Welcome to the Best Management Practice Portfolio Library
The Best Management Practice Portfolio Library is a one-stop shop for all official OGC publications including ITIL, PRINCE2, P3O, MSP and M_o_R in print, CD-ROM, eBooks, online subscription, and downloadable PDFs. Multi-user licences are also available to maximise access throughout your organisation.
| ITIL - IT Service Management |
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| ITIL is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. Providing a cohesive set of best practice guidance drawn from the public and private sectors across the world, it has recently undergone a major and important refresh project. | |
| PRINCE2 - Project Management |
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| The PRINCE2 series consists of a range of linked publications covering everything from business benefits to people issues. Along with all other OGC guidance, they share a common vocabulary and way of approaching projects. | |
| P3 Office - P3O |
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| Project, Programme and Portfolio Office (P3O) is the latest guidance from OGC. It will publish Autumn 2008 and will be accompanied by a qualification scheme. | |
| MSP - Programme Management |
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| Large, complex deliveries are often broken down into manageable, inter-related projects. For those managing this overall delivery the principles of programme management are key to delivering on time and within budget. | |
| M_o_R - Risk Management |
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| Aimed at everyone who has ever made an important decision, M_o_R is a robust yet flexible framework that allows organisations to assess risk accurately time and time again. | |
| Publications Coming Soon | |
| This section of the Best Management Practice website provides advance information on forthcoming OGC publications in both print and electronic formats available for advance order. |
New Publications
ITIL concentrates on describing IT Service Management processes, functions and roles but does not describe how to build a Department to run and manage those processes, leaving the question "How can I structure my organisation to most effectively support ITIL Service Management?". This publication, 'Building an ITIL Based Service Management Department', explains in a structured and ...more
- Published: 30 Jun 2008
- ISBN 13: 9780113310968
- £30.00
The Focus on Skills Series Suite explores the various 'soft skills' that are demonstrated by effective project and programme managers, as the day-to-day co-ordination, motivation and communication aspects of project and programme management are very ...more
- Published: 24 Jun 2008
- ISBN 13: 9780113310838
- £60.00
Part of the Focus on Skills Series, this publication, 'Focus on Skills: Communication Skills for Project and Programme Managers', explains the use and importance of communication skills and the structure of how these skills are applied throughout the lifecycle of a project or programme. ...more
- Published: 24 Jun 2008
- ISBN 13: 9780113310821
- £25.00
Part of the Focus on Skills Series, this publication, 'Focus on Skills: Leadership Skills for Project and Programme Managers', explains the use of leadership skills and provides examples of where leadership skills are used throughout the lifecycle of a typical project. The application of the skill set changes as the project or programme progresses through its lifecycle. For example, at the initiation ...more
- Published: 24 Jun 2008
- ISBN 13: 9780113310807
- £25.00
Part of the Focus on Skills Series, this publication, 'Focus on Skills: Team Management Skills for Project and Programme Managers', explains the importance of team management in transitory teams that only exist for the life of a project or programme and how this affects team dynamic. It looks specifically at ...more
- Published: 24 Jun 2008
- ISBN 13: 9780113310814
- £25.00
Written by the original authoring team for the ITIL V3 Project, these Key Element Guides are a handy and portable set of reference guides to the core ITIL Lifecycle publications. They discuss ITIL and its evolution and the need for the Service Lifecycle approach. The titles examine what is meant by best practice framework, how this relates to 'common practice', and about degrees of prescription and ...more
- Published: 31 Mar 2008
- ISBN 13: 9780113310883
- £38.00
Written in simple English, 'For Successful Programme Management: Think MSP', is an affordable and practical guide to MSP. This beginners guide introduces the concepts and principles of MSP and forms part of a series of three introductory PPRM (Programme, Project and Risk Management) publications....more
- Published: 31 Dec 2007
- ISBN 13: 9780113310630
- £15.00
Written in simple English 'For Successful Risk Management: Think M_o_R' is an affordable and practical guide to M_o_R. This beginners guide introduces the concepts and principles of M_o_R and forms part of a series of three introductory PPRM (Programme, Project and Risk Management) publications....more
- Published: 31 Dec 2007
- ISBN 13: 9780113310647
- £15.00
Integrating the MSP and PRINCE2 methods is a challenge that many organisations are facing. When the organisation also operates a portfolio-driven model of change, the challenges are even greater....more
- Published: 31 Dec 2007
- ISBN 13: 9780113310753
- £30.00
This publication, 'Passing the PRINCE2 Examinations', has been updated to take into account the change to the format of the Practitioner Exam, which is now multiple choice instead of an essay format....more
- Published: 30 Nov 2007
- ISBN 13: 9780113310845
- £20.00
