by Michael Hanford | September 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Two weeks ago, Gartner launched its new PPM and IT Governance Summit event, in Orlando Florida. How did this event fare, in a bad economic climate? It was extraordinarily well attended, with some 450 folks interested in the PPM and IT Governance spaces. From a demographics point of view, some 40% (give or take) of [...]
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by Michael Hanford | September 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Many times, in speaking with clients, about the subject of project portfolio management, the discussion turns to the idea of the “value” inherent in one initiative; and, as compared to other initiatives within the portfolio. There is no (or at least very little) disagreement, that a consideration for the approval of new initiatives, and for [...]
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by Michael Hanford | September 8, 2009 | Comments Off
A fairly common discussion item with Gartner clients is how to reduce the contents of the pipeline of projects to a simple form in order to present it to an executive review group. The advice that I give most often, is to present this collection of proposed items in some form of comparison. Fundamentally, we [...]
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by Michael Hanford | July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
A question that we in Gartner’s PPM practice get asked a great deal, about the discipline of portfolio management, goes something like: “I want to get started with portfolio management. Are there just a few, key, points which I can use to focus my approach?” The short answer is: “…yes, with a few qualifiers”. So, [...]
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