Project Portfolio Management Summit for Executives
Optimize project results by selecting and allocating resources to the right projects—if your company believes in the power of project management, you can’t afford to miss this summit!
A competitive advantage for organizations now is doing the right projects and making sure that there are resources to complete those projects. Project portfolio management (PPM) is a set of business practices and technology that allows organizations to manage projects as a strategic portfolio, ensuring the alignment of projects with organizational objectives. You will learn about using appropriate project selection criteria, preventing “problem projects” from making it into the opportunity pipeline, determining when to terminate an existing project, and using technology to optimize your portfolio and gain real-time visibility.
PPM organizes a series of projects into a single portfolio consisting of reports that capture project objectives, costs, timelines, accomplishments, resources, risks and other critical factors and organizes them in an easily digestible form. Executives can then regularly review entire portfolios, see where money is spent, why projects are or are not necessary, spread resources appropriately and keep tabs on progress.
If your organization is not using PPM or is just starting to use it, then you will receive value from attending this summit. You will learn how some of the top performing organizations are using PPM, as well as the lessons they learned in implementing PPM.
Who should attend
- Executives/directors/managers who are involved with project management and want more completed projects to produce positive business results
- Executives and managers who function as project sponsors
- Project portfolio directors, program managers and PMO directors
- Experienced project managers who would like to participate in improving the overall project management process within their organizations
Topics include:
- Steps toward establishing a project portfolio process in your organization
- How to appropriate project selection criteria
- Connecting your business strategy to the project selection criteria
- Allocating resources optimally
- Eliminating project redundancies
- Preventing “problem projects” from making it into the opportunity pipeline
- Determining when to terminate an existing project
- Using technology to optimize your portfolio and gain real-time visibility
- Reducing costs on projects and increasing benefits from timely project deliverables
Schedule
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session
Faculty
Tom Westcott
Tom Westcott is founder and CEO of Project Solutions Group. He has over 17 years of teaching and consulting experience in project management, and has delivered training to thousands of professionals throughout the U.S. and the world. Tom was previously a manager of project management development for Cambridge Technology Partners, where he developed and managed a six-year development seminar for Cambridge’s project managers.
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