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Portfolio Plan | Glossary

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Definition:

Portfolio Plan is strategic business process set by an organization to determine the investments and funds allocated for innovation and New Product Development (NPD) in order to achieve their business objectives. It is also called as investment portfolio strategy. An activity for determining which products (or projects) to work on, in which order, and for how long. Sometimes referred to as portfolio management or Project Portfolio Management (PPM).

The objective of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is to determine the optimal mix and sequencing of proposed projects to best achieve the organization’s overall business objectives typically expressed in hard economic measures and business strategy goals. With Portfolio Management a business can achieve

Further Reading:

Book: Disciplined Agile Delivery by Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines

          Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process by Kenneth S. Rubin

 

Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Workflow | Book Series

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Overview:

In this book, Dominica DeGrandis, an IT time management expert reveals the real crime of the century time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.

Through this book, DeGrandis discusses some simple solutions that make work visible, helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. The book is a chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization.

The book fully displays Dominica’s deep experience in coaching companies, as  she walks the reader through a series of exercises to find waste and eliminate it, and how to catch the”time thieves” in the act.  Dominica DeGrandis shows us how we can make hidden work-in-process visible, to clearly see the effect it has on our ability to get things done. This book in-depths into the hidden aspects of WIP that steal our time, energy, and productivity, along with strategies for combating each of them.

Authors:

Dominica Degrandis

Published In:

2017