What You will Learn
- Top Challenges with Portfolio Management
- The Multitasking Problem
- Getting Initiatives Started .. Not DONE
- Why We Need a Different Approach
- Intro to Lean Thinking
- Limiting Work In Progress (WIP)
- Lean/Agile Portfolio Big Picture
- The Pull vs. Push Concept
- Understanding Capacity
- Why Stable Whole Teams?
- Supporting Communities of Practice
- New Metrics to Measure
- The New Role of an Agile PMO
- Agile/Lean Portfolio Planning Steps
- The 6 Levels of Planning
- Building Your Backlog of Current and Future Initiatives
- Strategic Alignment
- Developing Your Business Value Buckets
- Developing Your Qualification Filter
- Assigning Business Value Points
- Dependency, Risk, Sizing
- Making the Tough Decisions
- Ranking the Backlog
- Designing Stable ‘Whole’ Teams
- Which Team Should Pull What?
- Measuring Velocity
- Capacity Planning
- Creating an Enterprise Portfolio Grooming Team
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Continuous Backlog Grooming
- Setting Up Your Portfolio Tracking Kanban Walls
- Where To Go Next
Audience
PMO Leaders, Product and Portfolio Managers, Executives and Leaders, Business and IT Sponsors, Program Managers, Project Managers, Program Managers, Technical Leads/Architects and others interested in learning more about Agile/Lean Portfolio Management.
Duration
3 Days