Portfolio Planning page

Resources, time and money, are always finite.

The choice on what to spend resources on and what to take resources from is a portfolio planning approach to identify risk, mitigate risk, and maximize resource return on impact.

The VC’s missing formula: human capital discounted cash flow

The devil in the details — the strategic plan

IT failure, too much information in Information Technology

CSI Music Industry — Part 1: The Crime Scene

3 reasons for project failure: change, participation, and risk

What Businesses Can Learn About Innovation … a comment about the numbers

Human capital portfolio management and simple math

Innovation Boston and Budapest, or Dirty Water and the Blue Danube

Risk is an unnecessary (p)art of the deal

Why your business strategy is a project portfolio

Human capital risk, now that’s real risk

Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success, part 1

Sales, finance, and human resources, only room for two at the table

Notes from Boston: the state of US venture capital

Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 1

Venture Capital and the descent into irrelevance

Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success; impact analysis template

Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success, part 2

Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success; stakeholder analysis template

Mergers and acquisitions systems thinking strategies, part 1

Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 2

Discounted risk is human capital risk

Technical ability does little to mitigate risk

Mergers and acquisitions failures are project management failures

Recap: Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success

Mergers and acquisitions systems thinking strategies, part 3

USA Inc. Mary Meeker’s letter to investors on America’s financial statements

Getting it done versus getting it accomplished

An organization intervention is not an organization inquisition

Business strategy failures are project management failures

2 recommendations to manage social media engagement for Project Management Institute — New York

Cited and noted: What Does Fortune 500 Turnover Mean?

Planning the art of possibility

Social metrics that matter to your boss

Fast Start — Is your project doomed?

Fast Start — Queen of the Net interview and State of Internet

How social media trumps marketing — presentation for Project Management Institute

Fast Start — CFOs’ Top Five Priorities

Time’s up for merger and acquisition synergy

3 tips for anyone to design or evaluate training

Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success; communication template

Human capital beta is investment risk beta

Scrum and portfolio strategy as 2 current challenges

Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices by the book

Identifying and Managing Project Risk by the book

The failure of Murphy’s Law

One change management plan is irrational project management

Project Management Around the World — The Hub of the Universe

What does project management mean to me — a project manager’s sermon

In a flash — the project management #pmFlashBlog

Portfolio project management — seeing not perceiving

Inbound campaign project checklist – Excel

Fortune 500 revenue here, won’t get you there

The project management SharePoint

Projects, Personas, and Stakeholders – the slides

User story, no requirement needed

An Agile example of Scrum by design

Being Agile by the book

SAFe journey, a vision of new hope