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Project Portfolio Management: Leading The Coporate Vision by Shan Rajegopal, Philip McGuin and James WallerProject Portfolio Management (PPM) is about ensuring you have the correct mix of projects that are focused on taking the business where it has decided to go. It is about being able to respond quickly to changes in the environment, enabling the business to set the direction and then create a series of steps to get there. Many companies and organisations are faced with a portfolio of projects that need to be managed effectively and successfully.

This new book by leading practitioners introduces a framework and a range of tools to enable the project portfolio to be strategically managed including establishing guidelines, prioritising, aligning projects with strategy, balancing the portfolio and sustaining a change culture through continuous improvement.

• Authors: Shan Rajegopal, Philip McGuin and James Waller
• ISBN: 0230507166
• Format: Trade Book
• Price: £25.00
• Pub. Date: 15/03/2007
• Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan

In December 2006 we will be starting a 4 part serialisation of the new book. Readers will be give an insight into the following:

• Understanding Project Portfolio Management
• Preparing and Organise for Project Portfolio Management
• Executing Project Portfolio Management
• Embedding the Project Portfolio Management Capability

Atlantic Global Plc in partnership with Berkshire Consultancy Limted is holding a series Master Classes throughout January, February, March, April, May and June 2007. The PPM master class training courses combines classroom instruction with hands-on exercises designed to teach participants on how to deploy, execute and lead the Project Portfolio Management process.The Half Day Master Class is absolutely FREE OF CHARGE to attend. It is designed to provide participants with an introduction into how to sell and deploy a Project Portfolio Management process.You will learn

• What project portfolio management is and recognise the areas of pain
• How to prepare and organise the company to accept a project portfolio management process
• How to execute the project portfolio management as a change project
• How to embed and sustain the project portfolio management capability Successful techniques through group exercises

Click Here for Project Portolio Management Master Class

Atlantic Global will be exhibiting at the 2006 PPM Project & Portfolio Management Europe in Geneva, Switzerland - 29th Nov to 1st Dec. This event brings executive-level IT and corporate Decision-Makers together to discuss PPM product and service solutions, and hear presentations led by Gartner Analysts and other industry experts.During the three-day event, the focus will be on strategic business interaction with Service Provider like Atlantic Global via Private Boardroom Appointments, the insight and expertise of industry-leading Gartner analysts, and a host of networking events.

Driving project performance is not only about “doing projects right” it is about “doing the right projects”.  Yet, doing the right projects is more than simply individual project selection, rather it is about how the organisation manages the entire mix of the business’s portfolio of projects.  It is about achieving a level of visibility over project delivery that enables the business to make calculated Go/Kill decisions and ensure rational, accurate alignment with the business.  It is ultimately about how the business sees projects as investments within the short, mediumand long term.

PPM can therefore be defined as the “…management of the project portfolio so as to maximise the contribution of projects to the overall welfare and success of the enterprise. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is the management of that collection of projects and programmes in which a company invests to implement its strategy, for example asset programmes, improvement initiatives and strategic change work streams among others.  A PPM process can utilise various techniques to provide tangible results for your business, ensuring that project investments contribute directly to realising your corporate goals.”

PPM is a paradigm shift in thinking, it’s successful implementation is driven from the top-down spear headed by executive and senior management sponsorship and responsibility.  PPM attempts to straddle the gap between the projects themselves, the management process and their accountability to the business.  PPM is the bridging that brings together the strategic and operational.

PPM challenges the narrow “pure play project-by-project orientated focus to planning” and draws attention to the broader more integrated approach, which subjects projects to wider organisational considerations and executive responsibility. 

Simply put, PPM looks to empower the business not just the project process.  It helps business establish a clear line of sight from the top-level pan-initiative view right down to the individual project layer.  From the strategic view point, it allows stakeholders, business leaders and executives to see clearly and understand how effective their strategies are and if necessary which programmes and projects to review.  From the operational view point PPM empowers programme, resource and projects managers with tools, support and necessary corporate accountability to execute project delivery.