Upcoming Webinar on Project Portfolio Management - No Fluff Just Stuff

Upcoming Webinar on Project Portfolio Management

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 28, 2012

I’m doing a webinar with Rally on March 7. It’s about selecting the Number One project in your project portfolio. Please join me and Isaac Montgomery, who will attempt to rein me in (ha!) for What’s the Number One Project in Your Project Portfolio? on March 7.

Here’s an excerpt from the description:

You have plenty of potential #1 projects in your project portfolio. How can you choose among them to decide? Maybe you are comparing projects that are like comparing apples, frogs, and trains—projects that are so dissimilar you don’t even know how to start comparing them.

Not all projects are created equal. The first thing is to separate your projects to see if they are potentially transformative, normal growth, or keep-the-lights-on projects. Then we can use the power of agile to provide empirical data, so we don’t have to predict anything.

However, we do have to collaborate, to do what is best for the organization. Project portfolio management is about optimizing for the organization and making decisions for now, not forever.

In this webinar, Johanna will discuss how to use project portfolio management to inspect and adapt without having the data up front, and how to collaborate across the organization. Because project portfolio management is about your organization winning, not your project.

I’ll be speaking twice, at 10am Eastern, which makes it reasonable for Europe and quite early for your west-coasters and at 4pm Eastern, which is lovely for the west-coasters and beyond and crazy for the Europeans. So, I think we can catch just about anyone who wants to understand how you can think about helping the organization win.

Please do register and join us for what promises to be a lively discussion.

 

Johanna Rothman

About Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable things that might work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. She’s written these books:

  • Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
  • Become a Successful Independent Consultant
  • Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
  • Modern Management Made Easy series: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself; Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others; Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
  • Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
  • From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby)
  • Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
  • Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
  • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition
  • Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
  • Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
  • Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost
  • Manage Your Job Search
  • Hiring Geeks That Fit
  • 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)

In addition to articles and columns on various sites, Johanna writes the Managing Product Development blog on her website, jrothman.com, as well as a personal blog on createadaptablelife.com.

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