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EPPM best practices include setting clear goals, establishing shared but flexible processes, connecting tools and data, securing executive support, rolling out EPPM in phases, and maintaining clear communication.

The 2025 Project and Portfolio Management Priorities Report found that 47 percent of PPM professionals said that standardized processes and integrated technology were critical for responding effectively to change. The report also found that 42 percent used a hybrid approach, combining Agile, Waterfall, and Lean methods to fit different kinds of work across the organization.

Here are some best practices and common pitfalls to avoid when implementing EPPM:

• Set Clear Goals: Define your goals and how you will measure them, as well as your investment criteria. Leaders use these to decide what projects to initiate, continue, delay, or stop. Avoid rolling out EPPM without clearly agreed-upon priorities. Teams will continue to compete for funding based on local needs rather than enterprise value.

• Create Shared but Flexible Processes: Use shared forms and standards for project requests, approvals, financial information, risks, and progress updates. Scale the level of review to the project’s size, cost, and risk.

  This doesn’t mean treating every project the same. A small, low-risk update should not go through the same processes or have the same stakeholders as larger transformations. Applying the same level of oversight to every project can create unnecessary delays and tempt teams to work outside the system.

• Connect Tools: Choose a platform or connected set of tools that brings together key information. Set common definitions for measures such as budget, capacity, milestone status, and expected benefits. When data remains in separate spreadsheets and department tools, reporting becomes manual, inconsistent, and difficult to trust.

  About 38 percent of the respondents in the PPM Priorities Report had to collect the information they needed from multiple teams, while 35 percent cited disconnected or inconsistent information as a barrier to making decisions.

• Get Executive Support: Senior leaders should formally authorize and support the EPPM program and rollout, clearly defining its scope and authority and using its information to make decisions. They should also be able to resolve conflicts between departments if they arise. Ensure that executive approval is active, not a one-time sign-off. If leaders do not continuously use the process, teams and departments may ignore shared rules.

• Roll Out EPPM in Phases: Begin with a small number of portfolios, test the process, improve the data and reporting, and then expand. Track a limited set of measures, such as strategic alignment, budget performance, delivery progress, resource demand, and realized benefits.

  Do not try to measure everything or standardize every department, workflow, and tool at once. A large first rollout can overwhelm users, and too many KPIs can obscure important information.

• Establish Communication Channels: Invest in communication, training, and feedback. Explain what is changing, why it matters, and how it affects each group. Train teams on new processes and tools, then use feedback and regular reviews to identify what is not working. Assuming that a new platform will automatically be adopted is risky.