New PMO BAR Chat: Simplicity is the Key to Portfolio Control

In Rupert's recent BAR chat series, he's been taking a look at how to prepare your PMO to ride out stormy economic waters and maintain control and benefits. He's covered various aspects of how to do this, including preparing for tricky economic decisions ahead, creating a fast, easy portfolio reporting blueprint and embracing Reds and Ambers for early risk mitigation. His final BAR chat of the series rounds up these PMO portfolio management approaches together in one core concept: the importance of keeping things simple.

When you're managing a portfolio of programmes in volatile times, your PMO's Sponsors may need to reprioritise fast as circumstances change. They may even need to make tough decisions overnight. To do that, they're going to be reliant on your PMO to give them the instant, accessible PPM visibility they need.

In this five-minute BAR chat, Rupert uses Kivue's powerful, Cloud-based Portfolio Management and Reporting platform, Perform, to demonstrate the headline PMO tactics that will facilitate fast, meaningful portfolio decisions.  This PMO tutorial includes simple, actionable tips on how to:

• Give Sponsors the key strategic headlines in bite-sized chunks they can absorb - fast.
• Make the narrative easy to digest and initiate solution-focused discussions over risks and escalations.
• Provide real-time information on the progress of milestones and benefits.
• Generate visibility across your resource/capacity pipeline.
• Apply Kivue's 1:5 pre-read principle to ensure your PMO reporting is easily accessible to your Execs and SteerCos.

If you found this BAR chat useful, why not take a deeper dive with Rupert's latest on-demand webinar? Access the webinar FREE and watch at your leisure!

Take the ‘Pain’ Out of Portfolio Reporting – and Get Sponsor Decisions Done!

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