Session Absract:
As the IoT revolution gets underway, the experience spectrum of companies with IoT implementations can be divided into 3 broad areas:
* Nascent IoT implementations – Brand new, green field introduction of IoT, looking to find a foothold
* Mid-cycle implementations – IoT Initiatives that are mid flight for a few years now, looking to navigate well known blindspots and improve immediate value delivery
* Established long running implementations – Well established long running IoT efforts, looking for strategic value and sustenance based on capability added to enterprise
An agile Portfolio Management approach will be shown to be the catalyst that can ensure mission delivery and ROI for all the 3 stages above.That will be the focus of this presentation.
Speaker:
Murali Kulathumani, PMP, CSM, MBA is the author of two best selling books on Portfolio Management. He has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and has over 25 years of IT management experience. He has successfully managed large project portfolios at leading Silicon Valley firms such as Cisco, Symantec, and Kaiser Permanente. Murali has extensive knowledge of the full spectrum of portfolio capabilities. This leading expert also pioneered a simplified form of earned value management, called mEVM, which has been well received by industry practitioners and a number of organizations. In fact, it has become the standard at a billion-dollar business unit of a leading health care provider in the United States. Mr. Kulathumani has a technical degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University and an MBA from Purdue University. Murali earned the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute and he is a Certified Scrum Master. He is a published author, consultant, trainer, professional speaker, and has also taught courses as an adjunct professor at Purdue University.Murali has witnessed first-hand the turnarounds that can take place with proper guidance. This motivated him to share his expertise and to formalize this body of knowledge in the form of a book that explains in detail how to effectively manage project portfolios in real-world practice. His goal is to help practitioners and companies that have been struggling to implement portfolio management because there hasn’t been enough guidance about which success factors deliver the greatest impact.
