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Manage Your Project Portfolio
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Manage Your Project Portfolio

Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

Johanna Rothman
Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

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Aiden, a woebegone software developer, sits forlornly at his desk, wondering how to complete three recently assigned, top priority projects. Yesterday morning, the boss told him that the first project was due soon. At noon, the boss popped in to insist that the second one had to be completed immediately. At 5 p.m., the boss announced that Aiden should finish the third piece of work right away. Faced with these mutually exclusive, idiotic demands, Aiden stopped working, updated his résumé, surfed the Internet and played a little solitaire. In the software development world, this sad story is all too typical. The answer, according to software management consultant Johanna Rothman, is project portfolio management. Her book details the numerous benefits of this proven approach to project management. Although Rothman wrote this slightly repetitive guide specifically for the IT world – hence the jargon – anyone who regularly juggles an array of tasks with burning deadlines can pick up some useful fundamentals from her solid report. getAbstract recommends this savvy manual to software development managers, software engineers and related IT professionals, as well as project managers in other fields.

Take-Aways

  • Project portfolio management helps you finish your software projects on schedule.
  • You must understand your mission to make choices about prioritizing software projects.
  • Managers must select which projects to undertake and which to avoid.

About the Author

Johanna Rothman is the president of Rothman Consulting Group, a software management consulting firm. She writes and lectures on project management and high-tech product development.

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