I will be giving a presentation titled, “Optimizing the IT Project Portfolio: Best Practices” at Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, April 4-8, in Chicago.

If you are attending the conference and are able to attend my education session, please feel free to come up and say hello after the presentation. 

If you can’t attend, send me an e-mail and I will send you a copy of the slides and give you information on how to can obtain the audio CD. 

Below is the date, time and location plus a brief description of the presentation.

• Session 103
• Tuesday, April 7
• 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
• Room S 401 d

Description:
Learn how various healthcare organizations, using best practices, are selecting and prioritizing projects, optimizing resource utilization, and managing their IT and enterprise project portfolios using scorecards, dashboards and software.

Objectives:

• Understand the components of a project portfolio
• Employ one of three techniques to select and prioritize projects
• Understand the differences between resource capacity, resource demand, and resource utilization and how to optimize resource usage
• Review how to monitor the project portfolio using organizational specific dashboards
• Identify when its time to terminate projects on life support