PPM Perspectives

The New Stuff Machine

New stuff arrives every day. This new stuff usually results from the determined efforts of a project team. In fact, a steady stream of new stuff comes from an army of project teams. But how often are we prepared for this new stuff? When we are not prepared, does that stop the new stuff from coming? Two letters: N O.

A CIO Perspective on PPM

Interview with the CIO of a major brand - discussing the role of IT; why PPM; why Innotas; who uses PPM and why; results; and lessons learned. Unfortunately the PR department of the company this CIO works for does not allow their employees to be featured in interviews so I had to omit all direct references to them. Other than that, the content of the interview has not been changed.

The quickest path to IT portfolio management

Why IT organizations need portfolio management? Because change happens and adjusting priorities and assessing the impact of changes is critical to the business and cannot be done on a spreadsheet. The question is: how hard is it to put portfolio management in place?

Where do you start with PPM?

Let's get practical. Leaving aside all the big discussions about objectives, alignment, executive sponsorship (don't get me wrong, these ARE important)...where do you start to get PPM done? Is there a pattern of implementation that is the most common across successful PPM implementations?