Project Management Capability & The Enterprise Project Staging Pipeline

The Problematic Project Pipeline Ideas Customers All projects are a high priority We’ll start all projects at the same time We’ll just force the resource to do the projects We’ll do all projects We’re not sure what value we got? Time

University of Wisconsin-Madison Project Management Capability in Your Organization to Support Efficient and Effective Project Management Ad Hoc Informal Project Managers Just put the technical person in charge of projects Intentional Formal Project Managers Let’s get some project management training Standardized Project Management Let’s use a common PM Framework, Metrics, Tools, Templates, and processes planning the control of projects Enterprise Project Portfolio Let’s select the right projects, prioritize them, use constrained resource allocation, stagger project start ups, and assess the actual benefits of implemented deliverables Do continuous improvement of the project management process based on lessons learned University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Enterprise Project Pipeline Copyright 2005 University of Wisconsin-Madison Strategic Project Ideas Shareholder value Customers Cash flow More business Contribution: community, environment Tactical What should we do first? How can we do it? Whencan we do it? What value did we get? Why should we do it? Time