Agile Portfolio Management

This is an advanced and unique workshop that will take your team through a practical, real world and intensive hands-on journey of applying Agile, Lean and Kanban to YOUR Portfolio Planning and Management! Be prepared to learn some new and innovative methods for planning, prioritizing, sizing and managing your portfolio of initiatives. We will also share a different approach of looking at enterprise capacity planning by planning around teams, [..]

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