Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

Preface

You’ve decided you’re tired of the multitasking or the unending projects. You can’t staff every project. Your people are exhausted trying to finish “everything.” You have emergencies out the wazoo. You can’t predict when your teams can finish anything. You’re tired of not having the “right” people on the “right” projects—because you can no longer understand what is “right.”

It’s time to manage your project portfolio.

Project portfolio management is the way of organizing, seeing, and ranking the work your team, groups, business unit, or organization has to do. You don’t need difficult math. You don’t need anything from your project teams other than what they should be producing every day: running, tested features and a few metrics ...