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Lazaro Wolf

@lazarowolf
Jose Casal

@jose_casal
ACTINIUM.IO
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PUSH PULLORGANISATIONS
VS
Push
Pull
‣ In Push Organisations:
‣ Decision making in isolation
‣ Lack of visibility and transparency
‣ Unclear expectations and goals
‣ Lack of economic prioritisation of projects and
misalignment with strategic goals
‣ Lack of Empowerment and Enablement of
Employees to meet Expectations
PUSH PULLORGANISATIONS
VS
‣ In Pull Organisations:
‣ Teams self-organise based on Capacity and Capability
‣ Equal contributors to the Problem-Solving process
‣ Maintain their Commitment
‣ Create engaging environment w/ passion and
excitement
‣ Predictability
‣ Probabilistic Planning & Forecasting
‣ Smooth journey from concept to cash
PUSH PULLORGANISATIONS
VS
DSDMLIFECYCLE PROCESS
Deployment
Feasibility
Delivery
Foundations
Pre-Project
Post-Project
PROCESSMAPPING
Deployment
Feasibility
Delivery
FoundationsPre-Project
Post-Project
Pre-Project Feasibility Foundation Post-ProjectDelivery Deploy
Pre-Project Feasibility Foundation Post-ProjectDelivery Deploy
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VISUALISATION
‣ Merits in managing your Portfolio:
‣ Identify which projects are blocked
‣ Raise awareness of the bottlenecks
‣ Align projects with teams
‣ Highlight the current workload
‣ Resolve interdependencies
‣ Prioritise projects based on economic drivers
‣ Visualise the stage of each project in the portfolio
‣ Classify projects by their nature using colour aids
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WORKLOAD CAPACITYVS
‣ Set WIP Limits:
‣ Balance the demand for more work with the
capacity to deliver quality products
‣ WIP Limits create a coordination mechanism
‣ Enable a pull-based system
‣ Sustainable teams working in a productive and
predictable environment
‣ WIP Limits signal availability & expose issues
‣ Focus on flow and not on utilisation
“
“Avoid futility of endless busyness, make time to
renew, find time gaps to reflect, take advantage
of slack to respond to change.
– Stephen Covey
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FLOWMANAGEMENT
‣ Prioritisation made on economic value
(e.g. Cost of Delay, Real Options)
‣ Identify and manage different types of projects
(e.g. S/M/L or Internal/External)
‣ Understand your system (Cumulative Flow
Diagrams, Lead Time Distributions)
‣ Manage your portfolio with valuable data
‣ Accurate Probabilistic Forecasting of Project
Completion
EXPEDITEPROJECTS
‣ Expediting provides a means to respond
‣ Swarming on the project
‣ ACT!
‣ Expedite Projects cause Business Critical Impact
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PROJECTSWIMLANES
‣ Focus on completing projects
‣ Avoid project multi-tasking
‣ Coordinate multi-project deployments
‣ Visualise and Manage Team Workloads
Pre-Project Feasibility Foundation Post-Project
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Project Summary
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Project Summary
To-Do Doing Done
To-Do Doing Done
To-Do Doing Done
NESTEDBOARDS
‣ Detailed work at team level board
‣ Interfaces well with Scrum Teams.
‣ Tickets in this board form the Sprint Goals or
the Sprint Backlog Stories
‣ PSI from Scrum Teams contribute towards
Deploy phase
‣ Regularly prioritised backlog based on business value
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Project Summary
To-Do Doing Done
To-Do Doing Done
EXPLICIT

POLICIES
EXPLICIT

POLICIES
EXPLICIT

POLICIES
EXPLICIT

POLICIES
EXPLICIT

POLICIES
POLICIESEXPLICIT
‣ Definition of Done for each stage aligned to the products
‣ Eg.: a policy for moving between Feasibility and
Foundations would be to have completed the
following products:
‣ Outline Business Case
‣ Risk Assessment
‣ Outline Solution
‣ Feasibility Prototype (opt.)
‣ Outline Plan
‣ Project Approach Questionnaire
FEEDBACKLOOPS
Iteration Reviews
Timebox Reviews
Timebox Retrospectives
Project Reviews
Project Retrospectives
Monthly Operational Reviews
Replenishment Workshops
Portfolio Forecasting Sessions
Benefit Realisation Reviews
THANKS

The Kanban PMO: How to improve an existing PMO using Kanban and AgilePM