Project Portfolio Management

High performing IT organizations cancel their fishing trips and put their gym sessions on-hold to ensure that the kids get home on time. Balance your priorities with project portfolio management. ...

... "PPM is something we do every day when we decide to go to work rather than fishing or pick up our children from daycare rather than heading to the gym first. " ...

Via Network Computing: Project Management

Managing Project Portfolio

Reference for tips on getting started in project portfolio management from AMR Research and other practitioners. It will take some energy to define and apply portfolio categories, value definitions, and status codes to properly instrument your organizations portfolio view. ...

... "Project portfolio management involves a number of activities, the most basic of which is to get everything into one place. That helicopter view onto a number of projects is a major step forward for a program manager, IT exec or CIO ... " ...

Via ZDNet: IT Project Failures

Project Portfolio Management PPM Tools Market Leadership Analysis

CA's PPM software (previously Niku) makes strong showing in Forrester's recent project portfolio management software market analysis. ...

... "CA is moving up in its leadership position. Priced and built to perform as well in medium-sized shops as in large installations wrote Lewis Cardin, vice president at Forrester and the report's author. He added, CA's Clarity is a strong performer across the majority of important PPM offerings. " ...

Via CA: CA Named Leader in PPM Market

Portfolio Management Software Offered in SaaS Model

HP moves to offer PPM software in a SaaS model, like salesforce dot com. If the pricing is competitive, this is a nice way to buy by the drink and show value of project portfolio management before expanding to a large enterprise deployment. ...

... "Project and Portfolio Management Center – Standardizes, manages and captures the execution of project and operational activities, and provides critical information to assist real-time decision making. " ...

Via HP: HP Strategy to Expand Its Software-as-a-Service Offering