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

HP IT Transformation

CIO offers insights into HP information technology transformation, where data center consolidation, application architecture rationalization, and project portfolio management are the rule of the day. ...

... "A deep dive into a company's technology infrastructure will help open a technology manager's eyes. Some of the 1,240 IT projects Mott cataloged at HP during a 30-day review weren't slated to be finished for 20 years. " ...

Via Information Week: Incremental IT

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