People often forget that the reason you try to understand what you are currently doing in R&D is so you can make better decisions in future.  Representing projects graphically allows you to understand the portfolio at a higher level and is ideal for the senior management team when they are contemplating where they are compared to where they are trying to get to.

There are a couple of other blogs about this but I was too tired to put in these final diagrams.  Again, there’s no right or wrong – just different ways of viewing what you have.  I think they’re pretty self-explanatory.  I’d write more but there’s a guy playing his i-Pod so loud I could sing along and I’m just off to garrott him with his own headphone cable.  If there are no more posts – please come visit me in prison.