July 23 2024 at 04:58AM
The review: Manage your Project Portfolio
Manage your project portfolio.
Increase your capacity. Finish more projects.
Johanna Rothman
This month, we are bringing you a title that will substantially enrich your ways of working. Portfolio management is a core competence for many project managers, and “Manage your Project Portfolio” explains how to do it effectively.
Johanna Rothman takes a pragmatic approach to explain to us the way to manage a project portfolio. With small steps, chapter after chapter, she describes a governance system that could be used in any company to manage the project portfolio.
You will not find abstract theories in the book to justify strategic projects, nor will you discover the secrets for funding always the most profitable ones. However, you will get many ideas to visualize projects, rank them, choose the suitable period for reviewing the portfolio, or practical tips to conduct portfolio review meetings. Workable things that will help you day after day if you manage portfolios. At the end of every chapter, there are suggestions for putting the teachings into practice.
The book's foundation is the agile principles. The author emphasizes how to display information or the importance of working incrementally and keeping the portfolio as adaptable as possible. This characteristic makes the content especially appropriate for the software industry, but many ideas are applicable in broader contexts.
If you are busy managing portfolios, or you will start to do it, this book will be helpful for you.
Please enjoy it!
Manage your Project Portfolio.
ISBN- 9781934356296; 250 pgs
Johanna Rothman is an American author and blogger. She has written several books about project management and worked as a consultant, offering pragmatic advice to leaders and managers.
