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Project Portfolio Management

Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

Working on the right projects at the right time is critical to sustain a competitive advantage, yet many companies struggle with allocating limited resources and assets wisely. Great Standard Consulting Ltd ' project portfolio management (PPM) approach helps you select and manage an optimal portfolio of projects - one that maximizes your company's responsiveness, revenues, and adaptability while keeping the projects aligned with your strategic business goals and objectives.Great Standard helps structure your PPM practices to provide your company with a consistent way to select, prioritize, and manage projects that deliver maximum business value.

What is Portfolio Management (PPM)

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a term used by project managers and project management (PM) organizations to describe methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics. The fundamental objective of PPM is to determine the optimal mix and sequencing of proposed projects to best achieve the organization's overall goals - typically expressed in terms of hard economic measures, business strategy goals, or technical strategy goals - while honoring constraints imposed by management or external real-world factors. Typical attributes of projects being analyzed in a PPM process include each project's total expected cost, consumption of scarce resources (human or otherwise) expected timeline and schedule of investment, expected nature, magnitude and timing of benefits to be realized, and relationship or inter-dependencies with other projects in the portfolio.

Project Portfolio Management Assessment

Great Standard assesses your current project portfolio management processes and, in collaboration with you, identifies the appropriate level of PPM discipline for your organization. We then apply our industry-standard Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model to determine your current PPM capability and identify process gaps between your company’s current state and desired future state.

Portfolio Process Improvement

Results from the assessment are used to define an approach to improve your company's ongoing portfolio management practices. Great Standard partners with you on the development and delivery of the recommended approach and improvement plan, including a cost/benefit analysis for taking the next steps in optimizing your PPM practices that yields better alignment with your business objectives.

Portfolio Improvement Execution

Great Standard provides you with guidance and implementation support to quickly deploy the PPM improvement recommendations. Activities typically include:
  • Establishment or refinement of portfolio governance policies
  • Portfolio and program prioritization and selection facilitation
  • Portfolio and project communication management
  • Portfolio performance management
  • Project Portfolio Management software tool selection and implementation
  • Facilitation of ongoing workshops and training on portfolio governance and management
  • PPM culture change and adoption
  • Baselining and ongoing review of your project portfolio

Helping You Manage Your Project Portfolio

When you integrate dynamic project portfolio management (PPM) practices into your business cycle, you can be assured your company is delivering projects most essential to strategy execution and corporate performance.

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