Portfolio Management A Strategic Approach

Organizational Agility through Project Portfolio Management; Catherine P. Killen, Ph.D.
Portfolio Selection and Termination; Werner G. Meyer, Ph.D.
Corporate Strategy—Converting Thoughts and Concepts into Action; David V. Tennant, PE, PMP, MBA
Establishing a Governance Model for Strategic Portfolio Management; J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, CSM
IT Governance as an Innovation Tool; Dr. Subbu Murthy
Governance and Portfolio Management; Laurence Lecouvre, Ph.D.
Project Portfolio Governance; Jennifer Baker, PfMP MSPM, PgMP, PMP, ITIL, MBB
Business Intelligence Framework for Project Portfolios (BIPPf); Muhammad Ehsan Khan, PhD, PgMP, PMP
Portfolio Management Success; Carl Marnewick Ph.D.
Building the Bridge between Organizational Strategy and Portfolio Management: Alignment and Prioritization; Manuel Vara, PMP, SCPM, Project Portfolio Manager
The Accuracy of Portfolio Risk Estimation; David A . Maynard, BSEE, MBA, PMP
Marketing the Project Portfolio; Rodney Turner, Ph.D. and Lawrence Lecoeuvre, Ph.D.
Strategic Portfolio Management through Effective Communications; Amaury Aubrée-Dauchez, PMP, PgMP
Project Portfolio Management and Communication; Wanda Curlee, DM, PMP, PgMP, PMI-RMP
Addressing Portfolio Information Issues through the Use of Business Social Networks, Stars, and Gatekeepers; Robert Joslin PhD, PMP, PGMP, CENG
When Stakeholders, Goals, and Strategy Conflict; John Wyzalek, PfMP
Portfolio Alignment: A Strategic App roach through the Predicative Value of Outliers’ Data; Ing. Kari Dakakni, M.Sc., CENG
Delivering Organizational Value in the Zone of Uncertainty; Dr. Lynda Bourne, DPM, FACS, FAIM

Biography

Dr. Ginger Levin is a Senior Consultant and Educator in project management. Her specialty areas are portfolio management, program management, the Project Management Office, metrics, and maturity assessments. She is certified as a PMP, PgMP and as an OPM3 Certified Professional. She was the second person in the world to receive the PgMP. As an OPM3 Certified Professional, she has conducted over 25 maturity assessments using the OPM3 Product Suite tool.

In addition, Dr. Levin is an Adjunct Professor for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville where she teaches in its M.S. in Project Management Program, for SKEMA (formerly Esc Lille) University, France, and RMIT in Melbourne, Australia in their doctoral programs in project management.

In consulting, she has served as Project Manager in numerous efforts for Fortune 500 and public sector clients, including Genentech, Cargill, Abbott Vascular, UPS, Citibank, the Food and Drug Administration, General Electric, SAP, EA DS, John Deere, Schreiber Foods, TRW, New York City Transit Authority, the U .S. Joint Forces Command, and the U .S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to her work in consulting, she held positions of increasing responsibility with the U .S. Government, including the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and the General Accounting Office.

Dr. Levin is the editor of Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (2012), author of Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers, published in 2010. She is the co-author of Program Management Complexity: A Competency Model (2011), Implementing Program Management: Forms and Templates Aligned with the Standard for Program Management Second Edition (2008), Project Portfolio Management, Metrics for Project Management, Achieving Project Management Success with Virtual Teams, Advanced Project