Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

Define Your Principle so You Can Collaborate

You’ll be using collaboration, influence, and negotiation to arrive at a portfolio that will fit the needs of the organization.

As you prepare for this discussion, make sure you know why you ranked each project as you did—the principle behind your ranking. That information provides you with the foundation for collaboration, because you can use that principle to articulate how you think you can arrive at the team’s common goal. Being able to discuss your principle behind the ranking will help you with the portfolio collaboration.

Context Defines My Principle

by Dave, Director, Software Development

Dave

I’m at a startup now, and the principle behind all my portfolio decisions is this: How do we make ...