{"id":10582,"date":"2011-10-14T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/project-portfolio-management\/"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:02:52","slug":"project-portfolio-management","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/24546\/project-portfolio-management--ppm","title":{"rendered":"Project Portfolio Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_project_portfolio_management_mean\">What Does Project Portfolio Management Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Project portfolio management (PPM) is a holistic management strategy used to align an organization&#8217;s software, portfolios and projects for analysis and collaboration. PPM streamlines and optimizes management activities to facilitate and fulfill successful business and technical objectives.<\/p>\n<p>A number of vendors sell PPM software products as on-demand or software as a service (SaaS) solutions, including Hewlett-Packard, Eclipse and Instantis.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_project_portfolio_management\">Techopedia Explains Project Portfolio Management<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Effective planning is the greatest challenge in PPM because an organization&#8217;s infrastructure is often derived from traditionally informal project assessment systems that are similar to political processes. 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