Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

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• As you review each project collaboratively, make sure you ask again, “Should we do this project?” You do not need to rank a project that doesn’t have enough value to the organization to commit to it.

• Can you explain to other people how each staffed project moves the organization forward?

• Try ranking each project in your portfolio with points. Are you able to rank with points? If not, what is preventing you from ranking with points?

• Test that ranking by looking at the waste you are managing and your customers are managing. Is the ranking different?

• If you can’t rank in any other way, try double elimination, and see how people choose projects. Other people will choose projects based on their values, and it’s helpful for you to know ...