Manage Your Project Portfolio

Now Try This

• Are you concerned about using a portfolio to organize your projects? If so, write down why you’re concerned. Keep that list in front of you as you read this book, so you can address your concerns.

• Is there any reason you would not want the transparency a project portfolio provides you? Keep those reasons in mind as you read the next chapter.

• If you work on projects with a serial life cycle, see whether there are natural completion points where you can assess the project state for the purposes of a project portfolio.

Footnotes

[1]	Notice that all of these portfolio pictures start and end neatly on month or week boundaries. That’s not because portfolios work like that but because it’s easier to show the month or week boundary in ...