Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

Organize to Commit

Work at the highest span of influence you can in the organization, and you will maximize the return your work brings to the organization. Avoid optimizing decisions at the lowest possible level, maximizing your group’s return instead of maximizing the organization’s return. Instead, optimize the decisions for the organization.

Maximize Value for the Organization, Not Our Departments

by Tony, Director, Software Development and Joyce, Director, Software Quality

Tony, Director, Software Development and Joyce, Director, Software Quality

As directors, we each have two primary responsibilities: to make sure our groups are producing at the highest level of capacity and to build that capacity. But we had problems with each other, ...