Business Professionals

You are among the operational stewards of the company.  You execute the daily business processes to ensure that the transactions of the business are conducted appropriately.  You also know:

• how to address the exceptions to processes when they occur
• the ways in which “Process Maps” don’t totally capture the nuances of what you do on a daily basis
• the problems you contend with because the systems you use every day and the data contained in those systems are not as good as they should be.

In short, when the discussion starts about how work really gets done and how to do it better, you need to be in the room.  All too often, you’ve seen that when you’re not included in the discussion, bad things happen.

With resources being cut back and greater productivity expected, you have a hard enough time just keeping up with your regular job, let alone participating in requirements gathering meetings or User Acceptance Testing sessions for new project initiatives.  Project Portfolio Excellence provides the tools, the strategy, and the methodology to balance the demands on your time with your capacity, allowing you to concentrate on the projects that will return the greatest benefits and that have the greatest probability for success.

You have a tremendously important role to fulfill if your company is going to end the frustration and disappointment of software-project failure and start getting the benefits promised by software.  Along with Senior Managers and Technology Professionals, now is the time and this is the place to take stock… take heart… and take control!

NEXT:  Look at how Project Portfolio Excellence makes sense from a financial perspective