How to Decide If You Can’t Change Life Cycles, Road Maps, or Budgets
You might be working in an organization desperate to start project portfolio management. Not because they know about managing the portfolio, but because they can’t get anything done. You might be a first-level manager of some variety who wants to stop the multitasking madness.
If so, consider selecting a specific replanning period, such as every quarter. Quarterly portfolio management isn’t the One Ideal Time, but for people starting with a lean or agile approach, it might help projects deliver value earlier.
The problem with setting a quarterly planning and budgeting cycle is that you need your projects to deliver some finished set of features by the time you get to the ...
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