PPM Solutions: January 2009

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PPM Solutions: January 2009
Projects@Work (January 26, 2009)

A wide variety of technology solutions are available to help organizations of all sizes and industries adopt, customize and refine their project portfolio management efforts. Here's a roundup of releases and upgrades announced in the past few months.

Heading into 2009, most organizations understand that project portfolio management (PPM) is about aligning projects with business strategy to improve performance and value. But that general definition belies the many difficult challenges of implementing PPM and realizing its potential benefits. Both hard and anecdotal evidence suggests that the promise of PPM too often falls far short of expectations. The successful practice of PPM depends on a multitude of factors, including an organization’s grip on its business goals, resources and culture.

There is no silver bullet for PPM success, but there are tools that can help executives, project leaders, teams and stakeholders constructively improve the processes by which they select, execute and collaborate on projects, from top to bottom and across the enterprise. To that end, there are a wide variety of technology solutions to help organizations of all sizes and industries launch, customize and refine their PPM efforts.

PPM technology and service providers are continually updating their offerings or introducing new solutions, and PPM Executive will provide timely summaries as they do, including reviews and analyst evaluations when available.

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