Do More with Less: How to Align Projects and Strategy

Do more with less! Project portfolio management (PPM) allows you to select the projects that will deliver maximum business value. PPM is not project management on steroids. It is fundamentally different from project management and requires completely different techniques and perspectives.

This session will show you what portfolio management is, how it complements project management, and why it is vital for business success. It will summarize current portfolio management techniques and best practices and will show you how to select, prioritize, and coordinate projects to increase their value to your organization.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the five steps of the portfolio management process and how those steps integrate with other important management systems, such as strategic planning and project management.

• Use best practices of maximizing and balancing to select a portfolio of projects that aligns with strategy and gives maximum return.

• Verify that the portfolio integrates with the organization’s system of project implementation and monitoring and that it fits with the organization’s capacity, skills, and resources.

Presenter Bio

Jeff Oltmann is a seasoned leader and teacher with over 40 years of experience advising clients, managing successful technology programs, and developing new products. His specialties include

strategy deployment, operational and project excellence, and project portfolio management. As principal consultant at Synergy Professional Services, Jeff advises leaders and teams in diverse sectors including healthcare, research, bioscience, and technology product development. Jeff is a faculty member in the Division of Management at Oregon Health and Science University, where he specializes in projects to improve healthcare. He teaches project and program management courses for the Healthcare MBA, a joint program of OHSU and the School of Business at Portland State University. He is also part of the Human Investigations Program at OHSU, where he teaches about management of clinical research projects.

Jeff is founder of the Portfolio and Project Leaders Forum, was previously on executive staff at IBM, and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP®). He holds Masters and Bachelor’s degrees in engineering and is a published author and frequent keynote speaker.

PDU: 1.5 Business Acumen

Non-members ...  $30.00
Chapter Members ... $20
Chapter Student Members and Veterans ... $15