Demand management
Project Portfolio Management Services: Consultancy, Training, Coaching & Project Development
We can help you implement Project Portfolio Management in your specific situation.
Project Portfolio Management Prerequisites
In order to be successful with Project Portfolio Management a number of prerequisites must be met:
- The will to change;
- A pathfinder project;
- Celebration of successes;
- Proper selection, training and coaching of employees;
- Time to manage Project Portfolio Management as an asset.
Project Portfolio Management Skills, Tasks, Responsibilities, and Competences
We will now give a short overview of the recommended skills and experience in order to be able to successfully complete a portfolio management project.
Discussing and Interpreting of Portfolio Management
To be able to take part in the discussion and interpreting of requirements it is necessary to have an in
depth domain knowledge as well as the ability to think logically and creatively.
The Business Case for Project Portfolio Management
Did you ever realized how many projects fail, and how this occurs? This means that management of your portfolio can lead to a significant improvement of your Return On investment (ROI).
Benefits of Project Portfolio Management
We all know examples of projects that did not meet their planned result. There can be many different reasons for such a failure. Common causes of project breakdowns are:
- The effects of other current projects were not properly taken into account.
- The requirements of other departments were not sufficiently met.
- The delivered specifications were not checked against specific testability.
- The delivered specifications were not bundled into over time deliverable sets by adequate project phasing.
Meta Data and Requirements Management & Analysis
What are the assets of a company? Everyone knows the tangible assets like production equipment. Intangible assets are more difficult. Know-how is considered as such an intangible asset. Meta data is high-level description of a business, or business process. You can use it to manage your business more easily. That implies planning and control, as well as adaptation to changing markets or customers.
Migration of Requirements Versus Greenfield
Every now and then a business manager has to ask himself whether to continue with his current processes, or start allover again. So it is appropriate to provide some information on this subject.
Advantages and Disadvantages Of Greenfield and Migration Strategies
Viable questions with this regard are issues like:
- What are we going to do with our current legacy infrastructure?
- What are we going to do with are current legacy technology?
- And what are going to do with our current employees?
Business Case Requirements Management
Did you ever realized how many projects fail, and how this occurs?
Forrester reports on poor requirements (2006) a survey of the Standish Group's 1994 Chaos Report. Standish found, querying over 352 companies reporting on over 8,000 software projects, that the top three project impairment factors were:
- Lack of user input (12.8% of respondents);
- Incomplete requirements and specifications (12.3%);
- Changing requirements and specifications (11.8).
The Positive ROI Of the BPM Center Of Excellence
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Fri, 27/06/2008 - 12:27Forrester helps companies with the implementation of a Center Of Excellence (COE) for Business Process Management (BPM). Starting the COE is easy, but then comes inevitably the question: What exactly are we going to do first?
SaaS (Software as a Service) Based Tools Lower The Barrier To PPM (Project Portfolio Management) Success
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Thu, 01/05/2008 - 07:43Forrester gives much attention to Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools. They observed that a PPM implementation provides the Corporate Information Officer (CIO) with means to do more for less: A higher productivity and better allocation of the precious budget.
