Category Archives: Portfolio Management

When Chickens Become Pigs…or…Why Does It All Have To Be So Complicated?

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

There was a great comment from Mike Kaplan on my last blog post about integrating agile project methodologies into a project portfolio: “I am struggling to see the overall value, or benefit for the investment, especially considering the effort required … Continue reading →

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Integrating Agile into Your Portfolio Management Processes (Part 2)

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

In that last post, I talked briefly about how to perform a functional analysis as a prelude to integrating agile project methodologies into a mixed PPM environment.  In this post, I’d like take a closer look at some of the … Continue reading →

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Integrating Agile into Your Portfolio Management Processes (Part 1)

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

Enjoying one of those rare confluences where my blogging, professional and speaking lives all converge at the same moment into the same topic.  As it looks like I’ll be presenting this at the upcoming Houston PMI blowout, I figured I’d … Continue reading →

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TFS Integration and the Increasingly Misnamed Microsoft Project Server

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

The release this past week of the updated TFS 2012 – Project Server 2013 demo image underscored a point that we’ve been making in discussions with implementing organizations of late: Project Server is really no longer the appropriate name for … Continue reading →

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The Consultant of La Mancha

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

One of my parenting lessons learned is to never take your kids to a performance of Spider Man: Turn off The Dark in New York.  After that, any show that doesn’t have a guy in colorful leotards swing out over … Continue reading →

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Like Wine and Cheese (Part 2)

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

In yesterday’s post, I proposed a model for assessing work and assigning an appropriate lifecycle.  That’s great in theory, and for those folks who deliver framework workshops as it allows us to spend a couple more hours diagramming stuff on … Continue reading →

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It’s Like Wine and Cheese (Part 1)

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

That last post, Your Schedule is Totally Mental, prompted long time reader and occasional drinking buddy Magnus to chime in with two excellent questions: Do you also think that all schedules can or should follow the *same* (arcane or standardized, … Continue reading →

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The Schedule is the Thing

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Organizations are often unable or unwilling to estimate project effort or cost.  I get it.  Detailed estimating is hard and requires work.  A lot of times, our project has already been approved to enter execution – and we had to … Continue reading →

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UMT in the News

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

Don’t know if you saw this, but on behalf of everyone at UMT, I am proud to announce that we’ve placed in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analytics. Curious what that might actually mean to you?  Check out … Continue reading →

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EPM Bingo, or A Structured Approach to PPM Analysis

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

One of my colleagues used to explain to me that there are three kinds of people that attend any meeting: There are those who feel an emotional need to share how they’re feeling about the topic. There are those who … Continue reading →

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