Lean Portfolio Management DevOps Helsinki

Lean, Agile Development and tools

for Portfolio management

lasse.mikkonen@contribyte.fi

The Portfolio Challenge

ProgramManager

Sales

Customer

DevelopmentTeams

The Portfolio Challenge

ImpactCompanies end up developing wrong features in way too long projects

Shared Product Ownership in

a Company

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VP of Product

Management

Product Manager(s)

Product Owner(s)

Teams

So what’s the difference compared to

Lean and Scrum principles?

Well working Portfolio Management is just using very

same Lean methods in Program level than in Agile

Team sprint level backlog.

The Lean and Agile Portfolio

SalesCustomer

Teams on

DevOps

Co-Op

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1928232

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Makes the Difference

4 Principles for successful Portfolio Management

Understand customer valueUser Stories & Systems Thinking in all levels of organization

“As a user, I want to...”“As a user, I want to...”

Makes the Difference

Understand information flowfrom Management to Developers

and Operations

Understand customer value User Stories & Systems Thinking in all levels of organization

“As a user, I want to...”

4 Principles for successful Portfolio Management

“As a user, I want to...”

4 Principles for successful Portfolio Management

Makes the Difference

Keep goals and progress visiblePublish Data in intra and

give feed back

Understand information flowfrom Management to Developers

and Operations

Understand customer valueUser Stories & Systems Thinking in all levels of organization

“As a user, I want to...”

4 Principles for successful Portfolio Management

“As a user, I want to...”

4 Principles for successful Portfolio Management

Makes the Difference

Keep goals and progress visiblePublish Data in intra and

give feed back

Understand information flowfrom Management to Developers

and Operations

Understand customer valueUser Stories & Systems Thinking in all levels of organization

Use simple & unified toolsAll different level Backlogs in

same tool

“As a user, I want to...”

4 Principles for successful Portfolio Management

“As a user, I want to...”

4 Principles for successful Portfolio Management

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Best tools are not always the Strongest and Biggest

Portfolio Management – VersionOne

Portfolio Management - Rally

Portfolio Management – Team Foundation Server

Portfolio Management – Atlassian Jira

Portfolio Management - Rally