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Manage Your Project Portfolio
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Manage Your Project Portfolio

by Johanna Rothman
August 2009
Beginner
210 pages
4h 54m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Management Changes When You Stabilize Something About Your Projects

Fixing something about your projects has a sobering effect on management. Once you’ve made the decision to fix a timebox, you can’t change it. You can’t reduce or increase the timebox duration without creating obstacles for the team, because you’ve destroyed their velocity as well as removed their ability to measure it. You can’t ask people to put in overtime for the same reason. Once you’ve prevented a team from measuring their velocity, they have no idea where they are, and neither do you. You can’t ask for multitasking either. You can’t keep arbitrarily large projects in the pipeline without breaking them down into their component parts of feature set chunks. (Not architectural ...

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