Implementing portfolio management – where do we start?
Time
12.00 - 12.30
Details
Portfolio management sounds great… until you try to implement it and discover how quickly it can turn into extra governance, muddier decisions, and frustrated stakeholders. In this Birds of a Feather session, Steve Jenner will kick off with a simple, recommended approach to getting portfolio management in place successfully — then we’ll open it up to a guided group discussion to surface the most common challenges in the room. Together, we’ll swap experiences and practical fixes, including how to avoid the four mistakes organisations most often make when implementing portfolio management.
Come along if you’re starting from scratch, rebooting a struggling approach, or just want to compare notes with people dealing with the same messy realities.
Catch Steve's session in Zone 1 at 12noon.
Key Features
Takeaways
- A simple starting pathway for implementing portfolio management
- The four most common implementation mistakes - and what to do instead
- A shortlist of the top challenges faced by peers
- A set of practical ideas and “next steps” you can take back to your organisation
- Reassurance that you’re not the only one finding this stuff hard
Steve Jenner is an author, practitioner and trainer working primarily in the areas of project portfolio management & benefits management. He is the author of, and chief examiner for, APMG’s Managing Benefits™ (3rd edition, 2024) and Managing Portfolios™ (2024). He was also co-author of the OGC/Axelos, Management of Portfolios. Steve is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA), with an MBA, and holds a Masters of Studies degree from Cambridge University.