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CEO, Project Arena
Demian is the founder and CEO of Project Arena, an on demand software company focused on helping organizations take a project portfolio management approach to improving the performance and alignment of projects and resources. Prior to Project Arena, he co-founded Convoy Corporation and was the Chief Architect of its initial products. Convoy made Software Magazine's 1998 list of the top 500 software companies and led the 1998 middleware market with an annual growth rate of 670 percent. New Era of Networks (NEON) purchased Convoy in June 1999. Demian worked in the trenches as a software engineer developing core business applications from 1988 through 1993 at Transamerica and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. During his 15 year career, Demian has assumed leadership roles as a consultant and as an entrepreneur delivering commercial and corporate database applications.
April 4, 2006
A candid discussion of Project Portfolio Management. This blog will focus on my latest thoughts around critical PPM issues facing organizations today and challenge readers to elicit meaningful conversations around the state of the industry and the impacts on IT organizations.
March 24, 2006
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A recent article in the March 2006 issue of PM Network (put out by the Project Management Institute) discusses the importance of Project Portfolio Management. The article is entitled "Decision Time: M
March 20, 2006
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In the portfolio context, we must revisit what is perhaps the most fundamental aspect of a project: the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Now that the project has already moved out of the center of the