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Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy Time is money, spend it wisely The Portfolio Management Officer (PMO) and/or Portfolio Manager and/or CIO interested in optimizing their Project Portfolio Management (PPM Processes and Tools). The optimal Project Portfolio Management (PPM) strategy involves the full participation of the CIO. If the member is one of the few with highly evolved PMO models that have conveyed authority to the PMO, then the CIO is less vital to this process. Situation: As Portfolio Manager you’re responsible for communicating portfolio results and future capacity to your steering committee. You need to help them make insightful intake decisions based on accurate information. It is your duty to maintain the frequency of currency of the portfolio. A PPM Strategy is needed to help direct the PMO towards a higher level of capability. Complication The portfolio is not seen as the ‘one source of truth’ when it comes to project reporting. There are multiple conflicting reports circulating around stakeholders and management. You have a commercial tool that is not well-adopted or does not suit the needs of your organization. You need to better understand the needs of the PMO and assess the costs and benefits associated with different tools and approaches to PPM. (Resolution/this research will help you: ) Objectively assess PPM maturity by analyzing the costs and benefits of different levels of PPM capability to find the right level of maturity for your organization. Select and implement the right type of tool for your organization by exploring Info-Tech’s current catalogue of research in the PPM space to find the blueprints that are most applicable to your needs (i.e. a home-grown solution vs. a commercial tool). Document a strategy that will: Establish the portfolio as the ‘one source of truth’ for project reporting by increasing rigor around project status updating and reporting. Improve intake and prioritization by starting only those projects that your organization has the capacity to complete. Implement resource optimized processes and tools by reconciling supply and demand Maintain and apply your portfolio data to optimize and revise your PPM strategy over time. Get senior management approval or buy-in for organizational changes to ensure that there is continuous support for the PPM Solution. If time is money, think of the PMO as the accounting department for time. As the Portfolio Manager, it is your responsibility to ensure that time is spent wisely in pursuit of the goals handed down by the portfolio owner. Use this PPM Strategy to master the art of resource optimization and portfolio throughput. These are mostly all the step-insights so I don’t have a lot to offer here that wouldn’t be repetitive. Email me if this is a problem we can try to work something out.- a lot of the intro/member understanding stuff from the old infographic is still relevant, but we have to take out the whole goals/processes/tools triangle idea because that is no longer our thought model.
