- 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
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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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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, 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.
She is the author of these books:
- Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
- Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit
- Modern Management Made Easy triad: Manage Yourself, Lead and Serve Others, Lead an Innovative Organization
- Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
- Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
- From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver (with Mark Kilby)
- Create Your Successful Agile Project
- Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
- Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule
- Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding The Real Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
- Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
- Manage Your Job Search
- Hiring Geeks That Fit
- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd ed.
- The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)
- Corrective Action for the Software Industry (with Denise Robitaille)
In addition, she is a contributor to:
For fiction:
- Sometime in Winter (a novella)
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