PM Solutions is a project management firm helping organizations execute, govern, and measure their portfolios to improve business performance.
PM Solutions wrote the book(s) on project management. Our industry experts have published numerous writings on a broad range of topics and we continuously expand our library of industry resources. For more information or to make a purchase, click on the links below.
NEW! An Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs
An Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs reveals best practices in some of the most successful project management offices in the world - winners and finalists of the PMO of the Year® award.
The Strategic Project Office
The Strategic Project Office: Second Edition, provides step-by-step instructions for establishing and maturing a project management office (PMO). Detailed are the four primary areas of knowledge and practice regarding the PMO: governance and portfolio management, resource optimization, organizational change, and performance measurement.
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Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century
Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century, connects the dots between agile practices, project management practices, and key business drivers within organizations. This book inspires project managers to use agility when responding quickly to changing business needs.
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Project Management Essentials
The foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order to successfully manage projects is presented in this introductory text. Project Management Essentials, Second Edition, covers the basic concepts of the five fundamental project management processes, defining requirements, schedules, risk management, and change control.
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Project Management Roles & Responsibilities
Project Management Roles & Responsibilities: Second Edition, provides comprehensive descriptions of the responsibilities, skills, and desired backgrounds for project personnel to guide you in crafting job descriptions that are appropriate for your organization, or to rethink the ways in which you have assigned responsibilities to existing positions.
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Seven Steps to Strategy Execution
Seven Steps to Strategy Execution gives organizations a logical framework to help them communicate strategy to the people and processes that make it a reality. And it further builds organizational capability by continually measuring performance against the organization's selected strategy performance metrics.
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Advancing Organizational Project Management Maturity
Advancing Organizational Project Management Maturity shows how to apply a project management maturity model in the real world, and the benefits of advancing maturity. and The book explores best practices in using a strategic project office, in building project manager competency, and in aligning projects and corporate strategy.
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Project Management Maturity Model
Project Management Maturity Model, Second Edition is a roadmap showing an organization how to systematically move to higher levels of performance by improving project success. It's a comprehensive tool for enhancing your project management practices and processes, covering areas critical to organizational improvement such as the project office, management oversight and professional development.
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Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office
Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office explores the SPO's potential to transform an enterprise by making the most of people within an organization. This volume provides an exhaustive review of topics such as the hiring, retention, measurement, training, and professional development of knowledge workers in project management.
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Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model
The ultimate goal of the Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model is to help you improve the capability of your organization’s project portfolio management processes. By focusing on specific project portfolio management-related improvement processes, your organization can best leverage the resources assigned to improvement activities while rallying the organization around specific goals.
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Justifying the Value of Project Management
Whether you want to implement a project office, a project management methodology, project management software, train staff in project management tools and techniques, or just add improvements in these areas, this book will help you understand how to go about building your business case and selling it to senior executives to attain the funding needed.
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What Makes a Good Project Manager
What Makes a Good Project Manager offers a clear and succinct description of what it takes to be a competent project manager. The essays, book excerpts, and other materials in this book focus on key personal skills and interpersonal abilities that lead to project manager success, such as mentoring, decision-making, facilitating, and communication.
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Project Portfolio Management
Project Portfolio Management captures the essence of 40 years of business modeling and management science applications and presents project portfolio management in a format that is both informative and practical. You’ll discover insights into how successful businesses manage their project portfolios—how they choose the projects they undertake, how they get the right balance and mix of projects, and how they allocate their resources across various projects.
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