Project Portfolio Management Problems and Issues - Call for Comments
Along with a number of other TOC (Theory of Constraints) practitioners, I'm getting involved in what could be a "blank sheet of paper" development effort for a process to select and prioritize projects in an organization's portfolio of efforts. (If the "blank sheet of paper" approach was good enough for Eli Goldratt to come up with Critical Chain Scheduling and Buffer Management, it's good enough for us. I'd like to solicit input from the readers of this weblog regarding their experience with this subject.
Typical of most such TOC analyses, I'd like to start not with ideas for solutions, but with problems and issues that are chronically faced in developing and managing project portfolios -- the "undesirable effects" of the way that portfolios are managed today. Please use the comment or contact link below to give me your take on the most troublesome aspect of project portfolio management that you would wave a magic wand at if such a wand existed.
What difficulty with project portfolio management is the one you would most like a solution to address?
My preference is to receive answers via the comment feature of the blog entry linked above (and here), but if you feel you must answer here to honor the Gantthead community, that's OK, too.
Fire away...
