Your Project Portfolio Is an Indicator of Your Organization’s Overall Health

There are plenty of indicators of a product development organization’s overall health. For the purposes of the project portfolio, you only need to look at the backlog of projects.

Healthy organizations have a number of high-demand projects. Once they have passed the startup point, they have several, if not many, projects. A healthy organization with an actionable mission has too many projects to do and has to decide among them.

If you have many projects you never finish, many projects in your parking lot you never remove, or no high-demand projects, then your organization is not healthy. Your mission may not be specific enough, or you may not know how to finish ...

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