Weighted Shortest Job First

Learn about the primary tool for managing an Agile project portfolio.

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ABOUT THIS CHAPTER   Many organizations sequence their project portfolios quite informally. They use intuitive practices to decide which projects to start first and which to finish first.

These organizations do not realize just how much their informal approach to project portfolio management is costing them. If they did, they would choose to burn stacks of $100 bills before they would choose to manage their project portfolios by using seat-of-the-pants methods.

The gap in value between intuitive approaches to portfolio management and mathematically based approaches is wide, and Agile projects’ shorter cycle times create even ...