Preface

Welcome to the latest addition to the Little Big Book series: Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (PM4PITs).

In another book in this series entitled Effective Portfolio Management Systems, the co-authors wrote that “one of the biggest organizational wastes occurring today in both private and public organizations is the high percentage of failed projects and programs.” A “failed” project/program is one that does not meet one or more of its value-added objectives in terms of scope, quality, schedule, budget, or risk. While that earlier book in the series focuses on how Portfolio Leaders and PMO Directors can “do the right projects” in the strategic context of an organizational project portfolio, this book lays out how ...

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