Manage Your Project Portfolio

Preface

So many things can bring a project to its knees. Maybe there’s too much multitasking…or so much technical debt that the project team can’t make progress on the current release…or so many emergency projects that emergencies have become normal…or so many high-priority projects that no one knows which to work on first.

Sure, there are other things that could be a problem: technical staff estimations are way off, your major competitor just released a huge update and your project won’t be ready for another six months, the technical challenges of testing (or writing or developing) are more than your testers (or writers or developers) can manage, the project needs more machines or memory or disk drives…and the list goes on. But if you dig ...