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Project Portfolio Management
Andrew Makar
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Feature
Redefining Portfolio Management: It’s All a Matter of Perspective
- by Mark Mullaly, PMP (May 11, 2009)
While the concepts of strategy, portfolio and project are often discussed, the relationship of strategy to project and of portfolio to either concept seems to play out differently in reality than it does on paper.

Portfolio Investing
- by Tom L. Barnett, PMP (May 11, 2009)
How do you pick the right projects? Find out what stocks and projects have in common--and how you can use that to help choose the right portfolio combination for your company.

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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