PPM Perspectives

Getting Started

It's one thing to implement a PPM solution for organizations that have already realized that they want and need PPM.  These organizations have discovered that visibility into the project portfolio is essential to performance of the organization.  They can see it.  They can measure it.  They can manage it.  For organizations that have already crossed the line of "why I need PPM", the issues become tactical: speed, timing, scope and process.  But that's not the whole story.

How PPM helps IT Governance Initiatives

IT governance is about producing value for the business and mitigating risk. Both are key aspects of PPM.

Q: Does implementing PPM satisfy all the requirements of IT governance?   A: No.

Q: Should PPM be an integral part of your IT governance strategy?   A: Yes!

New White Paper

I don't usually know exactly what I'm going to write in a white paper.  I usually have a preliminary hypothesis and then I try to focus on The Question I'm asking.  It is more of a discovery process than a proof.  Here is section 4 of the white paper in progress.

How Large?

How large does my Organization have to be before I should have a Project Management Office (PMO) and follow Project Portfolio Management (PPM) processes?

I was thinking about this question a few days ago in the context of Innotas the company. We aren’t a large company (yet!) and some people might say that we have only a few initiatives and manageable staff size and therefore there is no need for a PMO or PPM processes. We all know what the company is working on and why. We all understand the decision criteria used to determine if we’re going to take on a project or not, and we all understand the tradeoffs of those decisions.