Michael Hanford, Vice President, Gartner
Speaker Bio
Michael Hanford is a Vice President and analyst with Gartner's Program and Portfolio Management service. Mr. Hanford's research spans both the private and public sector, including implementation and capabilities evolution for portfolio management, large-scale program management, PMOs and EPMOs, and various aspects of IT governance. His public-sector work spans three countries: Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. He has variously worked, across 30 years of experience, as the visionary for a leading PPM toolset, a consulting director for large-scale change management programs, and chief methodologist for an industry-leading commercial methodology. Mr. Hanford chairs the PPM & IT Governance Summit, and is a co-author of the PPM Magic Quadrant.
Mr. Hanford has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Before joining Gartner, he was domain lead for contents and practices in the IT and business governance area for portfolio management at IBM Rational. The focus for this role was on portfolio management for projects and providing portfolio process expertise to next-generation executive dashboard tool development. Previous to this, Mr. Hanford worked as a "Big Five" consulting director and as a chief methodologist for the top-rated software and project management commercial methods.
Why Resource Planning is Hot
The Basics of Resource Management
Like the weather, in many organizations people complain about the lack of Resource Management, but no one does anything about it. If you can’t implement - at least - a basic-level set of functions and services to track and forecast your resource usage, then your firm will be stuck forever in the time-warp of level 1.7 PPM Maturity.
In this session, Michael Hanford, Vice President, Gartner, will discuss why resource planning is essential in today’s world, and then help you find a starting point, and gain initial traction around resource usage. His presentation will outline what to do first, how to sell upward, and cautions on going too far or not far enough.
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