The Lean Agile Portfolio
Agile practices continue to improve as organizations move forward with adoption and adaption. However, as they move forward, they often run into daunting challenges—coordinating projects with highly complex requirements and interdependencies; navigating highly political environments; and finding ways to fund, report, and integrate agile project work into existing organizational processes. Jamie Mades has found that the Lean Agile Portfolio bridges these gaps, applying lean product development flow principles to identify high-value initiatives and speed completion of work. It reduces risk and uncertainty using agile development practices to realize those initiatives. Jamie discusses how to break down silos across all areas, reduce the divide between agile practices and senior executive requirements, and improve collaboration. Using a $500M portfolio at a Fortune 100 company as an example, he reviews how they seamlessly integrated agile planning into the annual funding cycle and coordinated highly complex work across the organization. Join Jamie to learn where you need to drive changes and where you can adapt agile practices to meet organizational needs.
Jamie Mades is an enterprise transformation coach and consultant, specializing in portfolio implementations for organizations with existing agile teams. He has implemented lean agile portfolios across several companies, including FedEx and Cigna. Jamie has coached at all levels—team, program, portfolio—and spent the first ten years of his professional career as an Air Force officer doing nuclear launch operations and teaching space warfare. Jamie approaches his work with an eye toward individual psychology, organizational behavior, and creating structure by designing systems of systems. He is an avid meditator, travel junkie, and foodie who enjoys sharing and learning from others.