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Overview of the ‘scaling with portfolio Kanban’ course

Learn how to apply Kanban at the organisational level to optimise workflow, improve predictability, and make data-driven decisions across multiple teams and projects.

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Scaling Portfolio Kanban : Enhancing Flow and Predictability at the Organizational Level

Introduction

The “Applying Scaling Portfolio Kanban” class is designed to elevate your understanding of Kanban from the team level to the organizational and program levels. This course provides strategies to analyze and optimize the flow of portfolio items, ultimately increasing the value delivered by your products and improving predictability across your organization.


Why Scale Portfolio Kanban?

Scaling Portfolio Kanban offers several advantages for large organizations:

  • Holistic View: Understand and manage work across multiple teams and departments.

  • Increased Predictability: Improve forecasting and delivery timelines.

  • Value Maximization: Focus on delivering the highest value items and making informed decisions about projects.


Course Overview: Applying Scaling Portfolio Kanban

The “Applying Scaling Portfolio Kanban” course helps leaders and managers analyze and enhance their workflow at an organizational level. Key areas of focus include:

  • Understanding Organizational Flow: Gain insights into how work flows through your entire organization.

  • Creating Effective Strategies: Develop strategies to enable the smooth flow of portfolio items.

  • Improving Predictability: Learn techniques to increase the predictability of your deliverables.


Key Components of the Course

  1. System-Wide Analysis:
  • Shift focus from team-level to organization-level analysis.

  • Understand and visualize the flow of work across departments and programs.

  • Identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement in the overall system.

  1. Strategic Decision Making :
  • Learn to make data-driven decisions about which projects to pursue, which to abandon, and which need significant changes.

  • Focus on delivering high-value items and optimizing resources.

  1. Enhancing Flow and Predictability:
  • Techniques to increase the speed and predictability of delivery.

  • Understand the impact of different types of work on the system and how to balance them effectively.

  1. Engaging Leadership :
  • Designed for heads of departments, agile coaches, project managers, development leads, high-level product owners, scrum masters, and product managers.

  • Equip leaders with the tools to ask insightful questions and drive continuous improvement .


Benefits of the Scaling Portfolio Kanban Course

Implementing the strategies from this course will provide several benefits:

  • Optimized Workflow: Improved flow of portfolio items through the system.

  • Better Predictability: Enhanced ability to forecast and meet delivery timelines.

  • Informed Decisions: Data-driven decision-making for project prioritization and resource allocation.

  • Increased Value Delivery : Focus on delivering high-value projects more efficiently.


Conclusion

The “Applying Scaling Portfolio Kanban” course is essential for leaders who want to optimize their organizational workflow, improve predictability, and maximize value delivery. By understanding and applying Kanban strategies at a portfolio level, you can transform your project management approach and achieve better outcomes for your business.

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Recommended Resources:

  • Kanban Training: Explore our advanced Kanban training programs to dive deeper into Kanban practices.

  • Consulting Services: Need help implementing Kanban at scale? Our experts are ready to assist.

  • Further Reading: Check out more articles on Kanban and agile methodologies on our blog.

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The applying scaling portfolio cbank class is really about how do we look at our system no longer at the team level but how do we look at our system at the organisation level at the programme level. Um, and what how how do we then understand, analyse the work and create effective strategies for enabling that flow of portfolio items through our system to increase the amount of value that we deliver for our products to increase predictability so that we can have a better understanding of which things are likely to be successful, which things we need to cut our losses on, um, which things need to be changed drastically in order to result in that value creation.

And so it really focuses at for heads of departments, so agile coaches, project managers, development leads, high-level product owners, scrum masters and product managers that are trying to deliver lots of things, um, that may be competing things into production. Um, and they need to increase the flow through the system. Right, we want to deliver um more stuff more quickly. We want to get faster and more predictable um at delivery and those are all things that we’re going to talk about in the applying scaled portfolio cbank class.

So this course will help um leaders in organisations understand the current flow through their system and ask more interesting questions about what they can do differently to improve the flow and predictability through the system. Um, so whatever your system is at that level, how do you understand what is going on in portfolio and increase that flow of delivery of work for the business and increased predictability?

If you want to have a discussion about your unique needs or situation, then please book a call or visit us at Naked Agility. Um, we also have our immersive and traditional public classes on our website and would love to hear from you.

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