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Project Portfolio Management

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ALSO CALLED: Enterprise Project Management, PPM
DEFINITION: Project portfolio management 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. Executives can then regularly review entire portfolios, spread resources appropriately and adjust projects to produce the highest departmental returns.
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Data Center Projects: Project Management
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a framework for project management roles and relationships that is understandable, comprehensive, and adaptable to any size project.
Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009


Optimizing Daily and Routine Maintenance in the Oil & Gas Industry through Project Portfolio Management
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Project portfolio management solutions, such as Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, help oil and gas executives successfully manage their daily and routine maintenance projects, by enabling them to more effectively manage resources, capture best practices and complete projects on-time and within budget.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Managing Project and Portfolio Risk in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Project portfolio management solutions, such as those from Oracle, enable project leaders to successfully manage risk, even in this volatile climate. They also enable companies to identify the best strategies for pursuing existing projects and to identify the most-promising future projects for investment.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Modernizing Your Legacy AS/400 applications
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: With recent AS/400 announcements, companies operating on the AS/400 today have a decision to make—rehost, rewrite, or replace. The key thing to remember when migrating your AS/400 application infrastructure is that it is all about delivering the intended business outcome— generating new services to win new customers.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009


Project Comparisons: AS/400 WebSphere vs. HP/Oracle/INFINITE
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a detail comparison of AS/400 WebSphere and HP/Oracle/INFINITE. Points of contrast include initial cost, ease of upgrade, return on investment, duration and intensity of training, and total cost of investment.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009


Steps Data Architects Should Take to Improve Developer and DBA Collaboration for an Easier Project, a Better Product and a Stronger Team
sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper will take a look at some of the problems that project data and process architects face in working with other IT roles as well as seven easy and inexpensive steps they can take to ensure a collaborative team environment.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009


Removing the Barriers to IT Governance: How On-Demand Software Changes the Game
sponsored by Innotas
WHITE PAPER: IT governance has a well-deserved reputation for being extremely complicated, expensive, and time-consuming. But today’s CEOs and governing boards expect accountability, strategic alignment, cost saving, and contributions to overall growth from IT departments, all of which can be facilitated by IT governance.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009


What Is Formal Project Management and Who Needs It?
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will answer the question of whether or not these standards are necessary in project management by exploring what can happen in the absence of these regulations.
Posted: 28 Aug 2009 | Published: 28 Aug 2009


Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009


What Every IT Manager Needs To Know About Project Management
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams.
Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009


Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios - Improving product portfolio management to optimize your products, services and projects
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The best products to offer are those that provide a high level of value for both you and your customer. Companies with successful product portfolios often utilize a systematic process to effectively guide which projects are selected. This whitepaper explains how you can take advantage of a value-driven approach to product portfolio management.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009


Project Management Office Best Practices, A step-by-step plan to build and improve your PMO
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The best-performing project management offices reduce business risk, optimize resources and contribute to business growth through a portfolio management office, according to Gartner. Read this informative paper from Oracle and take your first step to establishing a PMO or maturing your already established PMO.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009


Does Your Organization Need a Project Management Office?
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: As the number of projects grow, so does the risk of failure as resources get stretched & oversight lags. It becomes increasingly important to define project management processes & develop metrics & best practices for keeping projects on time and within budget. Read this paper to find out if a Project Management Office (PMO) could be your solution.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009


Agile Development: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
sponsored by VersionOne Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents the key characteristics of successful agile managers as they introduce and scale agile methods. Learn what agile managers can do to help their teams and organizations adopt agile development practices to deliver real...
Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 02 Oct 2008


Four Starting Points for Effective Project and Portfolio Management
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Posted: 01 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

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