Category Archives: lean

Reducing Your Own WIP and Yves’ Who Is Series

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Johanna Rothman

As a business owner, I have to remember to manage my own WIP, work in progress. Yves Hanoulle recently wrote about his own encounter with his wip limits, and what he decided to do it with respect to his “Who … Continue reading →

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Serial Monogamy Project Participation

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Johanna Rothman

I’ve been writing a bunch of articles about project portfolio management, exploring the ideas about committing to projects. (See Serial Monogamy Project Management for some initial thoughts.) But, as I’ve been working with clients and writing more, I’ve been realizing … Continue reading →

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Meetings, Project Portfolio, and Lean

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Johanna Rothman

I’ve been writing pieces of the project portfolio book, and was wondering how to explain how managers get caught in the trap of having too many projects. Then I read Joe Ely’s Minimizing Work-in-Process for Knowledge Workers, and had an … Continue reading →

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