Project and Portfolio Management

The Challenge: Doing the Right Things Right

In an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, your company’s success depends on its ability to identify the most important projects to invest in. As well as financial returns, these projects need to demonstrate alignment with your strategic objectives in order to get their share of the organization's sometimes constrained resources. Identifying the right projects is only part of the challenge: the second part is to manage their implementation efficiently while also keeping them on time, within scope and budget, and measuring their long term value and financial benefits.

The Solution: Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management

Project and Portfolio Management has become the essential management discipline that enables organizations to govern their end-to-end operational investment management processes. Project and Portfolio Management consists of idea generation (Create), project and portfolio selection and implementation analysis (Select), resource alignment and capacity planning (Plan) and ongoing project execution and performance management (Manage). Adoption of Project and Portfolio Management best practices enables organizations to gain control across all demand, improve resource utilization and effectively deliver the right initiatives on time.

	Create: Determine business objectives, create project proposals based on discretionary and necessary demand, and establish workflow Standardize business case requirements to consistently capture project proposals Define business drivers based on organizational strategy and determine alignment of projects to business drivers Leverage UMT best practices to guide the tailoring of a portfolio workflow and governance framework throughout your project lifecycle
	Select: Prioritize business drivers and projects and select the optimal portfolio given constraints Leverage optimization and what-if analysis and facilitated discussion to examine budget, resource, and risk constraints, mandated projects, and potential alternatives to help you determine the optimal project portfolio Analyze your organization’s resource capabilities, skills supply versus project demand, and sourcing decisions
	Plan: Leverage a dynamic multi-year roadmap of all the planned projects to enhance planning through greater visibility into near term and future resource and budget requirements Improve utilization of resources across the enterprise and manage outsourced resources Evaluate and finalize sourcing options
	Manage: Monitor and report at the project, program, and portfolio level Establish project execution and reporting standards Identify key reports for your organization, including financial, resource utilization, benefits realization, and risk reports Leverage reports to track project status across programs or portfolios

We understand it is not uncommon for change initiatives to fail, so UMT is extremely focused on developing project and portfolio management solutions that are realistic, appropriate and ultimately, implementable to ensure your project and portfolio management efforts are successful.

UMT leverages over 20 years of best practices, tool expertise, proven methodologies and process knowledge to implement project and portfolio management solutions that give our clients the ability to select the right portfolio of projects and execute those projects on time, in scope and in budget.

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