PMI-DVC Chapter Meeting, January 26, 2022

10 Ways to Score and Prioritize Project Proposals Based on Multiple Factors, Including Strategic Alignment

When: Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Via Zoom 
Credit: 2 Strategic PDUs
Registration fee: Complimentary

Speaker: Scott M. Graffius

Description:

How does your organization assess proposals for new projects? Is there a well-defined scoring and prioritization process—based on alignment with the business’ strategic objectives and other key factors—to quickly and easily identify the objective value of each proposal? If the answer is “no,” keep reading. If the answer is “yes,” you’re still likely to find practical information and examples in this talk to adapt and adopt to improve the process at your organization.

 Learning objectives:

This session will help you develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

• Understand the benefits of scoring and prioritizing project proposals based on strategic alignment and other key factors.
• Identify selection and prioritization criteria appropriate for your unique organization, leveraging the flexible framework and some or all of the 10 factors presented during the talk.
• Put the practical, actionable information presented to use. During the session, we will run an example project proposal through the process, step-by-step. And you will receive a summary “cheat sheet” digital download that you can reference as a guide to help implement or improve this process at your organization.

The presentation draws on the speaker’s first-hand, real-world experience, with his guidance supported by related standards, best practices, and recommendations from the Project Management Institute, MIT, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and others.

Speaker’s bio:

Scott M. Graffius, PMP, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO, SFE, ITIL, LSSGB is an agile project management practitioner, consultant, award-winning author, and international speaker. He has generated over 1.75 billion dollars of business value in aggregate for the organizations he has served. Graffius is the founder, CEO, and principal consultant at Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™ and subsidiary Exceptional Agility™. His expertise spans project, program, portfolio, and PMO leadership inclusive of agile, traditional, and hybrid approaches. Content from his books, workshops, speaking engagements, and more have been featured and used by businesses, professional associations, governments, and universities including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Ford, Qantas, Gartner, Bayer, National Academy of Sciences, United States Department of Energy, United States Army, Project Management Institute, IEEE, SANS Institute, New Zealand Ministry of Education, Tufts University, Warsaw University of Technology, University of Waterloo, and others. He is a member of the Project Management Institute, Scrum Alliance, and the IEEE. Graffius has spoken at 58 conferences and other events around the world, including Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. Thinkers360 named Graffius a global top thought leader and influencer in four domains: Agile, Change Management, Digital Transformation, and GovTech. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.