Program and Project Portfolio Managers

Make smart priority decisions on your organization’s change initiatives

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As a Program or Project Portfolio Manager of your organization, you need to allocate budgets and plan change initiatives that advance overarching business goals. Everyone wants to get their plans funded but it’s your duty to decide what gets prioritized. You also need to discover ways to plan all these initiatives in a coherent way while taking various dependencies into account.

Challenges to program and project portfolio management

Often, organizations deal with hundreds of asset and change initiatives. If you don’t have all the facts to support a specific project, portfolio management often becomes “decibel-driven”: those with the loudest voices get their projects approved. So, as a project portfolio manager, how can you improve decision-making? By creating a clear line of sight from initiatives to the effects they have on: • Generating new business • Improving efficiency • Reducing costs • Ensuring regulatory compliance That’s where BiZZdesign can help.

Evaluate and prioritize your initiatives

BiZZdesign’s portfolio management function can help you organize your change initiatives in clear sets. You can define various metrics to evaluate and prioritize your initiatives based on factors such as benefits, cost and risk. Moreover, the platform integrates with enterprise architecture and other disciplines to provide you with full traceability from these initiatives to the results they plan to realize. This gives you a clear picture of the business impact and dependencies of these initiatives, which is crucial in deciding on priorities and planning.

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