Key Points:
• Large overlapping and competing priorities from infrastructure development, job creation, homelessness and environment.
• Constrained budgets and resources require selecting the most impactful projects and executing on them efficiently.
• Selecting and configuring a project and portfolio management system  will help you ensure you do the right projects, do projects right, and have visibility into the programs, resources, risks, costs, interconnections, and progress for the entire portfolio of work.

Key Points:
• Large overlapping and competing priorities from job creation, funding cuts and economic development.
• Constrained budgets and resources require selecting the most impactful projects and executing on them efficiently.
• Selecting and configuring a project and portfolio management system  will help you ensure you do the right projects, do projects right, and have visibility into the programs, resources, risks, costs, interconnections, and progress for the entire portfolio of work.

Key Points:
• With limited budgets and resources to address pressing challenges, utility companies need to make complex decisions to prioritize projects and programs.
• Once projects and programs are selected, firms need to have processes and technology in place to help manage projects successfully to completion. 
• Selecting and configuring a project and portfolio management system to meet your needs will help you ensure you do the right projects, do projects right, and have visibility into the programs, resources, risks, costs, interconnections, and progress for the entire portfolio of work.

Key Points:
• Microsoft’s Power Platform is a collective term for three application development solutions – Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps..
• Microsoft Project Online can be extended with Power Automate to integrate with other systems, such as a finance system to pull actual costs into projects. It can also be used to push information from Project back to other systems.
• Extending functionality can include adding business processes, document approvals, synchronization with financial and inventory systems, cost controls and synchronization to other systems like SharePoint.

Key Points:
• The Microsoft Project ecosystem is constantly evolving to meet and exceed user requirements.
• You are likely not accessing all the powerful functionality that is available.
• Upgrading to the latest Project Server version or migrating your project environment to Project Online can offer significant savings and opportunities.

Key Points:
• Microsoft introduces Project for the Web, a new way to manage simple projects.
• The release of Project for the web reinforces Microsoft’s commitment to the Project family, allowing people to work the way they prefer to work.
• Western Principles recommends that current Microsoft Project Online users optimize their current environments and test use cases for the new Project for the Web.

Key Points:
• Building a schedule is easy. Building a GOOD schedule is another story.
• How does your schedule rank against the Defense Contract Management Agency 14 Point Assessment?
• Western Principles and UMT360 can help you run reports and real time evaluations of your schedules to find the weak links.

Key Points:
• Financial Institutions face a variety of complex challenges, that all cluster around profitability.
• Portfolio Management solutions can help a Financial Institution optimize the selection of critical projects considering both constrained budgets and resources.
• Selecting the right projects will reduce organizational risk and drive higher returns.

Key Points:
• Capturing Lessons Learned from project experience is critical to future success.
• Lessons Learned must be owned by the PMO/EPMO and actioned to drive continuous improvement.
• Only what is measured can be managed, a Lessons Learned business process can be measured and managed.

Key Points:
• Digital Project and Portfolio Management is about transformational change
• Pull information from disparate systems into a single-source-of-truth to drive better and faster decisions
• Improve the quality and efficiency of project work with new technologies working together

Key Points:
• Natural time to re-evaluate your PPM Initiatives
• Look at how to best improve your organization’s project delivery performance.
• Maximize Return On Investment for your 2019 Project Portfolio

Key Points:
• Budgeting is a painful process, dominated by spreadsheets and squeaky wheels
• #1 goal must be alignment of investments with strategy
• A repeatable system, made up of people, processes, and technology, can accelerate your ability to select the right investments and drive higher ROI.

Key Points:
• Keep your Executive stakeholder engaged
• Communicate, Collaborate and Accelerate
• Drive higher ROI

Key Points:
• If you can’t see it you can’t measure it (and if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it)
• Metrics drive performance improvement behaviours
• Publish and respond to strategic and tactical key performance indicators