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.
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.
This whitepaper defines project and portfolio management (PPM), governance, and describes a model for portfolio management governance.
This whitepaper describes a seven step process to implement best practice based financial controls for portfolio, program and investment projects.
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.
This comprehensive business case example illustrates a proven framework for clearly defining organizational issues, analyzing strategic responses, estimating costs and benefits, and managing stakeholder engagement and risk—making it ideal for executives and CIOs to use as a reference or template when planning strategic investments.
This document provides guidance on building, delivering and implementing an it investment aka project or solution. A project or solution must be delivered in accordance with the promise of value or contract established at the business case stage so on-time and on-budget are really the beginning of successful project delivery.
This template provides an easy to use yet in-depth and meaningful checklist of questions to assess an investment proposal – it can be used to guide the development of your own business case as well.
This strategic assessment example provides insights into the process – how to develop and evaluate options for strategic investments – using an integrated lifecycle.
This document describes the strategic assessment of an IT investment which answers the simple question: "is there a need?" This is perhaps the first stage in an investment's lifecycle and most critical because this is where one can either save the day or really make a blunder approving a disaster or rejecting a gem!