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		<title>Portfolio Optimization—Data and Constraints</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 05:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>[activecampaign form=9]In our hyper-accelerated business world, data analysis and data visualization are exceptionally important. In the realm of project portfolio management (PPM) and PMO’s, organizations need robust data analysis to strengthen decision making and improve strategic execution. The key is to have the right processes in place to collect the right data and ensure that [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Improve Portfolio Health By Avoiding Two Portfolio Management Extremes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Two Simple Questions You can measure your general portfolio health with two simple questions: 1) Do you approve all or almost all of your projects? 2) Are you approving so few projects that people would say you are “cutting to the bone”? These are two portfolio management extremes that we will examine in this post. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capacity Management]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Book Review The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook by Jerry Manas is the authoritative source for any organization wanting to improve its resource management practices in the context of portfolio management.  The opening chapter does a great job of providing basic context of resource management and capacity planning and strongly leverages a benchmark study [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Portfolio Review Meetings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>[activecampaign form=9] Portfolio Review Meetings Portfolio review meetings are a great way to review and assess the entire project portfolio with the governance team. Unfortunately in practice, these meetings can be overwhelming, time consuming, and unproductive. There are many ways to conduct a portfolio review meeting, but one of the key questions of the governance [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Tactical or Strategic PPM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity Management]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Fundamentally, portfolio management is about strategic execution and maximizing value to the organization through important project investments. Through various processes, leadership teams can determine how well their project investments align to key strategic goals. Optimization techniques can further enhance the value of the portfolio, ensuring that organizations get the biggest bang for their project buck. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://ppmexecution.com/tactical-or-strategic-ppm/">Tactical or Strategic PPM</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ppmexecution.com">ppmexecution.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Goal of Resource Capacity Management</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity Management]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Resource capacity planning is a hot topic in portfolio management discussions because it is one of the key steps for optimizing the portfolio, but it is also one of the most difficult processes to perform. For most organizations that operate in a multi-project environment, project demand far outweighs resource supply. Overloading the project pipeline puts [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Bubble Charts and Normalization</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Bubble charts are common place in portfolio management processes. Without a designated portfolio management tool, I have designed bubble charts by hand using Excel and PowerPoint. To determine a ‘value’, we use our prioritization value scores and compare that among projects. We have risk scores as part of our prioritization criteria that drive the ‘risk’ [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Can we absorb all the changes?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In the book, Project Portfolio Management: A View from the Management Trenches, one of the questions posed is ‘can we absorb all the changes?’  At first glance I dismissed the question and instead focused on the four components of the portfolio lifecycle. However, after further reading, it became clearer to me that from a portfolio [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The Efficient Frontier Will Get You to the Green</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>According to Merkhofer, “the efficient frontier is the bounding curve obtained when portfolios of possible investments are plotted based on risk and expected return. The efficient frontier shows the investment combinations that produce the highest return for the lowest possible risk. The goal for selecting projects is to pick project portfolios that create the greatest [&#8230;]</p>
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