Descale Your Portfolio By Organizing Around Products
The most powerful portfolio simplification move: organizing around products instead of projects. How product-oriented portfolio management reduces complexity at scale.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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What Do Busy Portfolio Kanban Boards Tell Us?
A packed Portfolio Kanban signals centralized decision-making and an iron spaghetti portfolio. How to use your portfolio board to diagnose — and fix — the structural causes of slow portfolio flow.
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Improving Portfolio Flow Using Flow Metrics
Flow metrics — cycle time, throughput, WIP, aging — aren't just for team-level Kanban. How to apply them at the portfolio level to visualize investment flow and make smarter prioritization decisions.
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The Story Points Detox Plan Shortcut
You don't need a new experiment to switch from velocity to flow metrics — your historical sprint data is already the experiment. A practical shortcut for the story points detox plan.
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Field observations from organizations pushing agility beyond software: what the frontier looks like, what patterns are emerging, and what remains unsolved.
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De-Risk Product Development w/ Leading Indicators
Outcome OKRs aren't enough — and most of them quietly track business impact, which is lagging. The fix is to steer by the customer outcome (a change in behavior) using leading indicators, instead of doing waterfall with better labels.
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