Project & Portfolio Summit 2008

Portfolio Management Workshop: Sharing Best Practices This presentation gives guidance in how to consistently get, and keep, your portfolio balance. Technical Infrastructure and commodity applications are certainly important to running the business, but such IT spending should be balanced with opportunities to advance business goals via innovative and enhanced IT services and systems. Too many IT organizations suffer the “death of a thousand cuts”: Letting insatiable demand for application and infrastructure maintenance and support slash away at their resource capacity till little or nothing is left. At a time of tight IT budgets, leadership is needed to preserve high-value projects in the IT portfolio. Key Issues: (1) What best practices should be used to prioritize and manage IT portfolios? (2) How should IT investment risks factor into project portfolio prioritization? (3) What is the appropriate level of application portfolio risk, and how is it determined? Barbara Gomolski Research VP Audrey Apfel VP & Gartner Fellow Matt Light Research Director Trends in IT Spending The question of whether “we are spending the right amount on IT” looms for many organizations. This presentation is based on our extensive primary research on IT spending--a global study that includes more than 1,500 organizations. This session will look at the current trends in IT investment by industry, and reveal best practices in determining the right level of IT investment. Key Issues: (1) What are the trends in IT spending? (2) How can organizations determine if they are spending the right amount of money on IT? Beyond the Business Case: Projects in the Enterprise Architecture Robert Handler Vice President When the going gets tough; the tough come together to leverage synergies. This should be the case with PPM and EA. Unfortunately, in most instances it is not. By identifying the common themes between PPM and EA, both have the opportunity to strengthen each other and do more with less. Failure to rationalize EA and PPM is negligence. In this presentation, we’ll look at the theory, reality, and opportunity behind a collaborative approach. Key Issues: (1) What are the common themes between enterprise architecture and project portfolio management? (2) What are organizations really doing with project portfolio management and enterprise architecture? (3) How can a collaborative approach decrease costs, time to market, workload, and risk?

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