Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

Johanna Rothman

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Feel as if you can't get anything done? More projects than time to do them? Crises out the wazoo? Then it's time to consider another approach: managing your project portfolio. You can organize your projects and and evaluate them without getting buried under a mountain of statistics.

Johanna will discuss how to collect all your work, decide which projects you should do first, second—and never. You’ll see how lean and agile approaches fit managing the project portfolio and how they make it easy. We’ll discuss 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.

Defining the Expected Behaviors of an Agile Leader

David Spann, President Agile Adaptive Management

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How would you describe the preferred characteristics of an Agile Leader; what criteria would you use to search for or develop your firm's next Agile team lead; what are the similarities between an Agile Leader, a Community Development Coordinator and a Professional Facilitator? The answers are found in David Spann's three year research effort into the expectations of these highly collaborative roles.