Project Portfolio management is now becoming increasingly important due to the impact on business, the complexities and interdependencies in enterprise IT. PPM is a strategic practice and provides value by addressing tactical and strategic decisions across high impact and lower impact projects and IT portfolios by bringing the business strategic perspective in focus.

Project planning and project management focus on addressing the needs of individual projects, however by embedding it into an enterprise plateau with PPM provides — increased value to both the project managers and the business to understand key areas such as:

• Maximize Value through efficient delivery and governance
• Balance the Portfolio
• Aligning Projects With Organizational Strategy
• Resource Management and Planning — Derive value through associating the right resources to the projects based on strategic value derived
• Ability to measure TCO on projects delivered and applications being used.

The focus here, is on the ability to derive value from individual projects as well from the whole.

Mahesh currently works with Serena Software in the capacity of Regional Product Manager and Chief Evangelist, Asia Pacific. As part of this role, Mahesh´s responsibilities range from providing solution advisory and delivery, ensuring conformance of product features vis—à—vis requirements and new technology initiatives. Mahesh is part of the product definition and operational review committees. Currently, Mahesh is heavily involved in helping define PPM directions, and regularly contributes articles on the same.

Prior to this role, Mahesh has spent over 8 years in a consulting role, responsible for providing his expertise in solution definition, architecture design, process definition and implementation services across geographically dispersed software teams to our various multi-national and local customers. In all, Mahesh has more than ten years worth of experience in Configuration Management Principles, Change Management (of Applications, Databases, and IT Infrastructure et al.), Application Lifecycle Management and IT Governance.

Before joining Serena Software (formerly Intersolv and Merant), Mahesh worked with Datapro and NIIT, a major Systems Integrator in India, where he was supporting multiple projects. He has worked in various capacities such as Team Leader, Consulting Manager, Technical Manager and Regional Manager prior to this. He has over 14 years of IT experience in all.

Mahesh holds a Bachelor degree in Statistics and a Master of Science in Strategic Business and IT. Furthermore, he also holds two Post—Graduate diplomas in Information Technology, with certifications from Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase and Lotus Notes.