The timing of a good decision is like a Goldilocks moment – not too soon and not too late. A technique called the last responsible moment can help you identify when that is.
Category Archives: Portfolios
How to Manage a Portfolio: Separate the Best from the Rest
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.
How to Manage a Portfolio: Air Traffic Control
An effective portfolio manager is like an air traffic controller, ensuring that all projects in the portfolio are monitored and managed together.
How to Manage a Portfolio: All Together Now
Managing projects as a portfolio helps ensure alignment, just as flying in formation helps birds stay on course, avoid collisions, and conserve energy.
How to Manage a Portfolio: Put People First
Effective portfolio management puts people front and center. Here are some ideas to stay focused on people.
If Projects Were a Fleet of Ships
This picture shows one of my favorite analogies for how portfolio management, project management, and strategy development should fit together.
It’s All About Projects
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.
Nine PMO Success Tips from Senior Leaders
Successful project management offices (PMOs) are too rare. Here are nine tips from senior managers who have built a flourishing PMO that delivers real value.
Pint-size Portfolio Management
This simple dashboard for a small portfolio it is a great way to communicate, monitor status, and encourage good discussions about what projects can or should be undertaken.
Poor project portfolio management (PPM) criteria
Sorry for being silent this fall. I’ve been teaching my class in OHSU’s MBA in Healthcare Management program, and it took just about every minute I could find. During the class segment on project portfolio management, we read the article “Evaluation Methods for Hospital Projects” by Buelow, Zuckweiler, and Rosacker. This article looks at how […]