Ready to turn those ideas into reality but not sure where to start? In this webinar, we will discuss different strategies to ensure that you are starting with a clear, measurable goal & embarking on a project that aligns with your target. As well as learn tactics to better align & communicate priorities to your team.

This presentation will demonstrate how optimizing the project intake process can help drive strategic alignment, improve project portfolio management (PPM) visibility, and increase buy-in to achieve better results.

Molly, Founder of Echo Consulting, will provide a deep dive into the roles and responsibilities necessary for a robust project intake process and how value stream mapping can be utilized to identify gaps and pain points and streamline workflows for more efficient and higher quality data-driven decision making. Providing participants with insight on how a PPM intake process can be a catalyst decrease churn and improve return on investment (ROI), Molly will share specific examples, tools, tactics, and techniques she has utilized with clients ranging from Fortune 200 to small local non-profits, and many in between. Additionally, this webinar will review the prioritization matrix framework and how it can provide quantitative analysis to help overcome analysis paralysis and provide more transparency to how projects map back to the strategic goals and initiatives of an organization.

Key Takeaways

• Roles and responsibilities for project portfolio management (PPM) intake

• Using value stream mapping to identify gaps in the project intake process

• Translating strategic goals into defined prioritization drivers

• Overview of the prioritization matrix technique

• Adoption tactics for building team buy-in