Effective Requirements Planning webinar on Feb. 4th

Reduce Project Costs & Failures through Effective Requirements Planning
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 – 8:00 a.m. PST, 11:00 a.m. EST
Learn how to streamline the planning and tracking of requirements in a live demonstration of requirements planning, one of the marquee features in CA Clarity PPM v12.
Register at:

http://Reduce Project Costs and Failures with Requirements Planning

CA Announces Results of PPM Return on Investment Study

Yesterday, CA announced the study that forms the basis of the web based assessment
at http://PPM-Maturity-Assessment

For me, the most compelling part of the findings are:

- The number of redundant projects decreased by 78 percent
- Project failure rates decreased by 59 percent
- Cost per project fell by 37 percent
- The time to market for revenue-generating initiatives dropped by 33%

I also liked the included customer quote:
“The visibility and information provided by CA Clarity PPM ensures that strategic, business transformation projects as well as new products and services, are delivered on time and within budget, leading to greater competitive advantage,”

Jean-Michel Huten, Director of IT Planning, Worktools and Methodologies, Generali France.

The CA Clarity PPM Fanclub Reaches New Heights

Today, the CA Clarity Fan Club was at Linkedin.com reached 66 members. To join view
http://Linkedin CA Clarity PPM Fan Club

Royal College of Surgeons slams NHS IT

Having and read and commented on the above, I wondered if you may have come across it at http://ComputerWorldUK

I would love to see your comments on this. It is such a contrast from the Department
of Human Services for the State of Colorado, who's success storey is posted at http://CA Clarity PPM StateSuccess

Service Portfolio Management Webinar - Jan 29th 2009

The itSMF have put together a great line up of speakers to discuss SPM for this event. To register, please visit
Service Portfolio Management, your quickest route to Business Relationship Management?.

Use PPM to Manage IT Investment Risk

I was recently directed to a great article on http://using PPM to manage IT investment risk authored by Lisa Erickson-Harris of EMA. She also sees the value of linking PPM to service management to enable better service-centric IT and project management.