{"product_id":"managing-projects-as-investments-stephen-a-devaux-9781482212709","title":"Managing Projects as Investments: Earned Value to Business Value","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery project is an investment; however, traditional project management methodologies do not support assessment of the business value that enables senior management to maximize decision making. The next evolution in project management, therefore, will be to manage projects as investments. \u003cb\u003eManaging Projects as Investments: Earned Value to Business Value\u003c\/b\u003e provides tools and metrics to enable planning, measuring, evaluating, and optimizing projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shifts the paradigm. It builds on traditional scope-cost-schedule tools, adding a critical new focus on the expected value of projects and programs. The enhancements in processes and metrics allow senior management and PMOs to guide the entire organization on the basis of business benefits, and to ensure that decisions ranging from project selection to resource assignment facilitate those goals. The author shows how framing projects as investments enables significant improvement in project performance. He provides metrics that allow you and your team to track and maximize performance based on ROI. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemonstrating the importance of recognizing an enabler project in a program, and why its value and cost of time are so great, the book provides the tools to determine right-sized staffing levels for project-driven organizations. It includes a comprehensive but easy-to-understand explanation of both basic and advanced earned value metrics, their shortcomings, and how they can be improved and shows you how to optimize contract terms on projects in a way that can avoid misaligned customer\/contractor goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen A. Devaux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1482212706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781482212709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e CRC Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Stephen A. Devaux","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088372773119,"sku":"9781482212709","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d028628e-cfb8-47a7-9be2-ad95056ad763.jpg?v=1769104473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/managing-projects-as-investments-stephen-a-devaux-9781482212709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}