Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
© 2009
Johanna Rothman
Feel as
if you can't get anything done? More
projects than time to do them? Crises out the wazoo? Then it's time to
consider
another approach: managing your project portfolio. You can organize
your
projects and and evaluate them without getting buried under a mountain
of
statistics.
Johanna
will discuss how to collect all your
work, decide which projects you should do first, second—and never.
You’ll see
how lean and agile approaches fit managing the project portfolio and
how they
make it easy. We’ll discuss how to tie your work to your organization’s
mission
and show your board, your managers, and your staff what you can
accomplish and
when. You’ll get a better view of the work you have, and learn how to
make
those difficult decisions, ensuring that all your strength is focused
where it
needs to be.
Speaker Bio
Johanna Rothman helps leaders solve problems and seize opportunities. She consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management.
Johanna publishes The Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter and podcast, and writes two blogs: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People. She is the author of several books:
- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
- Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)
- Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People
- Corrective Action for the Software Industry (with Denise Robitaille)