Here are a list of recommended texts from OGC. All are available for purchase by completing this form.
Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (PRINCE2 Manual 2009), ISBN 9780113310593 - A$149.50
This publication provides a universally applicable project management method – the principles, processes and techniques that enable individuals and organisations to successfully deliver their projects within time, cost and quality constraints.
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP Guide) 2007 Edition, ISBN 9780113310401 - A$99.95
Combining rigour and flexibility, MSP helps all organisations – public sector and private, large and small – achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again. With change a pressing reality for all organisations, successful programme management has never been more vital to success. Organisations must respond as new processes or services are introduced, supplier relationships alter and structures adapt to market forces or legislation.
Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices: P3O Book, ISBN 9780113311248 - A$99.95
This new core guidance from OGC describes why, when and how to use portfolio, programme and project Offices (P3O) models. It describes what a P3O is, defining the two key types of P3O, and goes on to answer the question posed by Senior Management: “Why have P3Os and what value-add do they bring to the organisation?” It also includes business cases, funding models for set-up and ongoing costs and performance measures.
The publication looks at the lifecycle of a P3O and describes the use of a project based approach to scoping and setting up a suitable P3O model within an organisation. It also includes checklists for start-up, continuous improvement, and reviving and closing down temporary offices and looks at the functions and services carried out within a P3O, and the techniques and tools used to facilitate this.
Management of Risk: Guidance for Practitioners, ISBN 9780113312740 - A$99.95
Every organisation must find the right balance between opportunities and threats in managing its risks. M_o_R takes a best practice approach, which offers a structured and effective framework for risk management. Its aim is to help organisations to achieve their objectives by first identifying the risks, and then choosing the right response to the threats and opportunities that are created by uncertainty. This publication is invaluable across all organisational activities from strategic, programme, project or operational perspectives.
Management of Portfolios, ISBN 9780113312948 - A$119.95
This title is for practitioners who need guidance to help them set up and run portfolio management. It describes portfolio management in its strategic and organizational context and provides guidance on: the principles of effective Portfolio Management; the key practices, including examples of how they have been applied in practice; and how to implement portfolio management and sustain progress.
Management of Value , ISBN 9780113312764 - A$119.95
This core guidance from OGC is for the people who are charged with maximizing the value of resources invested to get the best financial and non-financial benefits from programmes and projects. It is aimed at those with responsibility for directing programmes and projects as well as managing them through to delivery. While recognising the subjective nature of value, the guidance includes a workable definition together with a set of principles and themes that underpin the concepts of value management. These are complemented by description of the processes and techniques that provide a practical approach to getting results from managing value.
DIRECTING Successful Projects with PRINCE2 2009, ISBN 9780113310609 - A$99.95
This publication has been designed to be a role specific handbook for senior managers and project board members, which describes how to oversee projects being managed using PRINCE2.
The guide sets PRINCE2 in the wider context of project management (but still non-specific for industry sector) and describes or cross-references techniques which support the PRINCE2 method.
The Executive Guide to Directing Projects: within a Prince2 and MSP Environment, ISBN: 9780113312214 - A$49.95
The Executive Guide is an accessible summary of the full guidance in a portable format suitable for quick reference or a quick read – a “ten minute guide” for the busy project board member. It introduces the additional considerations that project boards need to take into account if the project is being run within a programme and/or portfolio managed governance structure.
The Executive Guide is aimed at experienced senior managers and project board members who are already familiar with PRINCE2, and therefore do not require frequent reference to the full guidance.
PRINCE2 Pocketbook - 2009 Edition, ISBN: 9780113311910 - A$9.95
‘PRINCE2 Pocketbook – 2009 Edition’ is in line with the new PRINCE2 2009 ‘Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2’ and has been produced as a reference tool for the trained PRINCE2 Practitioner who is assumed to be familiar with the method and the terminology. This publication should be used in conjunction with ‘Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2’ which contains full details of the method.
MSP Pocketbook, ISBN: 9780113310654 - A$9.95
A quick reference guide for using MSP effectively. Designed to work along Managing Successful Programmes.
Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices Pocketbook, ISBN: 9780113311279 - A$9.95
A quick reference guide for using P3O effectively, designed to be used alongside the core P3O guidance.
ISBN: 9780113312986 - A$9.95, Management of Risk - Guidance for Practitioners 3rd Edition - Pocketbook
This pocketbook provides a summary view of the detailed practitioner guidance and is a valuable introduction to a risk management approach that can be used across all organisational activities from strategic, programme, project or operational perspectives.
An Executive Guide to Portfolio Management, ISBN: 9780113312603 - A$24.95
An Executive Guide to Portfolio Management' is about Portfolio Management and is specifically aimed at senior executives – the subject is discussed from a strategic perspective. This guide will help you understand how Portfolio Management can assist in addressing the challenges you and an organization face and how to respond to the demands for more customer focused service.
An Executive Guide to Value Management, ISBN: 9780113312795 - A$24.95
The guide provides clear and unambiguous guidance to value management.
It is the first cross-sector and universally-applicable guidance on how to maximise value in a way that takes account of an organisations' priorities, differing stakeholder needs and, at the same time, the use of resources as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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