Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

Create a Holistic Perspective of All the Work

When each group has a project portfolio, you can see them. And the portfolios might not be coherent across the organization, especially when everyone has made their own decisions.

At this point, leave the decisions alone. Your first role is to make the information transparent.

Show the Work Now

I recommend you gather each product line or business unit’s representatives in a large room with enough wall space to show everyone what’s going on. Ask each business unit to provide a large poster of their quarter’s plan. The poster should be about four feet by six feet, so everyone can see one quarter’s work in large-enough lettering.

I ask people to post their boards. I ask one person from each business ...