Breakthrough Project Portfolio Management: Achieving the Next Level of Capability and Optimization - Hardcover

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Murali Kulathumani, PMP, has over 20 years of IT management experience. He has successfully managed large project portfolios at leading Silicon Valley firms such as Cisco, Symantec, and Kaiser Permanente. Murali has extensive knowledge of the full spectrum of portfolio capabilities. This leading expert also pioneered a simplified form of earned value management, called mEVM, which has been well received by industry practitioners and a number of organizations. In fact, it has become the standard at a billion-dollar business unit of a leading health care provider in the United States.Mr. Kulathumani has a technical degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University and an MBA from Purdue University. Murali earned the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute and he is a Certified Scrum Master. He is a published author, consultant, trainer, professional speaker, and has also taught courses as an adjunct professor at Purdue University and the University of Phoenix. Murali has witnessed first-hand the turnarounds that can take place with proper guidance. This motivated him to share his expertise and to formalize this body of knowledge in the form of a book that explains in detail how to effectively manage project portfolios in real-world practice. His goal is to help practitioners and companies that have been struggling to implement portfolio management because there hasn't been enough guidance about which success factors deliver the greatest impact.