Three General Types of Portfolios By Dr.Russell Archibald As indicated in the figure below, a project portfolio consists of the programs and projects supporting a given higher-level strategy. There could be only one overall...
Portfolio Thinking Part II (#2 in the series Portfolio Thinking) By Demian Entrekin I am probing a bit more deeply into a concept I recently introduced called “Portfolio Thinking.” As the term implies, Portfolio...
Resourcing Project Managers By Gina Lijoi Ironically, although resourcing production team members is a significant part of a Project Manager’s role, very little focus is placed on resourcing the Project Managers themselves. Because of...
Why Project Managers Shouldn’t Run Your Portfolio Management Effort By Anand Sanwal “Project Management is about doing projects right. Portfolio Management is about doing the right projects.” Marco Vd Poel, Air France Now let...
Portfolio Thinking Part I (#1 in the series Portfolio Thinking) By Demian Entrekin The more I think about Portfolio Management in general, and Project Portfolio Management more specifically, the more I realize that there...
Project Portfolio Management – Role Play part 2 (The elusive RM) (#2 in the series Project Portfolio Management – Role Play) By Demian Entrekin To recap, “I will probe the range of individual perspectives...
Is Project Management a Commodity? By Rudolf Melik PlanView’s Terry Doerscher wrote an excellent blog post, “Is Project Management Passe?” in response to a Gartner research report published last month. The synopsis of the...
Budgets are a Guess By Demian Entrekin We were down inside the nitty-gritty of a requirements definition. The white board was covered with all the colors we had available. Like most people, we had...
Outside In By Demian Entrekin We have spent a fair amount of time and energy thinking about PPM from the inside out. This is especially true in PPM for IT, or what some folks...
Operations or Alterations? By Demian Entrekin Some organizations have begun to split their portfolio into some fundamental dualistic categories. One such breakdown might be described as Operations versus Alterations. By Operations, we mean “keep...
