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PMI – GAC
PMI – GAC accredited. The Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Accreditation Center for Project Management (GAC) has accredited two Capella University degree programs: the MS in Information Technology with a specialization in Project Management, and the BS in Information Technology with a specialization in Project Management.
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Capella University offers several degree programs that specialize in the project management field. Visit one of the links below for more information.
- BS in IT – Project Management.
- BS in Business – Project Management.
- MS in IT – Project Management.
- MBA – Project Management.
- PhD in IT – Project Management.
- PhD in OM – Project Management.
Capella Doctoral Learner Publishes New Book on Project Portfolio Management
I thought some of you might be interested in a new book just published by a Capella University Doctoral Learner entitled: "Project Portfolio Management: A View from the Management Trenches" (Stratton et al, 2009). On October 12 of this year this new business book I co-authored launched into circulation. It has already climbed to the second position in Project Portfolio Management books on Amazon.com and has risen as high as #77 in all project management books sold on Amazon.com.
The subject of Project Portfolio Management is certainly being given a lot of attention at recent project management-oriented conferences and by various software vendors in the space. This book is unusual in that it is written by 10 current and former Project Portfolio Management practioners from a wide range of industries, many at the top of Fortune magazines business and industry rankings. These include: The Boeing Company, Johnson & Johnson, Safeway, and MGM. Also, one of the authors is in the United Kingdom government information technology area.
The book launched at the recent Project Management Institute's (PMI) North American Global Congress attended by more than 2,400 people from 54 countries. More than 100 people attended our panel session on the book's topic. Post-session reviews were among the best at the conference. Each of the authors are members of the Enterprise Portfolio Management Council formed in 2005 as "a nonprofit organization whose goal is to support and accelerate the development of Enterprise Portfolio Management processes, tools, and techniques for the betterment of shareholder value" (EPMC, 2009).
Wiley & Sons, Inc. published this book and it was co-branded by PMI. I wrote five of the 13 chapters in the book (chapters 1, 2, 8, 10 & 13, the beginning of 9 and the "Why We Wrote the Book" preface). 10 of us and two editors collaborated on the book. It is written in two distinctive styles: a story (chapters 2-7 and 13) and in a business style for the balance of the volume.
By going to the following link to the Wiley website, you can download a chapter of the book for free (select "Read Excerpt 2"), which just happens to be one of my chapters (chapter 1).
Michael J. Stratton
References
EPMC. Enterprise Portfolio Management Council Website Retrieved November 25, 2009, from http://www.theepmc.org/
Stratton, M., Menke, M. M., Jenner, S., Tekumalla, S., Miller, D. D., Stabler, M., et al. (2009). Project Portfolio Management: A View from the Management Trenches. Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, USA.
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