Manage Your Project Portfolio Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

Name: Manage Your Project Portfolio Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
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ISBN: 9781934356296

ISBN-10: 1934356298

ISBN-13: 9781934356296

Edition: 2009

Authors: Johanna Rothman

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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…

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 8/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

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…



Foreword



Foreword



Preface



Meet Your Project Portfolio



What a Project Portfolio is



See the High-and Low-Level Views



Now Try This



See Your Future



Managing with a Project Portfolio



Managing Without a Project Portfolio



What Are Your Emergency Projects?



Learn Approaches to the Project Portfolio



Why You Should Care About the Project Portfolio



Your Portfolio Reflects Your Influence Level



Now Try This



Create the First Draft of Your Portfolio



Know What Work to Collect



Is the Work a Project or a Program?



Organize Your Projects into Programs As Necessary



Organize the Portfolio



Using Tools to Manage a Portfolio



Now Try This



Evaluate Your Projects



Should We Do This Project at All?



Decide to Commit, Kill, or Transform the Project



Commit to a Project



Kill a Project



How to Kill a Project and Keep It Dead



Killing a Senior Manager's Pet Project



Kill Doomed Projects



Transform a Project



Now Try This



Rank the Portfolio



Never Rank Alone



Rank Order the Projects in the Portfolio Using Points



Leftover Points Provide Metadata



Rank the Projects by Risk



Use Your Organization's Context to Rank Projects



Who's Waiting for Your Projects to Be Completed?



Rank the Work by Your Products' Position in the Marketplace



Use Other Comparison Methods to Rank Your Projects



Don't Use ROI to Rank



Your Project Portfolio is an Indicator of Your Organization's Overall Health



Publish the Portfolio Ranking



Now Try This



Collaborate on the Portfolio



Organize to Commit



Build Trust



Prepare for Collaboration



Set the Stage for Collaboration



Facilitate the Portfolio Evaluation Meeting



How to Say No to More Work



Fund Projects Incrementally



Never Make a Big Commitment



Discover Barriers to Collaboration



Who Needs to Collaborate on the Portfolio?



Now Try This



Iterate on the Portfolio



Decide When to Review the Portfolio



Select an Iteration Length for Your Review Cycles



Defend the Portfolio from Attack



How to Decide If You Can't Change Life Cycles, Road Maps, or Budgets



Make Decisions as Late as Possible



Now Try This



Make Portfolio Decisions



Keep a Parking Lot of Projects



Conduct a Portfolio Evaluation Meeting



Conduct a Portfolio Evaluation at Least Quarterly to Start



Review Your Decisions



Now Try This



Evolve Your Portfolio



Lean Helps Your Evolve Your Portfolio Approach



Choose What to Stabilize



Stabilize the Timebox



Stabilize the Number of Work Items in Progress



Fix the Queue Length for a Team



When You Need to Fix Cost



Management Changes When You Stabilize Something About Your Projects



Now Try This



Measure the Essentials



Measure Value



What You Need to Measure About Your Projects



Measure Project Velocity: Current and Historical



Measure Cumulative Flow for the Project



Measure Obstacles Preventing the Team's Progress



Measure the Product Backlog Burndown Chart



Measure Run Rate and Other Cost Data, If Necessary



Don't Even Try to Measure Individual Productivity



What You Need to Measure About the Portfolio



Measure Capacity by Team, Not by Individual



People Finish More with Lean and Agile



Now Try This



Define Your Mission



Define the Business You are In



What Good is a Mission, Anyway?



Define an Actionable Mission for the Organization



Draft a Mission from Scratch



Brainstorm the Essentials of a Mission



Refine the Mission



Derive Your Mission from Your Work



How to Define a Mission When No One Else Will



Beware of the Mission Statement Traps



Test Your Mission



Make the Mission Real for Everyone



Now Try This



Start Somewhere...But Start



Glossary


Bibliography


Index