Now Try This

  • Review all the projects in your portfolio. Based on how you are organized (functional, matrix, project), how will you need to collaborate? Decide whether you need to collaborate just with your manager, with your peers and a manager (or two), or with the rest of a senior management team.

  • Review how your projects are interrelated. If they are, should they be programs of some sort? If so, which kind of program?

  • If you have rethought how your projects fit together in programs, make sure you reevaluate the ranking of each project and program.

Footnotes

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There are other barriers to collaboration, but trust is a necessary prerequisite.

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