Articles on Portfolio Management

In most organizations, work spends more time waiting to be worked on, than being worked on. To go faster? Look for the queues

Most work items spend more time waiting than actually being worked on

Bring work to teams, not people to projects. Measure value, not busyness

Models simplify reality, but can dangerously misrepresent what is really going

Forcing change conflicts with the essential human need for autonomy

We've had requests for a single page that lists all the ongoing [Beyond Scrum blog

Seeing an organizational change map with seven to eight proposed major changes can feel

Both Vision and Strategy should be created with input from the whole organization, not just leadership

Define vision for change with a mix senior management, middle management, and doers

If nothing changes, the control focus of the organization will destroy the Agile Improvement

Grow a culture where frequent small changes are the norm as the pace of change increases

Your organization has decided to become more “Agile.” Why? As we learned in a previous

In 201x, the global financial markets collapsed. Reason: mortgages were given to people

Companies are starting to fall into a trap, and it goes something like this, “Our

An example of an Organizational Improvement Teams can using Scrum

Using Scrum for Organizational Improvement, remember to include the people on the gorund

prioritize value delivery over keeping workers constantly busy

To be successful with Scrum in the long term you need more than the basic framework.