“Strategy agility isn't about waiting for a crisis. It's about building the muscle to stop, pivot, and adapt before disaster strikes.”
Mark Richards
This episode sees hosts Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Stephan Neck, Mark Richards, and Ali Hajou conclude their exploration of...
“Often, there’s a real lack of clarity about where we are now. And it can be a very uncomfortable, painful set of truths that people don’t want to face. But to create progress, you need to face uncomfortable truths and understand where you’re starting from."
Natalie Field...
“You will cross some silos, stretch some rules, but in the end, you work together, have joy, and achieve greatness.”
Nikolaos Kaintantzis
In this penultimate episode of the SPCs Unleashed Competency journey, hosts Mark Richards, Nikolaos (Niko) Kaintantzis, and Stephan...
"Real strategy deployment empowers teams to act on strategic intent with ownership and clarity."
Karl Scotland
We’re joined by Strategy Deployment expert Karl Scotland in this episode.
Karl helps businesses become Learning Organisations through outcome-oriented,...
“Without consistency and standards none of this works. With too much consistency nothing changes. You have to steer and constantly sense and course-correct.”
Mark Richards
Mark Richards and Niko Kaintantzis join Stephan Neck in this episode with Agile Portfolio Operations...
"So on any given day, I'm just managing those planes and flight patterns and trying to make sense and create that sequencing of road maps. Or at least highlight, hey, you're not going to achieve that, because this strategy over here in this portfolio isn't even thinking that way”
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"If you can start talking to audit, you can find solutions that they will help you reach that nobody else would have thought about"
Mark Richards
In Episode 19, hosted by Stephan Neck, Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Ali Hajou, and Mark Richards, the focus is on Lean Portfolio Management...
“The right collective organization tends to have fewer blind spots, because, by definition, a team is a transactional memory system of sufficient predictive power that we can know how to work together”
Luke Hohmann
When we decided to start inviting interesting...
"The journey to get there isn’t easy. The outcomes, when it works, are pretty amazing and unbelievable, but you’ll find a whole new set of problems you never imagined could go wrong"
Eric Willeke
With the initial arc complete, this episode adopts a new perspective...
“As an SPC on the Portfolio Level: The first time just be an assistant, not the head coach. Learn about how companies work, how they speak, how they behave.”
Nikolaos Kaintantzis
Hosts Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Stephan Neck, and Mark Richards take a deep dive into Lean...
Ten Essential LPM Behaviors
Don’t cripple your LPM implementation
A few years back I helped several large companies in adopting lean portfolio approaches at the same time, and the same set of questions around “what matters most?” kept coming up. People found the “do...
One of my favorite exercises in our Product Owner Program involves asking the students to review a sample feature canvas and compare it to the features they currently prepare for PI Planning. I measure the effectiveness of an exercise by the commitment to action that follows the...