The PPM Activity Cycle: Optimizing Portfolio Costs, Risks & Returns

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The PPM Activity Cycle: Optimizing Portfolio Costs, Risks & Returns


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Contributed by: Gartner PPM Summit
This presentation gives guidance in how to consistently get, and keep, your portfolio balance. Technical Infrastructure and commodity applications are certainly important to running the business, but such IT spending should be balanced with opportunities to advance business goals via innovative and enhanced IT services and systems. Too many IT organizations suffer the "death of a thousand cuts": Letting insatiable demand for application and infrastructure maintenance and support slash away at their resource capacity till little or nothing is left. At a time of tight IT budgets, leadership is needed to preserve high-value projects in the IT portfolio.

Key Issues:
  • What best practices should be used to prioritize and manage IT portfolios?
  • How should IT investment risks factor into project portfolio prioritization?
  • What is the appropriate level of application portfolio risk, and how is it determined?



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