Can I Really Do This?
As I was writing this book, one of my reviewers asked, “Can people really do this? What if their senior management has no clue? What if their middle management has no clue?”
Yes. You can do this. You can do this if your senior management has no strategic plan and doesn’t know about project portfolio management. You can do this even if your middle management has no clue. Look at what you are able to manage, and use the portfolio to provide direction to your team, finish projects, increase your capacity, and provide better answers to your managers.
You can manage the project portfolio at your level of influence. You can work in timeboxes, finishing features, completing chunks of work. Or you can limit the work in progress ...
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