Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

Who Needs to See What?

What data does your project portfolio need to show the different constituencies? Do you need to see

• The relative ranking of each project, so people know when they can interrupt others and when they should not?

• The unstaffed work, so people know what to not work on?

• The progress of the project through the organization?

• The organization’s WIP (work in progress) limits, so people know when it’s safe and not safe to consider more work?

• The project end date for a given project, so people can plan when to start another project or program?

Different people might need to see different views of the project portfolio. When I managed small teams or groups of people, I wanted to see the low-level perspective, as in ​See the High- ...