Chapter 4Evaluate Your Projects
Once you have collected all your work into a draft portfolio, you’ll evaluate each project or program. For the purposes of managing the project portfolio, treat your programs and projects in the same way. You don’t have to do anything special to evaluate programs.
It’s difficult to decide which work is most valuable and which work should be done first, so separate those decisions. The first time you organize your work into a portfolio, you don’t have to make the ranking decision. Your very first decision is about whether you want to commit to this project, kill the project, or transform the project in some way before continuing.
Resist the temptation to say “I want to do this project first” or third or seventh ...
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