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We are delighted to publish our Autumn 2009 bulletin which provides news and information on the latest topics affecting project management today.

Finding the right balance: “Show me your portfolio and I’ll show you your strategy”. How much better it would be if the strategy drove the portfolio content so that you could “show me your strategy” and from it I could describe what projects I would find in your portfolio!

Keeping pace with the online race: As the Open University (OU) celebrates its 40th anniversary, it has become the UK’s largest university, teaching almost 200,000 students each year. Its immense success has, in recent years, been to a large degree based on its advanced ability in online technology development. So it was only natural that when the OU embarked on a project to review and refresh its in-house project and programme management methodology it wanted to support it by a ‘best in class’ online project management resource. Rather than reinvent the wheel they turned to partnering with CITI.

Navigating the hurdles surrounding the 2012 Olympics: With 2009 as the mid-point in staging the London 2012 Olympics, now is a good time to review how the complexity of such an initiative is being managed. What was described in 2005 as a project — and still thought of in those terms by many — has correctly become a mixture of portfolios, programmes and projects.