PPM Perspectives

Corporate PPM – reality or fantasy?

I recently attended an industry conference on PPM in Orlando. At the conference I talked with many large companies who have bought PPM solutions at the “corporate” level and are frustrated. One corporate CIO’s story was something like this:

Five years ago we were sold a “site license” to one of the big PPM vendor’s products. We were promised the grand vision of a single corporate IT dashboard that would bring all of our projects, resources, time, requests, etc all into one place. This would allow us to make the most optimal business decisions about new corporate initiatives, staffing and resource allocation, and duplicate project elimination.

 

SaaS vs. Hosted vs. On-Premise

Everybody is jumping on the SaaS bandwagon these days, often claiming to be SaaS when they are not. I think it's important for buyers to be able to make informed decisions, so I want to shed some light on what the differences are in software delivery models and why you should care. What are the vendor behavior and investment patterns that go with each model?

Sustainable Project Portfolio Management

The best of analytics are worthless if the data is not accurate. Project Portfolio Managements requires a lot of data about what a company is actually doing: projects, resources, budget, demand... So for PPM to be  effective and sustainable we must ensure that the data is there, is reliable, and is kept up to date. Easier said than done!

PPM as a Service

I have expanded my thoughts on an earlier post on Software as a Service for PPM.

Software as a Service (SaaS): As SaaS continues to move from interesting to viable to a competitive threat, PPM solutions are ideally suited to run as SaaS applications, otherwise known as PPM On Demand. There are several reasons why SaaS is so well suited for PPM: rapid deployment; team collaboration; reduced risk of failure; tighter vendor/customer relationships; reduced cost of implementation and support. But perhaps the biggest reason is the rapid innovation cycle. SaaS is at least twice as fast at delivering innovations to customers, and as a result PPM using a SaaS model is evolving rapidly.