Chapter 1Meet Your Project Portfolio

Your customers want your products to be filled with great features that are well-tested and run smoothly. They don’t care about your projects, and they certainly don’t care about your portfolio. Your customers care about your products.

Keep that in mind as you work with your project portfolio. The portfolio is not an end—it’s a means. Think of your portfolio as a pipeline of potential work.

You will use your project portfolio to help you make the right decisions to release valuable products frequently enough to fulfill your customers’ needs. The best way to do this is to use a lean and agile approach to your projects and to your project portfolio.

In this chapter I’ll introduce you to what a project ...

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