# What are the components of PPM?

What are the components of PPM?

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- Posted at: about 4 years ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Project portfolio management is a multi-faceted strategic discipline that includes a number of capabilities. Each of these capabilities is covered in more detail in the presentation at the bottom of the page.

*Work Intake – refers to the steps of developing a project proposal and bringing it to the governance board for a go/no-go decision.

*Phase-Gate – a governance structure to evaluate, authorize, and monitor projects as they pass through the project lifecycle.

*Prioritization – the process of evaluating project value in order to assign resources to the most important projects and start work at the appropriate time

*Portfolio Optimization – refers to optimization techniques used to identify the optimal grouping of projects that maximize the risk-adjusted portfolio value at a given budgetary level

*Portfolio Planning – the process to optimize the sequencing and timing of approved projects based on resource constraints and dependencies

*Resource Capacity Planning – the process of comparing future resource utilization of project resources against available capacity to do work

*Portfolio Risk Management – assesses the risk nature of projects and manages portfolio level risks

*Portfolio Communication – processes to communicate about all aspects of project and portfolio progress

*Portfolio Reporting and Analytics – processes to analyze and report against the value and progress of the portfolio

*Portfolio Value Management – processes to evaluate, measure, and track project benefits at the portfolio level

*Project Monitoring – processes to measure and track project health and performance

*Portfolio Governance – the decision making process to select and prioritize project work

To learn more about project portfolio management, check out: https://acuityppm.com/ppm-101-what-is-project-portfolio-management/

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: over 3 years ago
- Author title: President at Acuity PPM 




## Related Product
[Acuity PPM](https://www.g2.com/products/acuity-ppm/reviews)

## Related Category
[Project and Portfolio Management](https://www.g2.com/categories/project-and-portfolio-management)

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