Scaling Agile with Portfolios - Lisa Gordon
08/10/20 • 21 min
Agile Portfolio Manager Lisa Gordon explains the importance of blatant honesty, difficult tradeoff decisions and maintaining relationships across teams. Lisa has been instrumental in establishing Agile at Amway, particularly in our Agile Portfolios. Here are some of the highlights from this episode:
- What is a Portfolio Manager
- Making difficult tradeoff decisions while maintaining relationships
- What a Portfolio Manager needs from a Product Owner
- Doubling down with a radical focus on what matters most
Questions? Reach out:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Agile Portfolio Manager Lisa Gordon explains the importance of blatant honesty, difficult tradeoff decisions and maintaining relationships across teams. Lisa has been instrumental in establishing Agile at Amway, particularly in our Agile Portfolios. Here are some of the highlights from this episode:
- What is a Portfolio Manager
- Making difficult tradeoff decisions while maintaining relationships
- What a Portfolio Manager needs from a Product Owner
- Doubling down with a radical focus on what matters most
Questions? Reach out:
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Why Agile Fails - Lee Wiesehuegel
Coach Lee tells us "why agile fails" at scale and what needs to be addressed to reduce the chances of it happening to you and your organization. Most of us know that Agile is easy and effective on a single team, but those of us in the business of Agile Transformation are not working with single teams - we're working with large corporations, multiple departments, external service providers and dozens upon dozens of teams.
So how do you avoid failure with agile at scale?
3 key elements of agile at scale
- Teams
- Backlogs
- Working Tested "Stuff" (software, product, etc.)
3 areas that need to change
- Structure (of the teams and their relationships to one another)
- Governance (who makes decisions, how they are made, when they are made)
- Metrics (what we measure and how we respond to what those measures are telling us)
Questions? Email me or Lee at
[email protected]
[email protected]
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- Role of a Leader
- People oriented: aka making people awesome
- Coach and mentor people to make wise decisions
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For Agility's Sake - Scaling Agile with Portfolios - Lisa Gordon
Transcript
For agility say
Unknown Speakerhello, everyone and welcome to the show. I'm your host, Kyle Spitzley. And with me today is Lisa Gordon, how are you doing, Lisa? I am fabulous. Thanks, Kyle. Oh, thank you so much for joining the show today. I'm excited to be here with you and to talk about portfolios, portfolio management, and just how that works in the world of Agile at Amway. So just to get the
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