A Case Study in Failure: Portfolio Management in the Money Transfer Industry
150 project on-going at any one time, each have a 10 month timeline to delivery, and new projects are starting on a weekly basis…How much do you think gets done? […]
Portfolio Management In An Agile World
When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. This talk will illustrate how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches […]
One Metric to Rule Them All: Effectively Measure Your Teams Without Subjugating Them
*If you don’t know how to measure what you want, you’ll end up wanting what you can measure.* Most often the thing you want to know isn’t easily quantifiable, and […]
If you need to start a project, you’ve already failed – #NoProjects
This session introduces you to #noprojects, explains how to define an outcome and create an Outcome Profile and how to manage change using the Activity Canvas.
One Portfolio Progress Report across All Project Types – It Can be Done!
This talk covers different ways of reporting progress at a project level, then shows how to roll that data up into one report of progress for the portfolio.
De-Mystifying Kanban: Understanding Its Many Faces
There is a lot of confusion about what Kanban is. Some of this is due to the fact that many people who have never used Kanban have been deriding it […]
Agile Metrics, Velocity is NOT the goal
Velocity is one of the most common metrics used—and one of the most commonly misused—on agile projects. Velocity is simply a measurement of speed in a given direction—the rate at […]
Enterprise Product Owner’s Challenge: Managing Networks of Backlogs
Product Owner is a demanding role. The care and skill with which this role is played is a major determinant of project success or failure. This simple truth, though, becomes […]
Building a Fast, Flexible Flow Using SAFe 4.0 Lean Agile Portfolio Management
Portfolio Management is not a new discipline. However, since the introduction of SAFe in 2012, it’s moved into the mainstream and the importance of structured Portfolio Management has become increasingly […]
User Story Smells and Anti-patterns
Agilists employ user stories as a way to capture user requirements and drive the planning process for iterative and incremental delivery of software. Traditionalists with experience in “big requirements up […]
Scaling Product Development: More Product Learning without More Process Focus
Many companies working hard to be more agile have a strong focus on process but failing to focus on product. This session’s focus is on product over process or project. […]
The State of NoEstimates
This session explores estimates, why they are pervasive in the programming world, how they might be harmful, and proposes better ways to make decisions.
