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Category Archives: portfolio management
Gold, Silver, Bronze Comparison for the Project Portfolio Requires Collaboration
When I was in Brazil teaching the project portfolio workshop, one of the participants explained that his organization sometimes did a form of gold/silver/bronze comparison among the projects. Here’s how it works. Everyone wrote their project names on stickies. The … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, collaboration, lean, Manage Your Project Portfolio, project ranking
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Visualizing All the Work in Your Project Portfolio
I’ve been talking to a variety of potential clients about their project portfolios. One of the big problems is how to see all the work. Some of these folks have multiple kinds of projects, so they want to show their … Continue reading
Project Portfolio Management Workshop in Sao Paulo, Sept 10-11, 2012
I’ll be in Sao Paulo, Brazil, teaching project portfolio management, Sept 10-11, 2012. I’ll be teaching in English. I suspect that the class will simulate and interact with each other in Portugese! I’ll be the one who is left out. … Continue reading
Webinar July 24, Noon EDT Agile Project Project Portfolio Management
I’m speaking on July 24 for the PMI Agile community of practice, delivering a webinar at noon Eastern about Agile Project Portfolio Management. If you are a PMI member, it is free. Please do join us!
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Agile Project Portfolio Management Video Posted
The very nice folks from Øredev 2011 have posted my video about agile project portfolio management. You might not think that Malmo, Sweden in November would be a hot time, but for me it was! I met great people and … Continue reading
Pragmatic Manager and InfoQ Video Posted
I have posted last week’s Pragmatic Manager, Are You Being Guilted Into Doing More?. At Agile 2011, I had a great video conversation with Shane Hastie about agile project portfolio management. The chair is big, I’m not so short. The … Continue reading
Pragmatic Manager Posted: Are Your Shoulds Driving Your Decisions
I posted my most recent Pragmatic Manager: Are Your “Shoulds” Driving Your Decisions? Yes, in case you couldn’t tell, I am doing a series on project portfolio management, so that you do take a look at my Peer Project Portfolio … Continue reading
Announcing Peer Project Portfolio Coaching
If you missed my most recent Pragmatic Manager newsletter, Focus on One Thing at a Time, it’s posted. In it, I ranted about the delays of multitasking and introduced a new service: Peer Project Portfolio Coaching. I keep seeing people … Continue reading
Don’t Start a Project with Scarcity
I was talking with a project manager the other day. “I don’t have enough developers. I don’t have enough testers. I don’t have enough UI people. What am I going to do?” I said, “Well, you have enough people if … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, project management, project portfolio management
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Catching Up With my Email Newsletter
I have been delinquent for those of you who subscribe to my email newsletter. I have not published one since April. On the other hand, I just posted Park Projects You Can’t Staff, For Now. The next newsletter is scheduled … Continue reading
