Manage Your Project Portfolio Quotes

“The problem is you are working on projects. Service-level response times interfere with project work and cause multitasking. Maybe someone has to do that work, but maybe not you. Or, if you do have to do it, someone else can rank-order the work, and you can work in short timeboxes so you have a chance of completing the necessary-to-the-organization work without multitasking.”
― Johanna Rothman, Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

“The product managers now meet together as a group. They think about what they can accomplish together to meet their group performance. Now,”
― Johanna Rothman, Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

“as an organization, you incur capability debt, because people (managers and technical staff) can’t improve their capabilities when they’re overburdened with too much work to do.”
― Johanna Rothman, Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects