Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability

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Process and Process Improvement Good process and continually improving process are admirable goals. They are also very natural goals: good technical workers will focus on them whether you tell them to or not. Formal process improvement programs costs time and money: a given process improvement effort may well set project work back. Even if producti

There are portions of organizations, and even of economies, that are chain-linked. When each link is managed somewhat separately, the system can get stuck in a low-effectiveness state. The problem arises because of quality matching.1 That is, if you are in charge of one link of the chain, there is no point in investing resources in making your link

Managing an Overwhelming Workload 1. Challenge each item on your list: • Why is this on my list? • What goal, objective, or management process does this support? • Does it still matter? • What would be lost if I stopped doing it? 2. Review your list of tasks that are no longer relevant with your boss for agreement. 3. Make a new, shorter list of on