All of your projects and programs make up your portfolio. But how much time you actually spend on your projects, and how much time do you spend responding to emergencies?
This book will introduce you to different ways of ordering all of the projects you are working on now, and help you figure out how to staff those projects–even when you’ve run out of project teams to do the work.
Once you learn to manage your portfolio better, you’ll avoid emergency “firedrills.” The trick is adopting lean and agile approaches to projects, whether they are software projects, projects that include hardware, or projects that depend on chunks of functionality from other suppliers.
You may be accustomed to spending time in meetings where you still don’t have the data you need to evaluate your projects. Here, with a few measures, you’ll be able to quickly evaluate each project and come to a decision quickly.
You’ll learn how to define your team’s, group’s, or department’s mission with none of the buzzwords that normally accompany a mission statement. Armed with the work and the mission, you can make those decisions that define the true leaders in the organization.
About the Author
Johanna Rothman helps leaders solve problems and seize opportunities. She consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management.
Johanna publishes The Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter and podcast, and writes two blogs: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People. She is the author of several books: – Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management – Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby) – Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People – Corrective Action for the Software Industry (with Denise Robitaille).
Book Details
- Paperback: 250 pages
- Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (August 19, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1934356298
- ISBN-13: 978-1934356296
- File Size: 3.7 MiB
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