Where do projects come from?

This presentation outlines current thinking and emerging best practice for programme and project selection and prioritisation. It refers to initiatives managed by the UK Office of Government Commerce; ProgM (the Association for Project Management and British Computer Society's Special Interest Group in Programme Management); the Project Management Institute and the Association for Project Management. This emerging best-practice approach provides processes for selecting and prioritising programmes on the basis of their required investments in terms of money and resources balanced with the expected financial and non-financial benefits. Examples are drawn from both the public and commercial sectors where IT departments are playing a key role in developing a rational approach to this topic.