====== SOLUTIONS: Project, program, and portfolio management ======


//"The current breed of SW tools developed in the context of project management are not adequate for the needs of program and portfolio management."//\\ \\
--Gower Handbook of Project Management



Program and portfolio are planned incrementally in a way of new demands for a change or a completely new project emerge.
Thus the resources allocation, e.g., cannot be of a zero-one type (allocated - not allocated), but it has to be done by a measure function assigning to each resource a degree of allocation to a given activity.\\ \\

A solution bringing added value for project managers, project teams and project offices have to:
  * **offer a comprehensible visualization** of the single project so as of the whole portfolio on this level of detail which is needed in the given situation
  * **recognize specific patterns**, namely anomalies, in the project, program, and portfolio data
  * **be able to advice** the project manager or the program or portfolio management team in particular situations
  * **act autonomously** in selected situations which needn't human reasoning\\ \\

Service Systems focusing on the project, program, and portfolio management area have to solve the following problems:
  * put the system on center stage (not just as an external modeling tool, but as an internal - core modelling and executing tool),
  * model the organizational management style and working methods,
  * truly decision support,
  * truly communication support,
  * to encourage people to talk and think ahead together,
  * have clear benefits for every interested party,
  * be easy to use,
  * help to measure attention payed by an individual or a group to the successful service or solution delivery as a rate to the whole attention absorbed by the project, program, or portfolio.\\ \\







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