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Know The Difference Between Work Intake Versus Stage-Gate

Tim Washington — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:53:40 +0000

[activecampaign form=9]What is the difference between a work intake process and a Stage-Gate process? This is important to distinguish, especially for newer PMO’s that are setting up portfolio management processes. Work Intake The work intake process refers to the steps of developing a project proposal and bringing it to the governance board (or PMO) for […]

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Improve Portfolio Health By Avoiding Two Portfolio Management Extremes

Tim Washington — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:20:58 +0000

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. […]

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Communicate Portfolio Value

Tim Washington — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:09:47 +0000

I recently finished a project helping a CPG organization within a large retail company implement a product portfolio management process. The company as a whole tends to avoid developing business processes, but this CPG organization recognized the need for greater process discipline around its product pipeline and work in-take. Any endeavor to implement portfolio management can […]

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Effective Project Pipeline Management

Tim Washington — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:49:57 +0000

[activecampaign form=9]Project pipeline management is an important component of project portfolio management (PPM) because it encompasses the work needed to “select the right projects”. Pipeline management involves steps to ensure that an adequate number of project proposals are generated, evaluated, and screened out at various stages of the intake process that meet strategic objectives. There […]

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Effective Pipeline Management: Funnel or Tunnel

Tim Washington — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:17:42 +0000

[activecampaign form=9] Project pipeline management is an important component of project portfolio management (PPM) and involves steps to ensure that an adequate number of projects are being evaluated and screened out at various stages of the intake process to meet strategic objectives. Other factors such as organizational budget and resource capacity also come into play […]

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