The long road to lean -- What is lean? -- Overview of project management fundamentals -- Fundamental lean concepts, tools, and techniques -- Lean and project management processes -- Lean project management using the PDCA cycle -- Project management for a lean project using DMAIC -- Ten final...

"Preface While portfolio management has been applied in the financial industry since the early 1950s, it is only within the past two to three decades that academic research plus guidelines for practitioners have been conducted and made available. Although some organizations used portfolio...

"BACKGROUND As detailed more thoroughly in Chapter 1, project health assessments are not a new concept. They have been conducted ever since project sponsors realized a project was "failing" and took action to prevent that failure. Even formal methodologies to evaluate project health are not new:...