Project Portfolio Tips
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Project Portfolio Tips

Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish

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Are you working on projects you suspect you shouldn’t be? Are you multitasking? Are you out of ideas as to what to do?

It’s time to manage your project portfolio. These twelve ideas will prompt you to consider more ideas about how to manage your project portfolio. Learn how to ask the zeroth question, how to stop doing the work you shouldn’t do, and how to find some breathing room.

Use these ideas to start managing your project portfolio, instead of multitasking or “trying” to do it all. Take back your days and your projects.

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Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 20 books and hundreds of articles. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

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Table of Contents

  • 1. Always Ask the Zeroth Question About Your Projects
  • 2. Are You Being Guilted Into Doing More?
  • 3. Are Your Shoulds Driving Your Decisions?
  • 4. Focus On One Thing at a Time
  • 5. How Effective Are You?
  • 6. When Your Projects Are a Program and You Can’t Do All the Work, Part 1
  • 7. When You Still Can’t Do All the Work, Part 2
  • 8. Park Projects You Can’t Staff, For Now
  • 9. Kill Canceled Projects
  • 10. How Many Emergency Projects Do You Have?
  • 11. Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work
  • 12. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Should you Commit, Kill, or Transform?
    • Make a Real Commitment
    • Kill Projects When Necessary
    • Transform Projects That Don’t Make Enough Progress
    • Decide, Don’t Multitask
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