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This Focused Performance Weblog is a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective. TOC is noted for its applications in Project Management and Multi-Project Management (Critical Chain) and Operations Management (Drum-Buffer-Rope), as well as in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Change Management (TOC Thinking Processes). If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here .
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO my bookshelf , this book is highly recommended to those interested in strategic alignment of projects and programs. It's also related to today's theme to boot.(By the way, if readers find value in this weblog, they can express it in three ways...participate via comments, hire me for workshops or implementations of the concepts discussed here, or, if the books I read and recommend are of interest to you, pick them up from Amazon.com via the aforementioned bookshelf . I've noticed that recently, a lot of the TOC-related books are pretty well discounted.) We now return to our semi-regularly scheduled blog.
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