Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

Scale with Care

I recommend each group learn how to manage their project portfolio. Then a business unit composed of groups learn how to manage their portfolio. Once each business unit learns, bring the business units together.

You will gain most of the value at the business unit level once the leaders talk and work with each other.

If you are a senior manager, work on your managers’ collaboration skills and goals so they work together. When people have the interpersonal skills and common goals, they can roll up/down the project portfolio. Make sure you do not have incentives that destroy your managers’ abilities to discuss and see common goals. That will be more valuable than rolling up/down the project portfolio.