• Project portfolio management - Part 3

  By David Braue | 10 April, 2012 14:17

  Changing market conditions add additional pressure to PPM practitioners: With uncertain economics keeping many companies away from recruiting for now, the resource pool is limited and competition is fierce. In response, PMOs are looking towards increasingly capable PPM platforms that tap into new technologies to maintain their relevance and offer new possibilities.

• Controlling agile development in a project portfolio framework

  By Ian Knox, VP of marketing, Daptiv | 07 December, 2011 09:34

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Project portfolio management - Part 2

  By David Braue | 07 March, 2012 14:48

  Data-driven project portfolio management Project management suffered an identity crisis half a decade ago, when ever-more-empowered developers were learning to work directly with their business patrons as Agile development philosophies encouraged developers to co-ordinate their activities in tight-knit teams that regularly report, evaluate, reassess and re-plan their short-term strategies.

• Project portfolio management - Part 1

  By David Braue | 05 March, 2012 15:58

  It’s never easy to bring two organisations together, but when they’re both huge companies with millions of customers and deeply entrenched cultures, the difficulty level goes up dramatically. Throw in the pressures of Australia’s cutthroat telecommunications industries, and it’s no surprise that Chelsea Love looks back on the consolidation of Vodafone and Three Australia with some relief.

• Using Portfolio Management to Meet Company Goals

  By Chris Potts | 30 March, 2010 06:16

  The fundamental principle of portfolio management is that you first choose the goals for your portfolio and then select the investments that will achieve them. For investments in change, these goals are expressed as the results you want to accomplish (with corresponding measures and milestones) and the shape of the enterprise that the investments must deliver.

• Portfolio Management Back in Style

  By Chris Curran | 09 March, 2010 07:53

  Portfolio management is poised to go "retro." As organizations are preparing to come out of the recession, they are thinking more broadly about the types of investments that will be required to support business growth. As a result, some organizations are revisiting the idea of portfolio management as a way to organize and evaluate.

• Project Portfolio Management: Three dangerous myths

  By Adam Bookman | 23 February, 2010 04:12

  The Standish Group's "CHAOS Summary 2009" report shows a marked decrease in IT project success rates, with 32 per cent of all projects succeeding. It's one thing to know that 68 per cent of all IT projects don't succeed. But it's another to look across your company and realise you have no way of knowing which of your projects might be in the 68 per cent bucket and which have the potential to be in the 32 per cent bucket.

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