Manage Your Project Portfolio

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Announcement: Project Portfolio Book is in Beta

The project portfolio book is in Beta! For those of you who have not heard of a Pragmatic Bookshelf Beta book, here are the limitations: It’s not laid out correctly Although I’ve looked for typos, I have not discovered and fixed them all The bibliography is not yet included (it will be on later betas, […]

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Serial Monogamy Project Management

I ran into Dan North at the Agile conference today, and explained a little about the project portfolio book. I’m writing it because I have a number of clients who are having trouble breaking the multitasking habit (working on more than one project at one time.) Dan said, “Oh, you want them to commit to

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My Outlines Are Chapter Backlogs

I’ve been steadily writing the project portfolio management book this summer, and was describing what I do to Steve Freeman someone today. (I’m at the Agile 2008 conference.) I explained that I had a list of things I thought should be in a chapter, but it wasn’t a real outline the way other people outline.

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Examples in Writing

Dwayne’s comment on my post, Architecting from the Features, made me realize I hadn’t provided an example of how I’d changed the book. Head slap on me! One of my rules of writing, which I use when I’m revising because I rarely remember as I’m writing the first draft, is to explain what I’m writing

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Architecting from the Features

I’m writing the portfolio management book, and I just finished a whole big re-architecture. I’m so excited. I realize most people aren’t that excited about a rearchitecture :-), especially not of a book in progress. But I am, because I took my own advice. When I started writing the book, I had several partly done

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New Ventures: New Book on Project Portfolio Management

I was under the weather last week, and am finally well enough to think. I still have the raspy voice from coughing all week, but you can’t hear me. Since I worked out this morning, my brain is actually firing on all cylinders. I signed a contract with Pragmatic Bookshelf for my next book about

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