1. Project Management Capability &
The Enterprise Project Staging Pipeline

2. 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

3. 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

4. The Enterprise Project Pipeline
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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