BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: Enterprise Project Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Management by Projects
Author: Claude H. Maley
Publisher: CRC Press
List Price: $47.96
Format: Paperback, 245 pages
Publication Date: 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-45582-2
Reviewer: Raghuveer Gadiraju, PMP
Review Date: July 2024
Introduction
This book covers the wider aspects of Project Management from an enterprise-wide perspective. Enterprise Project Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Management by Projects describes the relationships and the dynamics among various entities of an organization, in the context of managing change through projects. Readers will understand how projects originate from an organization’s vision and mission and the linkage between strategy and execution. The book provides guidance on how organizations can improve capabilities and maturity and increase the probability of successes in managing complex changes thorough portfolios, programs and projects.
In the current context of global, fast-paced developments in areas of technology, geo-politics, climate, energy, supply chain, life-science, education, healthcare, customers’ aspirations and demands etc., organizations are having to more frequently reassess strategy and its alignment to mission and vision and prepare the organization to face new challenges and/or compete better. This is causing the need to improve the rigor of evaluating what and how to change, and where to deploy limited resources to implement the changes and establish a robust mechanism for feedback to check whether the expected benefits are being realized as planned. In this context, this book is timely and a valuable read and reference, and useful to a wide range of stakeholders interested in project management. There is an in-depth coverage of several important aspects of Enterprise Project Management.
Overview of Book’s Structure
The book addresses five important aspects of Enterprise Project Management and is logically structured accordingly: (1) Achieving organizational goals, (2) Management of programs, (3) Benefits realization management, (4) Stakeholder management and engagement, and (5) Project Portfolio Management and the Project Management Office (PMO). Each of the chapters covers in-depth the concepts, processes, tools and roles involved, interlinks with other chapters etc.
The first chapter “Achieving organization goals” gives the reader a clear understanding of how organizations strategize to tackle various business challenges, strive to transform and adjust to perform better.
The second chapter “Management of programs” explains in detail the role of programs as the vehicle to convert organization’s strategy into action and obtain the benefits. This chapter covers program selection, planning, program benefits map, link to projects and other aspects.
The third chapter “Benefits realization management” covers the logical relationship between the strategic intent of the organization, the rationale behind investments, and the process of realizing the benefits.
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How to cite this review: Gadiraju, R. (2024). Enterprise Project Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Management by Projects, book review, PM World Journal, Vol. XIII, Issue VIII, August. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/pmwj144-Aug2024-Gadiraju-Enterprise-Project-Management-book-review.pdf
About the Reviewer
Raghuveer Gadiraju
Lewisville, Texas, USA
Raghuveer Gadiraju is a senior project manager with Infosys Ltd. He has more than two decades of project/program management and consulting experience in Information Technology mostly related to ERP related projects in USA, Japan and Europe. He has specialization in implementing SAP ERP in the area of enterprise project management processes for global companies. Prior to entering the IT industry, he worked for ten years as an engineer in manufacturing of nuclear reactor components and capacity expansion projects. He has an MBA degree from UT Dallas, is a certified PMP, certified scrum master, six-sigma green belt and certified in SAP S/4 HANA Asset Management. He is a member of PMI since 2004, and at present, a volunteer for PMI Dallas. In the past, served as board member for Hyderabad (India) local chapter and as a faculty, conducted several workshops for CAPM and PMP certifications.
He can be contacted at Raghuveer.gadiraju@hotmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghuveer-gadiraju/
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