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Join us for a one-day workshop for Federal Civilian and Defense budget, program, mission and strategy leaders.
Budget drift and strategic drift — the kind that eventually shows up as a critical missed milestone or a mission capability gap — don't start with a scorecard. They start with how demand enters an organization and how trade-off decisions get made once it's there. When intake is informal and prioritization runs on seniority or urgency instead of a repeatable process, investment decisions get disconnected from the mission outcomes they're supposed to drive.
That gap compounds under pressures unique to public sector and defense agencies: multi-year funding cycles (like PPBE) that lag behind fast-moving operational realities, a steady stream of new mandates and operational directives competing for the same limited capacity and leadership turnover that resets institutional memory before a decision framework can take hold.
For any organization charged with managing cost, schedule and performance, this isn't just an IT problem — it is a mission readiness problem. This workshop spends the full day exploring best practices. The morning builds the end-to-end view of what a mature Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) practice looks like, from demand intake through delivery. The afternoon gets practical: governing intake and trade-off decisions day-to-day and gaining the visibility into active work needed to shift from late interventions to early course corrections that keep spend aligned to strategic outcomes.
Register today: https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/821411-community
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Starts:
Tue, Nov 10, 2026 05:30 AM PST
Ends:
Tue, Nov 10, 2026 02:00 PM PST
ServiceNow Federal Team, Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA, USA