First Impressions of Meisterplan: Portfolio and Resources but No Tasks

Our project portfolio management research practice helps a lot of clients who haven’t succeeded with full-blown PPM suites like Project Server and Clarity. Meisterplan is a...

Run-Grow…Appease: Whither the Ideal Portfolio Mix?

There is no archetypal portfolio mix that all project portfolios should strive toward.

Refine Your Estimation Practices With Top-Down Allocations

As a portfolio manager, you’re expected to size projects for approval and intake before they have sufficient definition. The consequences of initial sizing are felt...
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Refine Your Estimation Practices With Top-Down Allocations – Executive Brief

Read this Executive Brief to understand why bad estimates are costing your organization money and obscuring the good work your team is doing.

Refine Your Estimation Practices With Top-Down Allocations – Phases 1-3

This storyboard will help you improve the accuracy of your early estimates using top-down allocations and analogous estimation principles.

Refine Your Estimation Practices With Top-Down Allocations – Phase 1: Build Organizational Memory to Inform Early Estimations

This phase of the blueprint, Refine Your Estimation Practices With Top-Down Allocations, will help you glean insight and value from your past projects.

PMO Organizational Memory Tool

Use this tool to track, maintain, and analyze historic project data. The lessons learned and project data contained here will improve the estimates and throughput of future...

T-Shirt Sizing Health Check Lite

Use this tool to evaluate your estimation capabilities if you lack access to a comprehensive project history. Estimate the health of past estimates to start new projects...

Project Estimation Playbook

Use this template to track and develop an estimation process that is cohesive and repeatable for all future projects.

Refine Your Estimation Practices With Top-Down Allocations – Phase 2: Develop and Refine a Reliable Estimate With Top-Down Allocations

This phase of the blueprint, Refine Your Estimation Practices With Top-Down Allocations, will help you use your project history to develop and validate expectations for new...
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