Speaking at the PMI Global Congress 2015 - EMEA
Wednesday, 13.
May 2015, I had the chance to be the speaker for the PMI EMEA congress, held in
London, UK and the subject was:
Understanding the Portfolio Management Body of Knowledge
might help you to better comprehend the goals of a portfolio and the advantage
in selecting the right one(s). When it comes to life, you need to select the
best tool in order to help ensure that those making the decisions, make the
right ones. By attending to this session, you will be able to understand a
three-step process of portfolio analysis through one PPM software.
After going
through basic principles of Portfolio Management, I gave a concrete example of
Portfolio Analysis using Microsoft Project Server 2013.
Let me
share here this experience, by giving you a copy of the white paper I wrote and the slide deck of my presentation.
Also, we
were proposed by PMI to create a selfie video to present our session. That was
my first experience doing this, you can enjoy the decor of my living room
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How Microsoft Project Server calculate Projects priorities
Continuing the series of articles I wrote on Portfolio
Analysis within Microsoft Project Server 2013, and following my previous
article on How Microsoft Project Server calculate business drivers prioritization, this
will (should) help you understanding How Microsoft Project Server calculate projects prioritization.
To highlight this calculation, I will reuse the same
business drivers I have defined previously:
- Expand revenue of the Bobby Brown product line
- Increase product awareness among people between 13 and 18
- Increase the number of members of the VIP club
- Introduction of new premium products
- Reduce employee turn over
- Reduction of support call waiting time
And same set of projects:
- Ambush Marketing Reporting System
- Bamsolcare Service Desk Reorganization
- Colthan Metalhead Adventure Mobile Game
- Corporate Tax Returns Process Alignment With SOX
- Europa Workflow Upgrade to v12
- Kern Stinger Operating System
- Mountain Lake Corp Laptop Deployment
- Travelling Up Europe Marketing Campaign
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Project
What a great pleasure for me to be awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Project! I am really grateful for the recognition. April 1st 2015, will stay a strange April fool’s day for me. When I receive the email from the MVP programme, I did not say anything to any colleagues even to my wife until I receive another email asking me for my shirt size…
I hope to live up to these great names who made me love Microsoft Project: Vincent, Guillaume, Dale, Ben, Cindy, Ellen, Andrew, Prasanna, Gary, Paul, Sam, Bill…
Thank you guys for welcoming me on your family J
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How Microsoft Project Server calculates Business drivers priorities
As part of a
series of articles I wrote on Portfolio Analysis within Microsoft Project
Server 2013, there is another topic I was interested to understand. How
Microsoft Project Server calculate business drivers prioritization.
To highlight
this, I will reuse business drivers I have defined previously for my article on the EfficientFrontier:
- Expand revenue of the Bobby Brown product line
- Increase product awareness among people between 13 and 18
- Increase the number of members of the VIP club
- Introduction of new premium products
- Reduce employee turn over
- Reduction of support call waiting time
There are
within Project Server 2013, two ways to prioritize business drivers:
- A “Calculated” method where an automatic pair comparison of each driver generates relative priority scores (the one we will see here),
- And a “Manual” method where users specify priority values for each driver directly.
Understanding the Efficient Frontier
The
Efficient Frontier is a concept defined by the Nobel Prize winner HarryMarkowitz as part of an article published in 1952 named “Portfolio Selection”. He
stated that an optimal portfolio is the one that delivers the best possible
return for a given level of risk or investment. Applied to portfolio analysis,
the Efficient Frontier is represented as a curve, and plots strategic value (as
a percentage) against Portfolio Cost. It might happen, often when you choose to
force-out some projects, that the portfolio selection scenarios is plotted
under the curve, which mean that the portfolio is not optimal.
My first PMI Swiss Chapter speech about Project Server
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