Project Prioritization Frameworks that Work
Tactics for maximizing institutional value in project evaluation
This report profiles tactics that make IT project prioritization decisions faster, fairer, and better aligned to institutional strategic needs. Institutions can achieve these goals by more carefully shaping prioritization body workloads, assessing projects in a uniform manner, and reducing the potential for project assessment bias.
In 2019, the IT Forum launched our Functional Collaborative on IT Project Management. About 55 project management leaders came together to discuss and seek advice about how to control project demand on campus and how to accurately prioritize projects.
Project prioritization demands a common understanding among prioritization participants of the characteristics that make a project valuable to the institution. A process of applying such criteria must also overcome the natural biases and special interests of project requesters and approvers alike.
The IT organization’s responsibility is to provide prioritization tools for standardized review, select and train participants to promote an institutional perspective, and ingrain a culture of accountability in prioritization decisions.
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