Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

How to Define a Mission When No One Else Will

I’ve worked with senior managers and technical leads who worked in organizations that did not have a mission or a strategy. Sometimes those organizations grew quickly and had not paid attention to strategic planning. Sometimes, they suffered from a leadership vacuum at the top, such as no CEO. In any case, your organization doesn’t have a mission. But without a mission, you or your managers can’t decide what is most important. To protect your team and accomplish anything, you will need to decide. You can use the portfolio and generate a mission based on the work you think is most valuable to the organization.

Make sure you bucket the information as in ​Derive Your Mission from Your Work​. Now, ...