"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...
“Design for easy repairability, especially in complex systems that must evolve over time.”
Ali Hajou
In this episode, the SPCs Unleashed team tackles the complex dimension of continually evolving live systems, with a particular focus on large, cyber-physical systems. Mark...
As I'm teaching today*, I was reminded of a way I used to describe system constraints back when I taught a lot of kanban classes and helped design kanban systems. This quick post captures them for reference and to seed a discussion.
This post was originally created in 2020, and was recently...
If only our executives would commit, we could…
“They” don’t support what we’re trying to do…
Interesting words. What do you really want from “them”? Who is this “them” anyway? Is it one leader? Is it a team? Is it really the...
"Experiment like a scientist, not a mad scientist"
Mark Richards
Have you ever pondered, "How can a lean approach work wonders for massive systems?" That’s exactly where we dive into this episode of SPCs Unleashed. Hosted by Swiss SPCTs Stephan and Niko, Dutch SPCT Ali, and...
“It's a wonderful toolbox, but you don't have to stand up a large solution to start using the toolbox.”
Mark Richards
In this engaging episode of SPCs Unleashed, hosts Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Mark Richards, Stephan Neck, and Ali Hajou dive deep into the complexities of...