Managing resources across
projects requires making management tradeoffs between project
opportunities. Firms must strike a balance between factors such
as strategic goals, market windows, fiscal realities, customer
demands, project timing, resource availability, resource
requirements, and outsourced leverage.
This workshop will provide practical insights into making
these balancing decisions. In particular, the workshop will
cover topics such as:
- How to measure portfolio performance and identify project
value drivers
- How to link business strategy and goals to individual
project decisions and priorities
- How to help an executive decision team develop project
priorities using value driver charts and dashboards
- How to avoid decision-making traps and pitfalls
- How to communicate and align project priorities across the
organization
- How to dynamically manage the new product portfolio under
changing market, technology, and project conditions
- How to leverage integrated project and portfolio
information systems to facilitate advanced resource,
pipeline, and portfolio management
Participants will also work through an interactive, hands-on
case example using a portfolio management system and a complete
portfolio data set.
This workshop will be
conducted by Mark Deck and
Jeff Dupuie, both with PRTM Consulting. Both Mark and Jeff
have extensive experience implementing portfolio and resource
management best practices with a broad set of high-technology
companies. Mark is a Director responsible for PRTM's overall
ePACE® practice (Product And Cycle-time Excellence®). Jeff is a
Principal who leads the Dynamic Portfolio Management segment of
ePACE.
Afternoon Workshop
1:00 pm – 5:00 pmB.
Agile Pipeline/Portfolio Management: How to Create Buy-In  |
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Greg Githens
Catalyst Consulting |
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Many organizational
improvement initiatives fail, including those focusing on
portfolio and pipeline management. There are many tools and
approaches, but also just as many divergent opinions on what to
do. Furthermore, external conditions can change so rapidly that
whatever is ultimately decided upon may become irrelevant.
This highly interactive workshop will provide a framework for
making sure people are aligned, that pipeline and portfolio
decisions are supported, and that you have the agility to adapt
as necessary. In addition, you will learn to choose and
effectively apply the right management techniques for your
unique environment. Your take-away will be a customized agile
deployment strategy, and you will have the opportunity to
compare approaches and insights with your peers.
Depending on participants’ specific interests, implementation
techniques to be covered include:
- Recognizing the "death spiral" that overwhelms
organizations with work
- Creating buy in and commitment
- Managing "popcorn priorities"
- Assessing risks during the rollout of new initiatives
- Creating organizational agility
- Polarity mapping
- Creating a sense of urgency in the organization
Greg Githens has over
20 years of experience in program management. He is a Managing
Partner with Catalyst Management Consulting. He works with firms
of all sizes and industries to solve specific problems, and to
create new capability or improve existing capability. This
includes rapid project development (improved time-to-market)
performance, tools/practices for both the "fuzzy front end" of
development, as well as the deployment back end. He has
considerable experience in facilitating strategic and tactical
planning.
Full Day Workshop
8:00 am – 5:00 pmC.
Implementing the TOC Multi-Project Method
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Tony Rizzo
PD Institute |
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Dr. Russel L. Ackoff writes
the following, about systems:
Imagine that you are able to
collect in your garage the best automobile engine ever
built, the most sophisticated transmission, the best
engineered fuel injection system and suspension system, the
sleekest automobile body ever designed by Ferrari, and the
most successful example of every automobile part ever
produced anywhere in the world. When you complete your
collection, will you have a car? No! When you complete your
collection, you will have nothing more than an aggregation
of car parts. A car is a system, and a system is not defined
by its parts but by the interactions between its parts.
A product development
organization, too, should be a system. But, most organizations
that exist today do not perform as effective systems. Rather,
they perform as aggregations of functions, mere collections of
organizational parts, which interact poorly if at all.
With the Theory of Constraints,
your new-product introduction organization can become one of the
most effective, most profitable for-profit systems in the world.
During this workshop you will learn:
- About Goldratt’s Theory of
Constraints.
- How to apply the Boyd Cycle &
Maneuver Warfare to new product introduction.
- How to leverage the Product
Development Information Cycle.
- How to use the Critical Chain
method.
- The difference between Type-A
organizations and Type-B organizations.
- About the components missing
from your system today.
- How to create an immediate
burst of speed.
- How to select the
right cut-over project.
- How to create effective
schedules.
- How to use the planning buffer
to keep your system running efficiently.
- How to use the placeholder
method to accommodate urgent customer needs.
- How to dramatically improve
your system’s financial performance while controlling costs.
- How to apply TOC’s Five
Focusing Steps to your entire enterprise and prepare for
success.
A special feature of this
workshop is the opportunity to use PDI’s exclusive physical
simulator -- from this hands-on activity, you will clearly see
how to create and manage a more effective system within your own
organization.
Tony Rizzo
was fortunate to have participated in the very first TOC
Multi-Project Management Method implementation in the world
while he was at Lucent Technologies. Tony personally guided that
first implementation and others to success. In all, Tony has
launched nearly a dozen such implementations. Today, Tony Rizzo
runs the New Jersey-based Product Development Institute, an
independent management consulting firm that specializes in the
improvement of profitability through TOC methods.
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