Project & Portfolio Summit 2008

IT Professional Outlook: Preparing for a Future Unlike the Past Whether you work in an enterprise PMO, in loosely federated teams stretching across geography or in fast-change industries, be prepared for the traditional world of IT expertise, knowledge and skills to change. Some areas of expertise will be bolstered, some will be carved up, some will be redistributed and some will be displaced. Program managers, project leaders, individual contributors -- all stand at the cusp of change. Use Gartner’s IT professional outlook to identify sweet spots, weak spots and opportunities. IT Transformation: What Will the Future Look Like? Barbara Gomolski Research VP Diane Morello Research VP & Gartner Fellow IT organizations are undergoing a transition so dramatic that it could be called a transformation. Global trends, technology evolution and shifts in the way that businesses wish to use IT are driving the changes in IT organizations. This session will examine the implications of these shifts on IT overall, and PMOs, in particular. Key Issues: (1) How are organizational priorities around information technologies evolving? (2) What are potential disruptors to the current evolutionof IT? (3) What actions should IT organizations in general, and PMOs in particular, take now? What You Should Know About Launching a BPM Initiative Business process management (BPM) continues to gain attention from both CEOs and CIOs because of its promise to not only improve operational performance results but also transform and innovate business operations. Because of its increasing importance more and more projects are entirely business process project without a software component. Given this trend what do you need to know as a PMO manager to make sure your PMs can deliver on these projects as easily and as effectively as they do any other type of project. Key Issues: (1) How should users assess organizational readiness for BPM? (2) How should you initiate BPM and what does a plan for getting started look like? (3) What are the critical success factors to long-term success with BPM? A Performance-Based Competency Standard to Assess Project Managers William Duncan Guest Speaker William Rosser Research VP & Gartner Fellow As project management matures, there is increasing demand for a way to assess actual, on the job performance of project managers. In this presentation, we’ll cover an approach developed by the not-for-profit Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS). GAPPS is a membership organization that includes all of the major project management associations as well as companies such as Motorola and Royal Dutch Shell. Key Issues: (1) Performance-based vs. attribute-based competence assessment (2) Classifying projects according to the level of management complexity (3) Developing a reliable assessment approach

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