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Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy

Drive IT project throughput by throttling resource capacity.

The Situation

  • As an IT leader, you oversee a project environment in which the organizational demand for new products, services, and enhancements far outweighs IT’s resource capacity to adequately deliver on everything.
  • As a result, project throughput suffers. IT starts a lot of projects, but has constant difficulties delivering the bulk of them on time, on budget, in scope, and of high quality. What’s more, many of the projects that consume IT’s time are of questionable value to the business.
  • You need a project portfolio management (PPM) strategy to help bring order to IT’s project activity. With the right PPM strategy, you can ensure that you’re driving the throughput of the best projects and maximizing stakeholder satisfaction with IT.

Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy visualization
  • Manage the portfolio as more than just the sum of its parts. Create a coherent strategy to maximize the sum of values that projects deliver as a whole – as a project portfolio, rather than a collection of individual projects.
  • Get to value early. Info-Tech’s methodology tackles one of PPM’s most pressing challenges upfront by helping you to articulate a strategy and get executive buy-in for it before you define your process goals. When senior management understands why a PPM strategy is necessary and of value to them, the path to implementation is much more stable.
  • Create PPM processes you can sustain. Translate your PPM strategy into specific, tangible near-term and long-term goals, which are realized through a suite of project portfolio management processes tailored to your organization and its culture.

Blueprint Contents

  • Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy – Executive Brief
  • Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy – Phases 1-3
  • Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy – Phase 1: Get Executive Buy-In for Your PPM Strategy
  • PPM High-Level Supply-Demand Calculator
  • PPM Strategic Plan Template
  • PPM Strategy-Process Goals Translation Matrix Template
  • Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy – Phase 2: Align PPM Processes to Your Strategic Goals
  • PPM Strategy Development Tool
  • Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy – Phase 3: Complete Your PPM Strategic Plan
  • Project Portfolio Analyst / PMO Analyst

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Elvis provided outstanding experience in the start up of a PMO for a mid-sized business.
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Client Vancouver Foundation
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Elvis was very engaged and provided nice guidance to help building IT PMO strategy that's suited for my organization. Appreciate his flexibility an...
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Our Facilitator Bill Holiday was the best. He did a fantastic job relating the workshop objectives back to our business.
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Client Tyler Technologies, Inc.
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This initiative is put on hold, but only because as a client I was not able to dedicate the time that Elvis needed to make this a success. His resp...
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Long and Jason were able to guide us on our new path to get a PPM and project management strategy into place. With the tools provided, we will be a...
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