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Published on: March 2008
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Price: FREE

Overview:
In the pursuit of improving IT project delivery, many companies tend to focus primarily on the process but might overlook a crucial step: benchmarking effectiveness. This CA white paper discusses tips and techniques for setting up effective, iterative benchmarking and project rollout. The focus is on utilizing industry standard PPM/PMO frameworks to benchmark, analyze, and evolve your organization's levels of PMO maturity.

Once you have read this report, you'll receive valuable insights and featured research from Gartner to help you improve your IT project delivery in five weekly bite-sized segments for quick and easy consumption. Here's what will be available:

• Week 1: Featured Gartner Research Report: Key
Questions and Answers: Program and Portfolio
Management - Laying the foundation for project
success. CA video featuring Gartner: Getting
everyone on the same page - Gartner Research
VP Matt Light introduces the fundamental role
of the project management 'center of
excellence' in delivering IT projects
• Week 2: Assessing project management maturity
• Week 3: Evolving from project to portfolio
management
• Week 4: Deploying portfolio management
solutions
• Week 5: Adopting best practices

Topics:

IT Portfolio Management
Project Management Solutions
Change and Configuration Management
Requirements Management
Application Lifecycle Management(ALM)
IT Service Management (ITSM)/ IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)