by Donna Fitzgerald | June 30, 2010 | 5 Comments
My first research note (in a planned series) on the Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) was published a couple of weeks ago. See The Enterprise PMO: An Emerging Force in Strategy Realization http://www.gartner.com/resId=1382324 (Obviously this is free to clients and will have a fee associated with it for non-clients) I’ll be discussing some of the [...]
Category: Agile PMO Project Portfolio Managemnet Strategic Planning Tags: EPMO, Strategic Tactics
by Donna Fitzgerald | March 17, 2010 | Comments Off
I got an email this morning from my friend and colleague Stewart Buchanan that was simply too good not to share. We’ve been emailing each other around some of the finer nuances of portfolio management and he wrote: Clients can be in such a hurry to add new projects to the portfolio that they fail [...]
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Category: PMO Project Portfolio Managemnet Tags: Contingency Funds
by Donna Fitzgerald | December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
How do we know what we know? How do we take our experience and our on-the-spot judgments and translate them from our own internal sense of knowing (tacit knowledge) into something concrete we can share with others (explicit knowledge). A friend asked me for some advice on a subject I’m generally regarded as being [...]
Category: PMO Project Portfolio Managemnet Tags: Knowledge Management, Project Portfolio Management, Storytelling
by Donna Fitzgerald | November 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Several months ago the Wall Street Journal and I were having what amounted to be a discussion on the elasticity of demand based on pricing. They billed my credit card for a full priced renewal and I called and cancelled. They then called me about once a month and tried to get me to renew [...]
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by Donna Fitzgerald | June 5, 2009 | 5 Comments
I just read something that said “avoid subjective prioritization” of the project portfolio beyond the triage of the initial project request. The problem with this statement is that it implies something that actually isn’t true. All project portfolio prioritization is subjective. It can be transparent. It can be the result of a consensus but a [...]
Category: PMO Project Portfolio Managemnet Tags: Project Portfolio Management
