If your organization is project-oriented and you typically have several projects underway simultaneously, you probably face some real project management challenges. This is especially true if your projects are complex and involve multiple resources with cross-project conflicts.

Here is my latest book recommendation.

Advanced Multi-Project Management (9781604270808): Gerald I. Kendall, Kathleen M. Austin: Books

The concepts presented in this book are as applicable to IT-related projects as they are to supply chain projects, design-build projects, or engineer-to-order operations. If your firm makes money from managing projects of any kind, you should read this book.

Advanced Multi-Project Management presents the full strategy and detailed tactics needed to correctly accelerate and synchronize multiple projects for successful execution with the same resources, delivering them on time, on budget, and within original scope.

Key Features

• Provides a proven step-by-step approach to achieving vastly improved multi-project management results
• Outlines the 10 essential steps to creating valid project networks and task estimates in a multi-project environment
• Illustrates examples of how to define resource skill sets in a multi-project environment and effective ways to align all projects to prevent constant conflicts over resources
• Reveals software requirements necessary to support small, medium, and large multi-project environments