“Just as delegation is a skill that can get taught to leaders and often is, the ability to take ownership is a skill that needs to be developed in people, and organizations often do not invest in training that.” 

Evan Leybourn

In this episode, we are joined by Evan...

“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...

"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,...

"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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“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...

"You get a mad underspend in Q1; then you spend Q2 and Q3 trying to catch up on the questions about your Q1 underspend. This is variation waste, and causes massive issues in terms of the ability of the system to absorb the work"

Mark Richards

In this episode, we turn our attention to...

"In most cases, the portfolio itself is under a fog of war. You can't actually see what's going on unless you take your telescope and really zoom in on an area"

Eric Willeke

This episode concludes the initial six-part arc laying the foundations of lean portfolio management. The first...

"It's common for people to say they have a platform strategy that doesn't necessarily resemble a platform strategy so much as a center of dependency hell"

Mark Richards

In Episode 3, we explored the influence of Moore's Zone to Win model on understanding the portfolio ecosystem....

"Create the visualizations that are going to be useful, do some cleanup work to create the space for people to think a little more deeply, and then make sure you don't waste their time so they can put some wins on the board"

Eric Willeke

With our love of strategy off the leash in...

"I don't want to have a minnow next to a minotaur because the minnow is never going to feature in the conversation"

Mark Richards

This is the first episode where we deep-dive into strategy. Whether your portfolio is shaping a strategy or deploying one shaped elsewhere, you need tools...

"In nearly half of the cases I can think of, the things that the teams most hate providing to governance are the same things the governance team doesn't actually want and doesn't know how to tell the teams to stop providing"

Eric Willeke

This episode dives into the 'Lean'...