Project Portfolio Management


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Project Portfolio Management
Andrew Makar
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Feature
Baby Steps
- by Craig Curran-Morton (June 14, 2010)
Why has Project Portfolio Management struggled to be adopted in organizations? While part of the problem lies with the vendor overselling the product, the bulk of the issue stems from our collective failure to educate ourselves on PPM--and understand how we should adopt it.

Nightmare on Portfolio Street
- by Tom L. Barnett, PMP (June 14, 2010)
"One, two...the portfolio's coming for you! Three, four, better lock your door!" For a company to be successful, it needs to have a high-performance project portfolio. If it misses the mark, everyone is relegated to the B-movie horror of High Spending and Low (or No) Return for their Money.

Wikis
Project Portfolio Management
Demand Management
Enterprise Portfolio Management
Channels

EPMC
Business Case Development
Metrics (Non-Financial)
Project Selection
Show Me the Money!
Strategery
Strategic Direction
What Do I Do?
Working With Senior Management

Discussions
What Don't I Know?
Here's a catch-all section to respond to general questions and issues that you might have that don't fall into the other Portfolio Management channel. Drop a line here and get advice from the expert--or your fellow ganttheads.

Deliverables

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Sample Project: Effort-Based Project Forecasting
Use this plan in conjunction with the effort-based project forecasting article and workbook.

Effort-Based Project Forecasting Workbook ( Evaluation Form Report / Report - Template )
The attached workbook is useful for these many projects out there where no costing data can be used--or is not available--so the classic Earned Value Technique cannot be applied. It provides not only a progress tracking mechanism but also effort based project forecasting based on the above consideration.

ezEVA Template ( Evaluation Form Report / Report - Template )
The ezEVA template is a historical earned value tracking tool used to measure current progress and forecast future project performance. Use this in tandem with our EVA series of articles.

EVA Example Project Plan
Get help in calculating your project's earned value using this project plan.

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