Manage Your Project Portfolio--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

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Manage Your Project Portfolio--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

Sebastopol, CA--Too many projects? Want to organize them and evaluate them without getting buried
under a mountain of statistics? Johanna Rothman's "Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your
Capacity and Finish More Projects" (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $32.95 USD) will help you collect all your
work and decide which projects you should do first, second, and never.

Johanna says, "So many things can bring a project to its knees. Maybe there's too much
multitasking, or so many emergency projects that emergencies themselves have become normal. But
here's the secret of project portfolio management: you can do it all. Just not all at the same
time."

In "Manage Your Project Portfolio," you'll see how to tie your work to your organization's mission
and show your board, your managers, and your staff what you can accomplish and when. You'll get a
better view of the work you have, and learn how to make those difficult decisions, ensuring that
all your strength is focused where it needs to be.

Once you learn to manage your portfolio better, you'll avoid emergency "firedrills." You'll see how
to effectively adopt lean and agile approaches to projects, whether they are software projects,
projects that include hardware, or projects that depend on chunks of functionality from other
suppliers.

You may be accustomed to spending time in meetings where you still don't have the data you need to
evaluate your projects. Here, with a few measures, you'll be able to quickly evaluate each project
and come to a decision quickly.

You'll learn how to define your team, group, or department's mission with none of the buzzwords
that normally accompany a mission statement. Armed with the work and the mission, you can make
those decisions that define the true leaders in the organization.

For a review copy or more information please email maryr@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery
address and contact information.

Johanna Rothman helps leaders solve problems and seize opportunities. She consults, speaks, and
writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and
organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of
project management, risk management, and people management.

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Manage Your Project Portfolio
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Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Johanna Rothman
ISBN 10: 9781934356296, 250 pages, $32.95 USD
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