Project & Portfolio Summit 2008

The Quest for Talent in a Digital Age The quest for talent is coming to you, and it won’t be for the faint of heart! New assumptions and practices will require more imagination, more commitment and more cutting-edge action than most enterprises have faced before. The success of ambitious projects and programs depends on getting the quest for talent right. Understand what’s happening, how it will affect your results and how you can influence change. Doing nothing is not an option. Diane Morello Research VP & Gartner Fellow IT Success Is All About Business Benefits Lars Mieritz Research VP Research shows that most enterprises have a cultures which emphasise costs and benefits estimation for potential investments, but much less emhpasis is placed on the subsequent delivery of the expected benefits. This can be much improved by focussing more on making the business benefits more meaningful in the pre-project stage through a set of agreed KPIs and metrics that tie back to the business case and it’s stated benefits. Key Issues (1) Why is business benefits articulation, monitoring and communications an increasingly important activity? (2) What are good practices for articulating the business benefits underlying the business case? (3) What are good practices for monitoring the delivery of business benefits and stakeholder communications? Towards 2012: The PMO Emergent What will the IT PMO look like on its 25th birthday? Will it still be an institution that fails approximately 50% of the time but is deemed capable of producing results that make it worth the struggle? Will it have fully grown up and moved into a leadership position in the business as a whole? Will it have been discarded as a good idea that didn’t work out in practice or will it become something completely unique in the emerging hyper-connected future? Since there’s no way to know the future we’ll explore all four alternative scenarios Key issues: (1) How can the PMO as we know it today improve its performance? (2) If the PMO is going to help manage all project work in the company what steps do we need to take now to prepare for the future? (3) How can the PMO in the hyper-connected future serve as a knowledge hub? (4) What are the current trends that are laying the foundation for the demise of the PMO Donna Fitzgerald Research Director Matt Light Research Director

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