I've got a good deal of experience building AI and analytical solutions for enterprise firms. I have also run many projects as a Big 4 consultant.
I'm looking to solve problems in the PMO & portfolio management space but I'm not sure which are the best pain points or challenges to focus on.
Do you have any recommendations for juicy problems that I can help with? Real challenges that you are currently facing, the kind of things that take you days instead of minutes, or that you are already using manual work-arounds for?
Some problem areas that have come to mind so far: - Content analysis of projects for alignment to strategic goals, and overlap with other projects - Centralising project data across different platforms (Jira, MS Teams, PPM software etc.) - Project retrospective analysis, what went wrong, what didn't? - Aligning/Complementing external vendor work with your internal projects and strategy? I assume that this is a black box quite often?
Any ideas or comments would be tremendously appreciated! Thank you! Saving Changes...
Dear Mr. Ariel, I would like to discuss my case in the organization I work for, as I had to tailor PPM software from scratch to support our PMO and portfolio management. Saving Changes...
Lessons learned is a great opportunity for data science. Since the descriptions are usually free-form text, categorizations are limited and/or inconsistent, and the databases grow rapidly, they often turn into massive amounts of useless data. There's a lot in there that might be useful to someone at some point, but good luck ever finding it when you need it.
Another similar one is identifying chronic issues when they can be described many different ways. Applications such as mapreduce could enable grouping data to find things that are recorded in different formats in different databases but really point to the same issue or type.
I'd love to have better access to big data tools to eliminate combing through massive amounts of data manually hoping to find the proverbial needle in the haystack. Saving Changes...
