Designing an Agile Portfolio and Program Coordination System
Designing an Agile Portfolio and Program Coordination System
Scaling Agile to the enterprise can be challenging once you start looking at the Program and Portfolio level. How do you design an effective coordination system that encourages collaboration, communication, transparency and is flexible, easy to implement and rapidly evolvable? We will explore key aspects of creating a simple but effective agile-ready coordination system for managing such initiatives, based upon the authors' observations and experiences across widely differing companies.
Many otherwise astute agilists have struggled when faced with the challenge of scaling methods like Scrum to large, multiteam projects and programs. Luckily, this shared hardship has resulted in some creative solutions to the problems such efforts can pose. We will explore key aspects of creating a simple but effective agile-ready coordination system for managing such initiatives, based upon the authors’ observations and experiences across widely differing companies.
