Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
Assess the current state of the portfolio and ensure that portfolio owners and other stakeholders are onboard before you move forward to develop and implement new portfolio processes.
Wireframe standardized portfolio processes for all project methodologies to follow.
Pilot your new portfolio processes and decision-making paradigm. Then, execute a change impact analysis to inform your communications strategy and implementation plan.
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Determine the current state of your project execution and portfolio oversight practices.
Align different types of projects within a unified portfolio.
Define the best roles and engagement strategies for individual stakeholders as you transition to an Engaged Agile Portfolio.
A current state understanding of project and portfolio management challenges.
Bolster the business case for developing an Engaged Agile Portfolio.
Increase stakeholder and team buy-in.
1.1 Calculate the size of your portfolio in human resource hours.
1.2 Estimate your project sizes and current project methodology mix.
1.3 Document the current known status of your in-flight projects.
1.4 Perform a project execution portfolio oversight survey.
Your portfolio’s project capacity in resource hours.
Better understanding of project demand and portfolio mix.
Current state visibility.
An objective assessment of current areas of strengths and weaknesses.
Objectively and transparently approve, reject, and prioritize projects.
Prioritize work to start and stop on a sprint-by-sprint basis.
Maintain a high frequency of accurate reporting.
Assess and report the realization of project benefits.
Improve timeliness and accuracy of project portfolio reporting.
Make better, faster decisions about when to start and stop work on different projects.
Increase stakeholder satisfaction.
2.1 Develop a portfolio intake workflow.
2.2 Develop a prioritization scorecard and process.
2.3 Establish a process to estimate sprint demand and resource supply.
2.4 Develop a process to estimate sprint value and necessity.
An intake workflow.
A prioritization scorecard and process.
A process to estimate sprint demand and resource supply.
A process to estimate sprint value and necessity.
Analyze the potential change impacts of your new portfolio processes and how they will be felt across the organization.
Develop an implementation plan to ensure strategy buy-in.
A strategic and well-planned approach to process implementation.
3.1 Analyze change impacts of new portfolio processes.
3.2 Prepare a communications plan based upon change impacts.
3.3 Develop an implementation plan.
3.4 Present new portfolio processes to portfolio owners.
A change impact analysis.
A communications plan.
An implementation plan.
Portfolio strategy buy-in.