Begin by establishing a few foundational practices that will work to drive project throughput.
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Estimate project capacity, determine what needs to be tracked on an ongoing basis, and determine what criteria is necessary for prioritizing projects.
Develop a process to inform the portfolio of the project status, create a plan that can be maintained throughout the project lifecycle, and manage the scope through a change request process.
Perform a change impact assessment and identify the obvious and non-obvious stakeholders to develop a message canvas accordingly.
Develop a roadmap for how to move from the current state to the target state.
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Establish the current state of the portfolio.
Organize the portfolio requirements.
Determine how projects are prioritized.
Understand project capacity supply-demand.
Build a portfolio book of record.
Create a project value scorecard.
1.1 Conduct capacity supply-demand estimation.
1.2 Determine requirements for portfolio book of record.
1.3 Develop project value criteria.
Clear project capacity
Draft portfolio book of record
Project value scorecard
Feed the portfolio with the project status.
Plan the project work with a sustainable level of granularity.
Manage the project as conditions change.
Develop a process to inform the portfolio of the project status.
Create a plan that can be maintained throughout the project lifecycle and manage the scope through a change request process.
2.1 Determine necessary reporting metrics.
2.2 Create a work structure breakdown.
2.3 Document your project change request process.
Feed the portfolio with the project status
Plan the project work with a sustainable level of granularity
Manage the project as conditions change
Discuss change accountability.
Complete a change impact assessment.
Create a communication plan for stakeholders.
Complete a change impact assessment.
Identify the obvious and non-obvious stakeholders and develop a message canvas accordingly.
3.1 Discuss change accountability.
3.2 Complete a change impact assessment.
3.3 Create a communication plan for stakeholders.
Assign accountability for the change
Assess the change impact
Communicate the change
Summarize current state.
Determine target state.
Create a roadmap.
Develop a roadmap for how to move from the current state to the target state.
4.1 Summarize current state and target state.
4.2 Create a roadmap.
Stakeholder Communication Deck
MS Project Wireframe