Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

What a Project Portfolio Is

The portfolio shows the ranking of your committed projects. You make these decisions evaluating each project against each other. In a sense, the portfolio is a Big Visible Chart, which helps a project team see their relevant information all in one place. You can use your project portfolio to show everyone what the organization is working on, and what the teams do not work on.

Agile Approaches Help Project Portfolio Management

If everyone in your organization (senior managers, middle managers, technical leads, functional managers, and project managers) is wedded to a serial life cycle (phase-gate or waterfall, where people work in their functions as opposed to working by feature) and no one is willing to consider ...