IT Portfolio Management

Prioritizing IT Security Investments

This document provides guidance on integrating IT security and IT Investment Management processes. Applying funding towards high-priority security investments supports the objective of maintaining appropriate security controls, both at the enterprise-wide and system level, commensurate with levels of risk and data sensitivity. This paper introduces common criteria against which managers can prioritize security activities to ensure that corrective actions are incorporated into the capital planning process to deliver maximum security in a cost-effective manner. (70 Pages)

Management of Portfolios

This best practice brief whitepaper discusses management of portfolios from a new product development perspective – agruing that how you spend your money is more important than how much you spend, it makes the case for portfolio management as the guide.

Project Portfolio Management Framework for Interdependent Projects

Traditionally, management of portfolio frameworks and methodologies have focused on independent projects undertaken in the same funding cycle. This paper discusses a project portfolio management (PPM) framework that includes a model and approach to optimizing a portfolio of interdependent projects.

Project and Portfolio Management Governance

This whitepaper defines project and portfolio management (PPM), governance, and describes a model for portfolio management governance.

7 Steps to Better Project Portfolio Financial Management

This whitepaper describes a seven step process to implement best practice based financial controls for portfolio, program and investment projects.

Project Portfolio Management Maturity Framework

This paper describes a framework for project portfolio management maturity (PPM) or classification – companies/organizations can fall into one of the four categories and consequently have a different PPM strategy to improve their capability.

Wrong From The Start: Why Project Selection Destroys Business Value

This paper discusses the single biggest reason for business value loss: selecting the wrong portfolio of projects. It provides reasons for selecting the wrong project and ways to mitigate this problem.

PPM and Agile Methodology

This white paper discusses the challenges of integrating agile methods into a PPM framework and how to deliver executive visibility into agile projects without disrupting the culture and work practices of an agile team.

Guide to Program Portfolio Management (PPM)

This presentation discusses project portfolio management (PPM) including, what is PPM? what are the benefits in using PPM? what are the challenges in implementing PPM? what are common myths about PPM? how to implement PPM step-by-step? what are some PPM models? what are PPM metrics? what are best practices and lessons learned implementing PPM? <br /><br />Good Discussion!

Case Study: New IT Operating Model

This case study describes a new IT operating model – a new process to manage IT investments – that fosters innovation, improves architecture and paves the way to standardization across the enterprise.