Welcome to 2025!
It’s an exciting year for the PMO and strategy office –gaining more responsibility, and driving strategical impact and therefore becoming more critical than ever.
So, how do you stay on top of trends and lead your organization towards the future with great processes and healthy portfolios?
In this blog post, we cover Projectum’s top predictions for trends in portfolio management in 2025. From a brand-new way of looking at portfolio management, to the rising importance of data in the context of AI, 2025 promises to be a fast-paced year for the PMO!
Most organizations do more than just classic PPM: projects and portfolio management. This could be agile epics that exist along waterfall projects that depend on operational tasks – you need to keep track of it all.
Increasingly, the different types of projects interplay and deliver to each other, making it difficult to separate process from project. Everything is connected – and the management of it is too.
Enter xPM.
xPM covers anything portfolio management, where the x is the variable where you can insert any type of work. Rather than looking at individual types of work, like projects, ideas, epics, etc, xPM starts with the organization’s operation model.
xPM is a way of thinking.
With xPM, you design tailormade processes for the organization, capturing data, and elevating reporting.
2025 is the year of tailormade, scalable processes that are adjusted in a rhythm that’s right for your organization with just the right level of governance to gain insights for data-driven decision-making
xPM takes the individual organization’s operational model into account, designing tailormade processes and data management.
Right now, AI is moving faster than your processes. While it’s highly recommended to incorporate AI into your organizational processes, it’s not possible to do it all up front.
That’s why you’ve got employees. Your employees are keyed into their specific challenges and issues, and they might be the first to spot where new technology can benefit their work, whether by speeding it up, providing more insights, or giving it a healthy dose of creativity.
Allow your teams to play and experiment with new tools, even if the need isn’t obvious yet it helps fuel adoption and down the road real value can be gained. The experimentation keeps your employees thinking analytically in terms of finding new solution. It’s a guaranteed win-win.
We’ve said it before, AI isn’t just about doing the same thing faster. It’s the potential for disrupting your business and maximizing value. For every process, tool, and function, ask yourself if it’s possible to change the way it’s done. Are the outcomes necessary? Can we do this in fewer steps? Are we imagining the full scope of possibilities?
AI shifts the way everything works – and this is the perfect stage to evaluate the shift and ensure you get the full benefits. AI is still in its infancy but it’s already changed the way we work. As an organization you should face the change head on. Creating new processes and experimenting with tools put you in charge of these changes – that’s what will get you ready for the full power of AI.
With the advent of AI, data is more important than ever. Both in terms of abundance and in terms of quality. It’s what AI gets its information from.
But great data doesn’t just appear on its own.
Every company should have a solid data foundation in place, to set yourself up for quality insights with AI as well as heightening the quality in AI-generated output.
Ensuring great data quality is more than just input fields. Communicating the value of data to the people providing it can take you a long way. Even better is making sure that the value provides value to the people providing it. Giving them the full value of AI based on their own data will lead to better work and better data quality.
Data doesn’t just feed reports – it’s a tool for daily work AND strategic decision-making. Build data analysis and evaluation skills within your team. The better your data, the clearer your decisions.
2025 is the year where AI should go from being a shiny unknown to a well-used tool in your toolbox. In order to ensure the success, having your organizational processes and governance in place is crucial. 2025 is the year the PMO moves beyond PPM and into xPM, creating a more streamlined organization and enabling and strategic decision-making.
The theme of unity is strong: whether tool or process, in 2025, you should move away from small individual efforts to a company wide effort that transforms your organization.
