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The Superior Project Organization: Global Competency Standards and Best Practices
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Frank Toney

©2002, hardcover, 351pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices

The Superior Project Organization describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project organizations based on research conducted by the Project Management Benchmarking Forum, detailing the results of seven years of benchmarking and investigation of the bottom line value of project organizations in large functional enterprises.
The Superior Project Manager: Global Competency Standards and Best Practices
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Frank Toney

©2002, hardcover, 314pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices

The Superior Project Manager describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project managers based on research conducted by the Project Management Benchmarking Forum, emphasizing the selection process, performance evaluation, and personnel development to provide the key elements for adjusting and adapting to flexible conditions, and highlighting enhancements in professional image, job performance, and personal earnings.
Project Control Functions
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© 2004, PDF for download, 64pp., Center for Business Practices


Organizations do not perform project control functions well. Managing issue, risk and change control processes are particularly troublesome. These conclusions are among the results of a survey designed to investigate best practices in the performance of project control functions in organizations. 
Project Portfolio Management
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© 2003, PDF for download, 106pp., Center for Business Practices


Project Portfolio Management: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices is the first survey to provide benchmark data on a wide variety of portfolio management issues. The findings are helpful in gauging the value of project portfolio management and what practices, in general, are most effective. 
Project Portfolio Management Maturity Benchmark
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© 2005, PDF for download, 89pp., Center for Business Practices


These research results document the maturity level of organizations in six components of project portfolio management: portfolio governance, project opportunity assessment, project prioritization and selection, portfolio communications management, portfolio performance management, and portfolio resource management. The report documents PPM maturity in a way that organizations can use to perform a self-assessment and compare their maturity to this baseline survey. 
High-Performance Project Teams
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© 2006, PDF for download, 138pp., Center for Business Practices


This research, sponsored by ProjectWorld, investigated whether or not organizations that exhibit team building best practices are, indeed, high performing, to confirm whether or not the practices identified are really "best practices," and to identify those practices that are most critical to the success of the organization.  
Strategy & Projects
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© 2006, PDF for download, 104pp., Center for Business Practices


High-performing organizations integrate strategy execution, portfolio, program, project, and performance management best practices more than other organizations. Conversely, low-performing organizations consistently underutilize these best practices. These conclusions are among the results of this survey research by the Center for Business Practices. 
Project Management Maturity Benchmark
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© 2006, PDF for download, 89pp., Center for Business Practices


This research shows clearly that organizational and project management performance is linked to reaching higher levels of maturity and shows what distinguishes high-performing organizations from low-performing ones. Also, results from a similar survey conducted in 2001 were compared with the current results to see whether or not there has been improvement over time in project management maturity industry-wide and, if so, how much. 
Troubled Projects: Project Failure or Project Recovery
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©2006, PDF for download, 83pp., Center for Business Practices

In this latest survey of senior project practitioners, the Center for Business Practices investigated the extent to which projects are troubled and recovered, the symptoms and root causes of the troubled projects, and the types of project recovery efforts and their outcomes.
Implementing Enterprise Project Management Systems
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© 2004, PDF for download, 46pp., Center for Business Practices


The CBP surveyed a highly select group of senior practitioners who are actively involved in implementing a Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management System in their organizations. The survey, Implementing Enterprise Project Management Systems, was designed to investigate the challenges and lessons learned in the implementation of EPM Systems as well as to benchmark the experiences of organizations that are currently undergoing EPM System implementations.