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Designing an Agile Portfolio and Program Coordination System

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Designing an Agile Portfolio and Program Coordination System

Better Software Magazine Article by Arlen Bankston, Bob Payne | Comments: (0) | Fri, 10/14/2011 - 03:00
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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. 

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About The Author: Arlen Bankston

Arlen Bankston, Executive Vice President and Managing Partner, LitheSpeed, LLC. Arlen is an established leader in the application and evolution of process management methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma and BPM, as well as Agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. He also has twelve years of experience in product design, leveraging principles of information architecture, interaction design and usability to develop innovative products that meet customers' expressed and unspoken needs. Arlen has led Agile and Lean deployment and managed process improvement projects at clients such as Capital One, T. Rowe Price, Freddie Mac, and the Armed Forces Benefits Association. Arlen's recent work has centered on combining Lean Six Sigma process improvement methods with Agile execution to dramatically improve both the speed and quality of business results. He hasalso led the integration of interaction design and usability practices into Agile methodologies, presenting and training frequently at both industry conferences and to Fortune 100 clients
 

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