Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

Chapter 11Evolve Your Portfolio

When you shift the focus from “project” to “running, tested features,” you’ll change what your project staff works on. Instead of planning for the future, they plan for the now—to get to “done,” whatever that means for their project.

You’ll find that the management focus changes as well. The way you use and manage your portfolio will be different. You’ll begin to apply a lean approach. Lean approaches work well when you’re having trouble deciding which project is number one. With lean, you don’t have to know about projects; you only need to rank features.

Instead of having to manage the relative ranking of projects, you can manage the portfolio as a backlog of related features. All you need to know is the ...