Project Portfolio Management
Experts by Design.
Our mission is to provide organisations
with the strategic structure and operational control required to prioritise, govern, and deliver their project portfolios with confidence.
We help organisations understand what truly matters to their business, align investments to strategic outcomes, and give executives clear decision-making control across their portfolio. Through the design, configuration and implementation of PPM solutions we unify strategy, delivery, governance, and technology into a single portfolio capability — combining structured maturity assessments, portfolio design, tool configuration ,and actionable reporting so leaders can optimise investment decisions, maintain control, and maximise value from their project landscape.
Where PPM Strategy Meets PPM Software
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is the discipline that enables organisations to select, prioritise, and govern their projects in alignment with strategic objectives. It provides the structure and decision-making framework required to ensure that investments are focused on the initiatives that deliver the greatest value.
PPM software brings this discipline to life. It provides the digital capability to plan, manage, and monitor the entire project portfolio, offering real-time visibility, structured governance, and data-driven insight across all initiatives.
At Hummingbird Solutions, we bring these two elements together.
We combine deep PPM expertise with leading PPM software platforms to design, implement, and optimise portfolio environments that reflect how your organisation actually operates. The result is a fully integrated capability where strategy, execution, and technology work as one.
By unifying PPM strategy and PPM software, we enable leaders to gain clarity across their portfolio, make confident investment decisions, manage risk proactively, and maximise the value delivered from every project.
How we can help.
Hummingbird Solutions brings deep expertise in Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and Planview to design, configure, and implement solutions that work for your organisation.
We go beyond successful deployment—ensuring strong adoption, delivering ongoing enhancements, and continuously evolving your platform in line with your organisation’s growing maturity.
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At Hummingbird we have developed, through several successful Portfolio Implementation programs, both operated locally within Australia and globally, a well-defined methodology for the Implementation of PPM Platforms. This structure ensures that this initiative will deliver a complete and cohesive solution through the creation of a set of well defined “stages” and project streams. The stages are essentially logically clustered initiatives enabling a focused delivery of a full program of work required to achieve the desired (and expected) end-state solution for our clients. These stages are aligned to our client’s requirements and priorities.
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Hummingbird offers ongoing Managed Services support as well as for other associated applications (e.g., Planview Portfolios, ProjectPlace, etc.) that are implemented during the setup and configuration of Platform. Hummingbird establishes and implements a Client Care Plan that integrates the necessary support and management functions tailored to the specific requirements of the implemented Portfolios platform.
The Portfolios platform, like any other software product, necessitates continuous operational support and management from both application functionality and technical perspectives.
The support services provided encompass the following functions:
• Platform Management
• Service Administration and Service Requests (Enhancements)
• Learning Management System (LMS) and training services
The Managed Reporting and Analytics Service is the additional specialised layer to the managed services focused on turning data into value, with the following goals:
• Maintain and evolve the reporting ecosystem.
• Development of new reports and dashboards.
• Providing specific and focuses dashboards and reports across all the organisation
• Provide expert insight, not just reporting delivery.
• Enable ongoing measurement of strategic outcomes.
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Assessment of your current state of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) processes and/or Planview Portfolios configuration, understanding of any current challenges and issues, and mapping out a desired future state and roadmap
Our Core Services
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PPM Enablement
Portfolio Implementation programs, both operated locally within Australia and globally, a well-defined methodology for the Implementation of Planview’s Project Management Platforms. At Hummingbird, we have developed, through several successful Portfolio Implementation programs, a well-defined methodology for the Implementation of PPM Platforms. This structure ensures that this initiative will deliver a complete and cohesive solution through the creation of a set of well defined “stages” and project streams
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Managed Services
Hummingbird delivers comprehensive Managed Services, providing operational and functional support to the suite of Planview products. Establishing a structured Client Care Plan tailored to each deployment’s operational requirements. This framework addresses the continuous technical management and functional administration essential to maintaining software performance. Our managed services portfolio encompasses three core pillars, platform management and enhancement, service administration and learning services.
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Reporting and Analytics Service
The Managed Reporting and Analytics Service is a specialized extension of our core Portfolios Managed Services. It is designed to transform complex enterprise data into strategic value, providing leadership teams with the actionable intelligence required to make data-driven decisions.
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Data and Integration Services
Our Data and Integration Service enables organisations to seamlessly connect PPM Platforms with disparate applications, databases, and enterprise systems to consolidate critical information into a single, unified view.
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Assessment Services
The Project Portfolio Assessment Service delivers an objective evaluation of your project portfolio's operational health, benchmarking your current-state capabilities against industry best practices and empirical case studies.
Acting as your organization's 'Route to Green,' this comprehensive business advisory service instils operational rigor, enhances delivery performance, and optimizes project services execution.
The Hummingbird Difference:
The Hummingbird difference lies in our dual-layered expertise: we combine deep technical knowledge in deploying Planview PPM solutions with hands-on, certified excellence both in Project Management experience and governance.
Hummingbird combines certified technical experts who successfully configure, deploy, and optimise complex PPM ecosystems, with seasoned Project Managers SME’s and Business Analysts who understand real-world delivery, governance, and client aligned requirements.