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Could one's life be considered a Project, Program or Portfolio (or none of them)?

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Eduard Hernandez
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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
I woke up in a philosophical mood!
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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
I created a mind map of life being a series of projects which may be unrelated but aimed at achieving strategic goals of success or happiness.... A portfolio in PMBoK it may be called
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Satish Sharma Certified SAP S4Hana 1909 Financials Expert| Freelance New Delhi, India
Life is more closer to be related to a portfolio, agree with Deepesh
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Sheilina Somani Program Manager/Senior Project Manager| Positively Project Management Harrow/Middlesex, United Kingdom
I see it more as a CEO role ... multiple portfolios to manage!
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Thomas Walenta Global Project Economy Expert Hackenheim, Germany
Think it is all of this plus operations, at least while asleep.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Good Morning Eduard

Philosophical mood better than bad mood.

Life is a series of projects and every project is somehow unique - Sometimes a group of projects that you do and are related to the same goal can be considered a Program. At the same time, Deepesh has a point as well.
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Eric Simms Senior Program Manager Baltimore, Maryland, United States
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who wakes up philosophizing about project management! I was beginning to think I might be a bit strange.
I’d describe life as an Agile Project, because we constantly change in response to customer input (i. e. the influence of the world upon us). It’s certainly not a waterfall Project because we don’t plan the path of our entire lives from beginning to end and simply proceed according to the plan.
To extend the analogy, a Program would consist of our lives and those of our family and friends, while a Portfolio would include everyone person in the world, and every living creature on Earth.

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