Value Stream based Agile Portfolio Management

One of the most important aspects of structuring IT and software investments is budgeting. Traditional IT planning and portfolio activities put emphasis on evaluation, approval, and delivery tracking of project proposals. Value Stream budgeting from top to down allows IT to contribute to business strategy and planning, thus enabling IT alignment with business plans.

Challenges:

Executives:

• Executives experience a widening gap between strategy and execution.

Portfolio Managers:

• Suffer from a lack of flexibility around supporting agile operations and continuous delivery
• Find it hard to be aligned to traditional KPIs
• Struggle with combining waterfall and agile projects

Our Services:

• We facilitate the scope definition of Value Streams based on strategic themes
• We support IT related capability planning for upcoming architectural needs
• Define agile release trains (cross functional program teams)
• Create a roll-out plan

Your Benefits:

• Establishing new governance models.
• Setting innovative KPIs definitions.
• Aligning portfolio programs to strategic goals.