Extending Portfolio Kanban with Enterprise Services Planning
This post extends further on the possibilities of Portfolio Kanban for Enterprise Transformation, building on your reading of the previous posts in this series. In the first post, we discussed a key bottleneck to enterprise transformation, exploring the merits of Portfolio Kanban in addressing this in the second post, defining mandatory characteristics of fit-for-purpose tooling to improve success in the third post.
February 21, 2018
With the digital disruption of business models and whole industries, business executives and process owners are faced with a variety of transformation challenges. The need and pressure to deliver and demonstrate improved performance metrics, transparency and collaboration are greater than ever.
Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. Here are some interesting highlights from there.