Driving Project, Program and Portfolio Success: The
Sustainability Wheel by authors Richard Maltzman and David
Shirley is another great resource for project management professionals who are
seeking to drive the concepts of sustainability into their organization’s
project, program, and portfolio processes. Using The Sustainability WheelTM
, they have identified 6 key interrelated components that are critical
for embedding sustainability into to project management process. While the
approach is relevant for individual project managers, it seeks to address the
enterprise level through focusing on the PMO level in order to develop systemic
protocols that impact organization wide projects, programs, and portfolios.
This book is structured to help the reader understand how an
organization is connected to sustainability.
In order to explain these connection points, the authors utilize the
parts of the wheel to connect to the road leading toward a more sustainable
organization. The book contains many case studies and real life examples of
these practices.
Rich and Dave have a
great deal of project management experience and the bridge that they build
between the project management profession and the core concepts of
sustainability-people, planet, and profit-serve as a useful guide to project
management professionals. The authors are winners of the 2011 David I. Cleland
Project Management Literature Award.
It is a must read. Enjoy your sustainability journey!
Kristina Kohl, MBA, PMP
Author of Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and
Portfolio Management Approach
