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At one of the earliest APM Portfolio Management Steering Committee meetings we decided to take our own medicine and adopt project management best practice!We did this by spending some agenda time thinking before doing.

Finally, it appears the future of the 2012 Olympic Stadium has been resolved with West Ham United winning out over Tottenham Hotspur’s proposal to knock it down and replace it with a football stadium.

In the past, we have attempted to keep SIG members up to date on what we are doing through occasional newsletter emails, but with our growing popularity the SIG felt we needed to adopt a more open and flexible method.

I have been reflecting recently on what makes portfolio management so different from project and programme management… and why I have been surprised that so many people don’t really seem to appreciate this.

Happy New Year to all ProgM members from the ProgM chair and committee.

Well, the 2010 Christmas project is nearing  its climax, with a spectrum of deliverables arriving on a timetable that started in the UK High Street in August and will end with NORADs Santa tracker on the night of 24th December, so we can follow Santas progress all around the world to our own chimneys.

No longer can Programme/Project Management Offices (PMOs) be seen as an isolated seemingly administrative overhead.

This new SIG has many challenges, no, lets call them opportunities why not? One of these is the promotion, or rather selling (the value of) portfolio management.

Arras Peoples Benchmarking Report is always an interesting read, and theyve recently kicked off the 2011 survey.