Portfolio Management has become a buzzword - with all the promise and risks that buzzwords bring. How do you cut through the hype and confusion and learn the real value of Portfolio Management? What results can you really expect?  This presentation goes beyond looking at dashboard views and presents the real challenges and real value in implementing Portfolio Management. 

The real challenge to Portfolio Management is in the definition and frequent, consistent update of the key parameters that need to drive your decision-making. However, many organizations are not in a position to implement a full Portfolio Management practice.   

This presentation presents an iterative and methodological approach to Portfolio Management that allows organizations to make small changes in a structured way. Along this path, we’ll show you how tools enable all aspects of Portfolio Management, providing the real-time “ticker” of the metrics needed to make portfolio decisions. 

The practice of Portfolio Management is a particularly hot topic for those responsible for OMB budgeting & EVM reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, CMM/CMMI efforts, Performance-based contracting, PMI/PMO, and Enterprise Architecture.

SPEAKER: Gary Winzenread, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, Number Six Software

Gary’s responsibilities include working with the Center for Software Development Innovation (CSDI) to continue the definition and development of innovative capabilities that provide value to Number Six’s customer base.  Before Number Six’s purchase of the Midwest-based Praxis Solutions, Gary served as Praxis’ President and CEO, and was one of the founders of Praxis in 1998.  At Praxis, Gary was instrumental in driving the combination of software engineering best practices and key metric collection that drives the Number Six Portfolio Management practices today.  His experience includes metrics-driven cost and return methods since shortly after Praxis’ inception in 1998, and the inclusion of metrics-driven risk analysis in 2002, leading immediately to the full Portfolio Management capabilities that are now embodied at continuously improved at Number Six Software.  Gary has almost 20 years of experience in the collection and analysis of key development metrics and their application to the improvement of productivity and quality since his graduation from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering.