Rosemary Hossenlopp, founder of Project Management Perspectives is the facilitator of an audio series by key project management professionals on what Business Leaders must understand about accelerating execution of strategy through project work.

She interviews Jim Sloane, a Silicon Valley based OPM3 Certified consultant and PMP, and owner of his consulting and training company, Project Management Explorations.

The project management industry is facing challenges. One of them is showing that we actually deliver benefits to the business

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Rosemary Hossenlopp, founder of Project Management Perspectives is the facilitator of an audio series by key project management professionals on what Business Leaders must understand about accelerating execution of strategy through project work.

She interviews Rashed Iqbal, the Project Manager at Optical Research in Pasadena, CA. Rashed is a PMP, a Ph.D, a Certified Scrum Master and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has over 15 years of experience in high-technology industry.

The project management industry is facing challenges. One of the is showing that we actually deliver benefits to the business. Rashed is here to discuss how Organizational Project Management improves ROI in high-tech and knowledge-based projects. (more…)

Rosemary Hossenlopp, founder of Project Management Perspectives is the facilitator of an audio series by key project management professionals on what Business Leaders must understand about accelerating execution of strategy through projectized work.

She interviews Mike Jenkins, the Managing Director of the Quilogy Healthcare National Practice. Mike is a PMP(r), an MBA, a member of HIMSS and MS-HUG, and has been influencing the vision and development of technology solutions in the healthcare space for a decade.

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How does a project portfolio office go about answering the question of what value does the portfolio provide the organization? There are bunches of obstacles to creating and maintaining a set of projects that can deliver the most benefits to the enterprise.

Project Management Portfolio Office Challenges:

- Chaos in the external environment

- Clashes in the executive suite

- Competency in the portfolio office

Portfolio offices are staffed by senior project management professionals assisting business leaders in steering the funding of the organization to respond to the chaos in the external environment, politics and personalities in the C-suite, and they may not be prepared to understand the details of the content of the projects or the mechanics of portfolio data analysis. Whew.

We can help by understanding business needs, ensuring those needs are included in the business case for portfolio selection, and creating forums for portfolio alignment. Yup – I’ve done these things.

But what is really the answer to surviving a job in a project management portfolio office? I believe that in large part it is a focus on outcome management. This is a phrase coined by my peer in the industry, Russ McDowell. We need to help an organization identify the key measurements that drive the health of the organization. Next, we identify how projects support improvement of those metrics.

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