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Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean Software Enterprise
@ Cloud 2011/Q2 review14.6.2011
Jarno Vähäniitty ([email protected])Software Process Research GroupSoberIT
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Five topic alternatives for today:
• “Levels of portfolio management in a lean software enterprise” (10 votes)
• ”How the product backlog really works - results from a systematic study of research and practitioner literature” (8 votes)
• “Towards agile product and portfolio management” (5)• “Backlog management tool requirements for the lean
software enterprise” (2)• “Transparent collaboration and progress follow-up of
research themes in Aalto WP#2 using Agilefant” (1)
Audience demographics
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Overview of this ”collaboration thread”
Cloud Software Program2011 Deliverable:
BP for Scaling Agile
Collaboration Thread:
Linking Strategy with Action in Lean/agile R&D OrganizationsJarno Vähäniitty
Publication:
”Towards Agile Product and Portfolio Management” (Ph.D. Jarno Vähäniitty, submitted to preliminary examination 6/2011)
Aalto University
Software Process Research Group (SPRG)
Focus area:
Software Product Management
Publication:
”Blind Men and the Product Backlog” Submission to Journal of Empirical Software Engineering in Q3-Q4/2011
Presentation:
”Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean Software Enterprise” (Q2/2011 review)
Today
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WP#2:
Lean Software Enterprise
”Cloud Makes R&D Harder”
The Product Backlog – Far From Simple!
“Product backlog as a prioritized, constantly emerging list of work” (Ambler 2008b)
The Product Backlog – Far From Simple!
Sections in the product backlog, adapted from (Schiel 2009)
The Product Backlog – Far From Simple!T
he product planning iceb
erg, adapted from
(K
eith 2010) – w
ho got it from (C
ohn 2
009)
Blind Men and the Product Backlog• ”It is a …”
– List of ”everything that needs to be done”• but idea pool kept separate
– Transcends any single release; sections:• Ongoing iteration• Up next• Ongoing release• Future releases
– Prioritized & elaborated just-in-time• Driven by vision => product & business goals• Ongoing iteration / Immediate future
– Ordered sequentially– Estimated in man-hours
• Further ahead– Estimated in abstract units– Order ”less sequential”
• A flat list … and a hierarchy!
“Product roadmap” = a View of the High Level Goals in PBL
(Vähäniitty 2011)
Planning levels in Agile SW Development(S
mits 20
07, Cohn 200
5)
Planning Levels and Work Item Hierarchy(V
ähäniitty 2011
)
Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean Software Enterprise
(Vähäniitty 2011)
Portfolio Management as Business Level Investment Setting
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Picasa23 %
Reader10 %
Wave8 %
Portfolio Management as High Level Goal Setting
Portfolio Management as Project Resourcing Decisions
Adapted from (Shalloway 2009)
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Project A
Project B
Project C
Project D
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Feature B2
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Time
Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean SW Enterprise(Vähäniitty 2011)
Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean SW Enterprise(Vähäniitty 2011)
Thank You!
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