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Upcoming Webinar on Project Portfolio Management

I’m doing a webinar with Rally on March 7. It’s about selecting the Number One project in your project portfolio. Please join me and Isaac Montgomery, who will attempt to rein me in (ha!) for What’s the Number One Project in Your Project Portfolio? on March 7. Here’s an excerpt from the description: You have […]

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Should you Commit, Kill, or Transform? Dear JR: “I’m on three different must-do projects. I can’t tell if they are all really “must do.” If they were, wouldn’t my managers decide which one I should be on?” – A Harried Developer Dear Harried Developer: If you’re in this position, as a developer,

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Selecting a Ranking Method for Your Project Portfolio

One of the most difficult parts of project portfolio management is deciding how to rank the projects — that is, determining which projects should be done now, later, and, most importantly, never. There are several ways to rank a project portfolio. Each is useful in specific situations and not so useful in others. But all

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Always Ask the Zeroth Question About Your Projects

Vol 9, #3: Always Ask the Zeroth Question About Your Projects Jan 17, 2012,    ISSN: 2164-1196 Sometimes, you wonder why you are doing this project. You spend all this time on it, you’re sure there isn’t much value from the project, and still, the project is on the top of your manager’s list. There’s

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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 chair is big, I’m not so short. How many times do you think I have

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Are You Being Guilted Into Doing More?

Are You Being Guilted Into Doing More? Ned, a development manager I know, looked exhausted. “I’m trying to keep development going, and support pre-sales, and support post-sales, and support customer support. When is my group supposed to have time to do development??” He has a point. If his team does all the nice-guy work, they

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Are Your “Shoulds” Driving Your Decisions?

Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 9, #1: Are Your “Shoulds” Driving Your Decisions? Jan 6, 2012                                                                                      ISSN: 2164-1196 In This Issue:

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