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 Status Reports: The snapshot reporting mechanism enables project, program, and
application managers to generate periodic status reports to measure the overall
health of each investment throughout their life cycle.
 Cost Management: Maintain financial controls by assessing budget versus
actual for project cost.
 Resource Management: Evaluate staffing and resource utilization.
 Change Request: Raise change requests for approval and automatically update
the original budget to keep an accurate baseline.
 Flexible Reporting Framework: Use the Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 report
generators to customize and publish report templates so you can standardize and
streamline the reporting process across the organization.
Governance—Scenarios
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Scenario: Jeff Chia, director of reservation
processing at Blue Yonder Airlines, believes the airline requires an online customer
reservation system. Jeff knows that there is a governance framework in place in order to
approve, budget, and implement any project.
Jeff completes a project request form, providing an overview of the project’s objectives
and the business rationale. The workflow, defined to automate Blue Yonder Airlines’
governance framework, alerts Christina Lee (senior vice president of Operations) and
Axel Delgado (general manager of the E-Business division) about the completed project
request. Upon reviewing the proposal, both approve the request and ask Jeff to complete
a detailed business case to further justify his project.
Next, Jeff completes a detailed business case, which includes capturing budget cost
estimates, budget resource estimates, and benefit estimates, undertaking a strategic
impact assessment against Blue Yonder Airlines’ business drivers, and completing a risk
questionnaire. When the business case is completed, Christina and Axel are again notified
and the project is approved to be considered for the next project portfolio.