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When Your Projects Are a Program

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, […]

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A Personal Retrospective on the Agile 2009 Conference

Last week was the Agile 2009 Conference. It was great. The stage producers and their teams had selected a phenomenal program, Elastic Communications outdid themselves as the event planners, and the volunteers helped everything proceed smoothly. Alistair Cockburn and Jared Spo0l delivered fabulous keynotes. Here’s my personal retrospective: What stood out for me: the sheer

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Manage Your Project Portfolio is Shipping

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

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No: Such a Difficult Word

Pat meets me in the lobby and walks me to the conference room for our 9 a.m. meeting. She yawns several times during our two-minute walk. She yawns a few more times before everyone else arrives. “Late night?” I ask. “They’re all late,” she replies. “I’m way overworked.” When I asked why, she says, “I’m

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Point Play

With effective project portfolio management, everyone knows which project is #1, which is #2, which is #3, and so on down the line. Then you commit to those projects in order, by making sure they have teams who can do the work required, that the projects have any other resources they need until you reevaluate

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Editing and Writing Are Different

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

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