Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Pragmatic Manager, Vol. 6#3, You Can’t Do All the Work. Now What? October 21 , 2009 In This Issue: You Can’t Do All the Work. Now What? Manage Your Project Portfolio Only 6 Spots Left at AYE You Can’t Do All the Work. Now What? In the last Pragmatic Manager newsletter, […]
I’m slow to post this one: Giordano Scalzo’s lovely review of Manage Your Project Portfolio is up at Reviewing Manage Your Project Portfolio. I love the part where he says: This book is a must read for everyone involved in IT world, from junior developer ’till C-level executive. As usual, Johanna Rothman uses a very
See Claude Emond’s review of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects. You have to register (free), and you can say “don’t email me anything” 🙂 Thanks, Claude!
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Pragmatic Manager, Vol. 6#2, When Your Projects Are a Program Sept 1 , 2009 In This Issue:When Your Projects Are a Program Manage Your Project Portfolio is Shipping AYE is Coming! AYE is Coming! When Your Projects Are a Program I was supposed to start coaching with a project manager,
It’s a big week for me: Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects is shipping. In the approximately 24 hours I was home, I got to touch the first books. When I proposed this book, I wanted it to be 175 pages: long enough to be useful, but not so long
I am very fortunate. Daniel Steinberg was my technical editor for Manage It! and Manage Your Project Portfolio. We’ve learned how to work together well, and we enjoy working with each other. (Well, I love working with him 🙂 I suspect know sometimes I’m a huge pain.) We’d never met, and this past weeekend, we
Manage Your Project Portfolio is at the printer. If the planets align, and the printer doesn’t run out of paper, and if Murphy stays away from this project, the books will start shipping the week of Aug 10. YIPPEEE!!!!! I’m just a little excited, can you tell?? Back in March, when the shipment seemed far
I’m in some variety of “final” editing on Manage Your Project Portfolio. I’ve reorganized the first chapter into two chapters, rewritten a bunch of things, added a new zero-sum game, and have managed to tighten up some of the writing. I’ve received great feedback from Esther, Don, and Dwayne that I’m still incorporating into my
I’m in what might be close-to-final editing on Manage Your Project Portfolio. Not everyone understands all my references for things. For example, one of my reviewers did not know what a backlog is. Since I hope that managers of every level will read this book, it’s entirely possible they may not all know what a
I’m trying to clean up the project portfolio management book for technical review, and I realized the other night (well, morning, when I woke up), that I’d missed explaining a key idea. We all work on several kinds of projects: Projects that maintain the organization, the kind we need to run. These projects “keep the