THE AUTHORS

Linda E. Szmyt

As one of the first Canadians to have received the PfMP certification in 2014, Linda Szmyt has built and subsequently led PMOs and the implementation of portfolio management frameworks at five global high tech companies. Linda is actively involved in PMI having served on the Ottawa Chapter board in 2003 and participated in the PfMP exam development and mentorship program. She is an international speaker and author on the topics of product management, project portfolio management, business transformation, and agile. Linda currently resides in The Netherlands.

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Fernando Santiago

A pioneer and innovator in the area of benefits realization management for more than ten years, in which he has published several white papers and articles, delivered webinars and presentations. Fernando has over twenty five years of progressive experience in project, program, portfolio and PMO management, He has worked in financial institutions, energy and technology companies, as well as educational and professional institutions in North America, South America, Asia and Europe. Fernando is a practitioner, consultant and trainer. He is an international speaker and invited professor at the MBA level.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Outcome-Driven Organization

The challenges you face managing a portfolio of projects have been magnified by the uncertainty and complexity introduced by the explosion in technology and volatility in the economy as recently seen with Covid-19. This book offers concrete methods and tools that you can download and use on day one. Linda and Fernando, 30+ year practitioners, leverage a significant body of knowledge to present concrete solutions to the problems you face.

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You have to decide on business cases that are unreliable and exaggerated, that do not factor uncertainty, more fiction than fact. You will be able to assess the validity of business cases, so they factor uncertainty, are realistic, measurable comparable and verifiable after delivery.

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You need to allocate funding across projects, programs and product projects that impact the operation so one-size fits all governance does not work. You will be able to define and adjust governance to properly allocate funding and manage each project in terms of its contribution to results.

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You introduced PPM and benefits realization management a few years ago, the results are disappointing, and you don’t understand why. You will be able to identify corrective actions and build a sustainable PPM and BRM framework that deliver the expected results.

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You are pressured to approve new investments in the project portfolio based on value to customers, shiny objects, and “we have to do this” projects without hard financial justifications. You will have the tools to assess financial value for any project, and its contribution to business results.

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Your business environment feels chaotic, the “rules of the game” are inconsistent, communications are haphazard, decisions are ambiguous, and predictability of outcomes is an illusion. You will learn how outcome-driven organization embrace PPM practices to manage projects as investments and focus what’s really important, financial outcomes.

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Your organization switches strategies in response to bad market conditions or business trends, unnecessarily creates fear, uncertainty and doubt, succumbs to heroics, and burns out your resources. You will be able to build agility and resiliency into your organization’s operating rhythm and ethos.

Linda and Fernando use fiction to present the content with an underlying story, as well as multiple real-life examples. The characters in the book interact through case studies and, yes, the book ends with an unexpected twist.

Get this book, and you will run your project portfolio on espresso: rich, robust and fun, so resources and funding produce strong financial results.

As a bonus for purchasing the book, you can have:
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  • check Virtual class-room training and webshops using the tool
  • check Virtual workshop with your team, up to 4 hours
  • check Functional and technical support
BRMTool is a robust expert system that integrates all the concepts and tools captured in the Outcome Driven Organization.
  • check The core of the solution is the modeling tool for execution of transformational strategy and to model program benefits. The model is a dynamic and fully functional benefits map that supports
  • check Calculation and propagation of benefits and investments, based on the relative contributions captured in the model.
  • check Aggregation of delivery and benefit risk, from projects to programs to portfolios
  • check Aggregation of status, similar to risk
  • check Return on Investment at every node.
  • check Structured calculation of hard-benefits both for transformational and for operational initiatives.
  • check Assessment of risk, both delivery and benefit.
  • check Reporting status at the project, program and portfolio levels, that aggregates and consolidates information for the next level.

ValueViewer

Info-graphics for Value Management

At the portfolio level, ValueViewer presents all the key information from BRMTool, presenting information on project status, stage, investment. See more

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