Lean Helps You Evolve Your Portfolio Approach

If you don’t have to think about projects anymore, you can use lean and agile approaches to making the portfolio decisions. With the lean principles in mind, you can see that organizing work as agile projects, using pull approaches to organize the work, provides you with the maximum flexibility in managing the project portfolio.

Review your portfolio. Do you see projects that are contributing to waste, rather than removing wastes? Sometimes that waste arises from how the projects are organized. For example, if your projects are based on everyone multitasking all the time, you have tremendous waste. If you try to define all the requirements up front and implement across the architecture instead ...

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