Active PMOs that take a strategic, business-focused approach to project portfolio management (PPM) will be key to future success. This involves efficiently managing project intake, prioritization, and benefits realization to justify investment decisions and drive improved governance. It also requires finding innovative ways to unite multiple methodologies like agile and waterfall into a single governance view, and taking a top-down, outcome-focused approach to converting strategy into actionable projects. Additionally, PMOs must take a persona-based approach to speed adoption by different user groups, and provide clear communications and visibility into portfolio health, finances, and resources.

1. 10 Essential PPM Trends
Every Project Leader should follow

2. 1. Digital Business

3. The accelerating digital workplace constantly requires teams across
your enterprise to do more with less, meaning every organisation
will face a unique puzzle in their quest to ensure individual
resources are fully utilised. Finding an elegant way to visualise
resource availability, usage and backlog to manage and optimise
capacity at the project, programme and portfolio level will become
essential.

4. 2. Agile Planning

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As the enterprise need for agile
expands, high performing PMOs will
need to execute a clear strategic
response, focusing on how to translate
strategic initiatives into the project
portfolio to deliver real business value.
To effectively model the future,
organisations will need to efficiently
manage project intake, prioritisation
and benefits realisation to justify
investment decisions and drive
improved governance.

6. 3. Active PMOs

7. Active PMOs will continue to exceed while other PMO initiatives fail.
A strategy-led approach to PPM will be key to the future success of
many PMOs, ensuring they are aligned to an organisations goals
and driving real business value - both in and out of IT.

8. 4. Resource Management

9. Resource Management continues to be one of the greatest challenges for most organisations. With digitalisation
driving an increased pace of change it will be more important than ever for project leaders to extend their planning
horizon to gain clear visibility into resource demand and capacity. Leaders will face greater pressure to proactively
allocate resources across teams, departments and geographic locations, in an active collaborative manner, in order
to remove capacity gaps and reduce exceptions.

10. 5. New IT Delivery Models

11. As agile project management techniques continue to build momentum, project leaders will need to find
innovative ways to unite multiple methodologies to provide a single governance view. To help ease this
transition to a more bimodal way of working, orgainsations will need to take a more top-down business
outcome focused approach to PPM, converting strategy into actionable projects by focusing on critical
milestones that provide operational insight which help deliver change fast.

12. 6. Persona Based Usage

13. As PPM maturity continues to increase and business value rises, more and more PMOs will continue to extend their
reach throughout the business. With the added prospect of multiple user groups with diverse requirements, PMOs
will need to take a more persona based approach to speed user adoption, utilising pre-configured user journeys
focused on different business outcomes and end user requirements.

14. 7. Business
Demand for
Adaptive
Approaches

15. Agile methods, rapid change and limited budgets will
all play a crucial role in determining the success of
many PMO. PMOs that fail to mature and take a more
strategic approach to PPM will most likely become
misaligned with an organization's goals, be seen as
failing to deliver value and face being disbanded.

16. 8. Stakeholder
Communication

17. With a greater focus on strategy execution and business value,
PMOs should place fresh emphasis on engaging project
stakeholders with clear communications. Proactive PMOs will
offer efficient ways to streamline project status and progress
reporting to provide a common form of governance across
multiple methodologies. Key to achieving this will be to focus
on key KPIs that provide clear visibility into the health of your
portfolio, financials & resources.

18. 9. Achieve a More
Business Outcome Focus

19. For many years PPM has been viewed as a tool predominantly for IT, but in the face of unrivalled change,
portfolio leaders need to take a more business outcome focused approach to portfolio selection and
prioritisation, to increase their influence across the business. A strategy-led approach to PPM will help
build consistency, enabling PMOs to easily peer into the future to make justifiable decisions on how to
drive innovation whilst balancing the need for business as usual activities.

20. 10. BOYD to Work

21. With more geographically dispersed
teams and an increasing trend towards
HTML5 and mobile working, access to
critical project data on-the-go is now
essential. Project leaders need to
reach beyond traditional features such
as tasks, timesheets and expenses to
provide executives and stakeholders
with clear visibility into key KPIs via
intuitive persona-focused dashboards
with actionable content.