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Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West
June 2–7, 2013 | Las Vegas, NV
The Value-Adds of Portfolio Management
Andy Jordan PMP is the founder and president of Roffensian Consulting. Andy is a seasoned business professional with experience in many industries on two continents. After a career managing high profile, business critical projects for many organisations Andy moved into leadership of project management offices and built a reputation for building, rescuing and improving this key function. His approach of tailoring processes to the style and ability of the organisation, and focusing on the development of project staff rather than the short sighted approach of meeting project deliverables at all costs has repeatedly shown dramatic results.
I recently spoke with an executive who had implemented a project portfolio management function in their organization and was unsure how to fully leverage the investment. He was pleased with the results that they had seen so far--improvements in resource utilization, more accurate and timely status reporting, better visibility into benefits realization and fewer “rogue” projects--but he was unsure of how to further leverage the function and was looking for more ideas. He was starting to involve PPM in the portfolio selection and approval process, but there was still some resistance coming from department heads who felt that they were the ones that needed to drive the decisions and that portfolio management was a service provider.
It strikes me that this is not an uncommon situation for organizations to find themselves in--they have made the decision to invest in PPM, and they are starting to see some benefits. At the same time, they still have a tendency to view portfolio management as nothing more than high-level project management (especially if it’s IT focused) and as such it is considered to be a service function rather than a strategic support function.
In this article, I want to look at some of the areas that portfolio management can help an organization to manage--business elements that will clearly position PPM as more than just project …
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