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Walker, Woody M
SENIOR DIRECTOR - DELIVERY MANAGEMENT
Ms. Walker is currently responsible for the CIBER North America Project Management Office (PMO) and brings more than 19 years of business and IT experience to the CIBER team. Ms. Walker has significant experience in application portfolio management, project portfolio management, project management office, program and project management, business process management and information technology operations. Ms. Walker holds an M.B.A. from the University of Central Florida, a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and a PMP certification with the Project Management Institute (PMI).
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Project Portfolio Management - Resource Management
Walker, Woody M, Senior Director - Delivery Management : 23 April 2012 / 1:31 PM : 1 
Once you have selected your project portfolio for the year; it’s time to assign resources to that portfolio. Portfolio Resource Management is an efficient and effective process of resource request, resource allocation, resource assignment, resource tracking, and resource forecasting for the entire PPM lifecycle. Answer the questions below to see how your organization is handling the Portfolio Resource Management process.
How does your organization assign resources to the selected project portfolio?
Posted in Project Management on 23 April 2012
Tagged: Project Management Project Methodology
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Project Portfolio Selection
Walker, Woody M, Senior Director - Delivery Management : 21 January 2011 / 5:18 PM : 0
So you’ve collected the demand for projects from your organization, not an easy feat! Congratulations! Next step is portfolio selection. Again, this can be a simple process to start with and you can continue to improve as your organization gets comfortable with Project Portfolio Management (PPM).
In this blog, we will discuss portfolio selection. Portfolio selection refers to the process of grouping, comparing, selecting and prioritizing the IT project portfolio to ensure business alignment.
How does your organization select their project portfolio?
Based on individual business cases and not from a...
Posted in Project Management on 21 January 2011
Tagged: Business Value CIO Information Management IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value Project Management Project Methodology
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IT Project Portfolio Management – Where do you start?
Walker, Woody M, Senior Director - Delivery Management : 28 October 2010 / 11:47 AM : 0
So now that you’ve decided that you need Project Portfolio Management (PPM) in your organization, how do you get started?
PPM has multiple process categories such as demand management, portfolio selection, resource management, project management, portfolio governance and financial management. In this blog, we will focus on demand management.
PPM demand management can be defined as the process for capturing and understanding all demand for IT projects in your organization. Demand Management is a crucial step to begin to manage the influx of project requests coming into the IT department. You will need to get the project request process und...
Posted in Project Management on 28 October 2010
Tagged: IT Planning IT to Business Alignment Project Management
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IT Project Portfolio Management – Do You Need It?
Walker, Woody M, Senior Director - Delivery Management : 22 October 2010 / 2:52 PM : 0
Have you heard the term Project Portfolio Management (PPM) being kicked around and wondered if it was necessary for the health and well-being of your IT organization? Ask yourself if any of these statements ring true at your organization:
Posted in Project Management on 22 October 2010
Tagged: IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value Project Management
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Repurposing Your Project Management Office (PMO)
Walker, Woody M, Senior Director - Delivery Management : 11 May 2009 / 1:52 PM : 0
In an economic environment characterized by near unprecedented losses in business profitability, jobs and personal wealth, the average business professional is focused on keeping the lights on. With thousands of organizations faced with delivering an acceptable level of business with fewer and fewer resources, who can afford Project Managers or a Project Management Office (PMO) full of Project Managers and Project Administrators?
Some leaders may feel that project management is not critical to the operation and survival of their business and so the PMO is sometimes the first thing to be disbanded. Project Managers are laid off or re-purposed int...
Posted in Project Management on 11 May 2009
Tagged: Information Management Project Methodology
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