One ofthe areas of constant struggle for many organizations is managing their portfolio. Too many concurrent endeavors, commitments made without available capabilities, lack of discussion about expected value and cost of delay, disconnection between portfolio management and work organization on team level, constant expediting, highly insufficient or inaccurate information... If any of these sounds familiar it indicates common issues on portfolio level. Interestingly enough, in these areas improvements are rare and traditional models surprisingly prevalent even in organizations that adopt agility across development teams. At the same time very frequently low-hanging fruits can be harvested after introducing fairly simple improvements. In this session I will describe how Portfolio Kanban can be used to steer evolution not only at PMO level but across an organization and show how it can be orchestrated with introduction of Lean and Agile on team level.
7. Cost of context switching
Source: Gerald Weinberg, Quality Software Management: Vol. 1 System Thinking
8. Zeigarnik Effect
Tendency to experience
intrusive thought about an
objective left incomplete
Source: S. Greist-Bousquet, N. Shiffman: The effect of task interruption and closure on perceived duration
9. Teams that worked
only on a single project
were significantly better in
terms of defects density
Larry Maccherone
54. Portfolio Kanban
is not about choosing
the work you do;
it’s about choosing the
work you don’t do
55. Mind shift from looking
through the attractiveness
glasses to looking through
capabilities glasses
56. Inspirations:
Eli Goldratt
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