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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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Define an Actionable Mission for the Organization

A good mission is actionable: it provides guidance and boundaries for people to use as they work and as they select which work to do.

Your group’s mission might be something like “Develop and create high-performance computing systems.” But, if you have a sales department out of control, your development manager’s mission might be “Be the conscience of the sales department.” That manager explained, “We have to do enough prework to know whether we can deliver, in a reasonable amount of time, what sales wants to promise. We want to make it easy for them, so we work in short iterations and predict velocity from what we know.”

A test manager told me her group’s mission was “Assess the state of ...

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