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3. Portfolio Management is a Growing Market Gain Visibility & Control Across all Investment Portfolios Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Build / Update Inventory Derive Assessment Scores Finalize Transformation Decisions Project & Program Management Analyze Portfolio Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Build / Update Inventory Derive Assessment Scores Finalize Transformation Decisions Analyze Portfolio Portfolio Analytics Develop Business Case Portfolio Prioritization Portfolio Optimization Capacity Planning Portfolio Selection Detailed Planning Execution / Delivery Update Portfolio Inventory

4. Ability to Identify Business Value Potential (Project Portfolio Server 2007) Ability to Realize Business-Value Potential (Project Server 2007) 75% 100% 66% 100% 0% Portfolio Management Project Management 50% Value Realized 50% Value Lost Project Management helps ensure organizations successfully deliver the selected investments and realize the business value Project Portfolio Management: Select & Deliver the Right Investments Portfolio Management enables organizations to identify and select the investments that will maximize business value

6. Microsoft Office EPM Solution Project & Portfolio Managers Team Members Resource Managers IT Exec Stakeholders

7. What is our EPM Solution? Executives Portfolio Analysts Project Managers Application Managers Line of Business Systems Project Managers Executives Resource Managers Team Members Project Server Gateway

8. EPM Solution Deployment Options Big Bang Approach Phased Approaches Deploy all products within the EPM Solution at the same time Utilize a phased approach to deploy the products within the EPM Solution to address specific pain points Option 2 Phase 1 Phase 2

9. EPM Solution Deployment Best Practice 1 Capture the project request and build detailed business case. Select the optimal project portfolio Export selected projects to Project Server 2007 Track and manage the project to a successful conclusion 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 Capacity analysis and detailed project planning 5

10. Predefined workflows help ensure the projects are subject to the appropriate governance controls throughout their life cycle (from proposal to post-implementation) Capture all project requests within a central repository, and define business-case templates to standardize the data collection across the organization Capture Project Requests/Ideas Create: Capture Project Requests in an Enterprise Repository Governance Workflow

11. Build a detailed business case for each project request in accordance with the governance workflow General Information Cost Estimates Resource Estimates Benefit Estimates Strategic Impact Assessment Risk Assessment Create: Business Case Development

12. Use proven techniques to define and prioritize business drivers Derive a priority score to evaluate each project request (that is, strategic value, financial value, risk) Prioritize Business Drivers Prioritize Projects Assess the impact of each project request against the prioritized business drivers Business Drivers Projects Analyze the project portfolio before attempting to make funding decisions Investment Maps Impact Assessment Select: Portfolio Prioritization

13. Use sophisticated optimization algorithms to maximize the portfolio’s strategic value under varying budget constraints (that is, cost and resources) ‘ What If’ Analysis Efficient Frontier Modeling Business Alignment Analysis Benchmark the selected portfolio against the Efficient Frontier Calculate and communicate the selected portfolio’s alignment with the organization’s strategic priorities Select: Portfolio Optimization & Advanced Analytics

14. Office Project Server Gateway Select: Project Server Gateway Utilize the Project Server Gateway to export the selected projects from Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 to Project Server 2007

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