanner was the least expensive and lowest-risk way to achieve that goal.”. – Kevin Kohls, Director of Continuous Improvement, Rex Materials.

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Managing Multiple Projects: The Research

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Case study. Case study. “I Case study. I documented this as a risk, and continued to communicate it up the chain to leadership, but nothing changed. Case study. Two of the techniques I teach for managing multiple projects are merging meetings and consolidating risks.