11/16/2007 by Marco Gerussi
Project Portfolio and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) are well established terms used in many industries and heavily by software vendors. Accordingly, there are some standards and a number of software solutions that support the planning and controlling of ideas, initiatives and projects. But do these approaches and tools really meet the actual needs of organizations?
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11/16/2007 by Marco Gerussi
Stimulated by HP’s limiting use of “Portfolio Management” in the new name of its powerful IT Governance solution HP PPM, we already covered the often misinterpreted and ambiguous use of the term “Project Portfolio” in earlier blogs.
Confusion around PPM
Similar vagueness as for “Portfolio Management” can be observed for “Project Portfolio Management”. Software vendors trying [...]
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11/15/2007 by Marco Gerussi
After the acquisition of Mercury HP has changed the product name of Mercury ITG to HP Project Portfolio Management Center, HP PPM. Dieter Steiger criticized this new naming already in his blog “Lifecycle Management – HP BTO makes it happen!”.
Unfortunately, by changing the name of their Software Suite to HP Project and Portfolio Management Center [...]
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11/08/2007 by Marco Gerussi
Enterprise Resource Planning for Information Technology (ERP for IT, ERP4IT) describes the automation of information technology (IT). Therefore ERP4IT focuses on the automated IT itself and not on the automation of business processes by IT.
IT organizations define long-term strategies, integrate them into their business models and offer adequate IT services to the business. Integrated systems [...]
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PPM – Alibi Without Impact Analysis