Chevron IT group's model and plans for achieving its vision of partnership with the business and customers.
The City of Miami Beach's application development group uses project portfolio management (PPM) software to justify each and every developer to the budget office when the bean counters are looking to cut programmers.
Hosted solutions for project and portfolio management are two of the few hot tickets in town now, as IT groups seek low-cost software that's easy to deploy. Here's a look at the new SaaS offerings and how two companies tapped into the advantages of on-demand project and portfolio management tools.
IT departments scaling back on project work as the economy lurches toward a recession may be tempted to skimp on project management and portfolio management . But think twice: doing so could cost you far more--in projects gone awry and wasted resources.
Too many IT projects are based on bogus cost savings projections rather than business strategy. Here’s how to link project prioritization directly to value.
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Among IT buzzwords, portfolio management is used so commonly that it hardly needs definition. This magazine has been writing about it since 1998. Analysts preach that managing technology investments as one would a financial portfolio is the surest way to maximize value, ensure alignment with the business and minimize risk. Consequently, software vendors are forever pushing products that promise holistic, ...
Smart companies are moving into enterprise portfolio management, a more sophisticated approach to an old process. Retail giant Lowe’s is using EPM to make decisions on everything from staff management to store openings.
Every Thursday, 10 top executives from AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah gather to make sure that current IT and business projects are on track. The result, says San Retna, the travel organization’s chief portfolio officer, is "double 80" performance. This means that by tracking their projects as a portfolio, Retna’s organization can deliver 80 percent of them on ...
Portfolio management provides a new way of looking at IT budget control, and along the way helps manage expectations across the organization.
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