Behind Closed Doors

Managing the Project Portfolio

Once you’ve established what work your group should be doing, lay out a plan that shows how the people in your group are going to accomplish the work.Project Portfolio Management 101 [Rot01]

Senior management supplies strategic goals to the organization. Each layer of management below refines those strategic goals into successively more tactical goals and actions. In hierarchies, each level supports the goals of the level above.

Your job as a manager is to match the work your group does to the mission of your group and ensure it supports your manager’s goals.

Prioritize the work.

Staff the most strategically important work first. The strategic work may be the work that keeps you from fire fighting, or it may ...