portfolio kanban - low-friction method to improve organization's effectiveness

Portfolio Kanban Low-Friction Method to Improve

Organization’s Effectiveness

Pawel Brodzinski

@pawelbrodzinski

Hi, I’m Pawel

Lunar Logic Chief cook and bottlewasher http://llp.pl

I’ve been supervising

multiple concurrent projects for

8 years...

...and it sucks

Excel frenzy

Goal: Find meaningful data

You’ll make it!

Give me more!

Oh, there are just too many

of them!

It doesn’t come for free

Source: Gerald Weinberg, Quality Software Management: Vol. 1 System Thinking

Cost of context switching

Zeigarnik Effect: Tendency to experience intrusive thought about

an objective left incomplete

Source: S. Greist-Bousquet, N. Shiffman: The effect of task interrupton and closure on perceived duration

Cost of task switching is rooted in interference

from thoughts about the task your are not doing

Eyal Ophir

Time to market

Source: E. Ophir, C. Nass, A. Wagner: Cognitive control in media multitaskers

Lower quality

Don’t we know the cure already?

Portfolio Kanban Story

Where would you start?

Variability stupid!

Stalled board

WIP limits? Oh...

Side note: There are

exceptions

Two-tier board

Few have such comfort though

Non-standard board designs

Alternative design

Team-level

Individuals

Total capabilities

Different capabilities

Free capabilities

Commitments

Concurrent engagements

Planned time span

Types of work

Future commitments

Planned work

Unavailability

Show me that here

Low hanging fruit

What about WIP limits then?

5O

Free capabilities

WIP limits by conversation

Finally, data from other sources

What’s in it for me?

A system of local optima is not an optimal system

at all; it is a very suboptimal system

Eli Goldratt

Processing the waste more effectively is

cheaper, neater, faster waste.

Stephen Parry

If you are doing the wrong thing you can’t learn, you will only be trying to do the wrong

thing righter.

John Seddon

Problem we tend to ignore

Low-friction method

Thank you

Pawel Brodzinski

blog.brodzinski.com

llp.pl

@pawelbrodzinski