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: Projects
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.
Why Can’t We Learn?
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.
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.
My Favorite Reference about Project Management
Get this book for people on your team who run projects or are on project teams. It deserves a place on your reference shelf for the times when someone asks you for guidance.
Projects Displace Operations
Use this article when you want to talk with your fellow leaders about why it’s important to invest in project management.