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Portfolio Management - Building a foundation

Portfolio Management – Building a foundation

In the last entry we looked at the idea of introducing portfolio management as a concept to the project execution teams within the organization.  While some people will understand and embrace the concept immediately, most people will be wary of the changes and will automatically assume that portfolio management will have a negative impact on them.  This may be unfounded, but it is a natural…

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Successful Portfolio Management - The groundwork

Successful Portfolio Management – The groundwork

In the last entry I introduced the idea that a portfolio manager would need to create an environment for success within the project execution teams before an organization could truly be successful at portfolio management, and I suggested that the portfolio manager would need to do some groundwork first before introducing the concepts.  Without that groundwork there will be no foundation for the…

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PPM in a naïve organization

PPM in a naïve organization

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few entries looking at trends, and I could easily continue to discuss aspects of the Gartner report that has been the focus of the last two entries, but I want to also explore some other areas.  So as a complete shift of pace, I recently received an e-mail from someone who worked for a large, public sector organization that was faced with a significant…

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