But how much time you actually spend on your project, and how much time you spend responding to emergencies? This book will introduce you in a different way to order all the projects you're working on now, and help you figure out how to staff the projects - even when you've run out of the project team to do the job. Once you learn to manage your portfolio better, you will avoid emergency "firedrills." The trick is to adopt a lean and agile approach to projects, whether they are software projects, projects that include hardware, or projects that depend on pieces of functionality from other suppliers. You may be accustomed to spending time in meetings where you still do not have the data you need to evaluate your projects.