Spreading your organization’s precious resources thinly over too many active projects is a recipe for lots of disappointment. It’s better to do fewer projects well by concentrating effort on them, even if that means fewer projects.
An effective portfolio manager is like an air traffic controller, ensuring that all projects in the portfolio are monitored and managed together.
Facilitators use the consolidation technique to intentionally build up a series of small agreements, like a bricklayer laying a sturdy foundation brick by brick and layer by layer.
We’ve all suffered through bad meetings. We all know the standard list of things to do to make them better. And yet they persist, or perhaps have gotten worse with […]
Dr. Katrina Foxton at MicroBiomics – a rising company in the biotech sector – knows her team is highly talented. Yet on project after project she sees them fall into the same pitfalls. Katrina wonders, “Why can’t they learn?” Here’s a technique I use to make team learning fast and easy.
Managing projects as a portfolio helps ensure alignment, just as flying in formation helps birds stay on course, avoid collisions, and conserve energy.
Effective portfolio management puts people front and center. Here are some ideas to stay focused on people.
This picture shows one of my favorite analogies for how portfolio management, project management, and strategy development should fit together.
I show clients how to create thriving projects and teams that get essential work done better. This blog is about projects and the teams that do them.
Research shows that different people learn in different ways. When you understand what learning style works best for the person you are helping, you can tune your approach to be more effective.