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As the year quickly draws to an end, I wanted to reflect on a few thoughts around Project & Portfolio Management over the last year. The economy had an impact on almost every organization worldwide. Departmental budgets were cut, projects were delayed and resources were downsized. The down economy...

At the end of the year - and in this case the end of a decade - I thought it made sense to look back at what has been and try and predict what may be. Many already have named 2010 the year of Cloud Computing, so I decided to call on Google Trends to put this into a little perspective. Below you see the...

Today, CA announced a partnership with salesforce.com to create CA Agile Planner, a management solution in the cloud for agile developers. The new solution from CA will better enable users to simultaneously manage multiple development methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). Scheduled...

CA is launching a new, exciting and fun interactive online game. In PPM Hero, the game , projects leaders run around an office trying to solve problems (sounds familiar?). The fun part is that you can get additional funding for your project by correctly answering various PPM questions. While loading...

Learn the Steps or Feel the Beat? Everyone who ever attended event night at one of the major software vendors’ user conferences knows, “Real IT people don’t dance” (or should I say “IT people don’t really dance”). Yet I plan to use a dance analogy when discussing the various best practice frameworks...

A service portfolio approach to Cost Management This week a major European IT magazine launched Smart IT, an expert forum dedicated to how smarter IT can help reduce enterprise cost, So not just IT cost itself. It is only fitting that the first case discussed here was a retail case, because there is...

The IDC MarketScape report for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2009 Vendor Analysis was recently published. This report is different from other analyst reports on IT PPM in that it divides the IT PPM market into two distinct categories, one for On Premise (or Enterprise) and the other dedicated...

ISACA recently completed a global study to gauge how today's IT organizations are measuring and communicating the value of their IT investments. The results aren't pretty: "... fewer than half have a shared understanding of value across the enterprise, and two-thirds fail to fully measure...

I just read a direct and insightful article by Bob Lewis at InfoWorld article , in which he reminds us that if you want more time to do the important projects, kill the ones that are already dead. Bob provides some examples of the kinds of projects that need to be put out of their misery. Some of the...

Monday is the deadline for my draft "Extending PPM Processes" presentation I am making in Belgium in October, so I racked my brain thinking of what the most useful processes an organisation might extend PPM into. The following image shows the six I could easily associate customers to: One of...