Decoding Lean Portfolio Management: The Jargon Buster In the world of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), one of the first barriers most newcomers face isn’t a lack of enthusiasm or dedication. Instead, it’s the challenge of deciphering an array of terminologies that sound more abstract than they truly are. Many concepts aren’t entirely new. They’re often …

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Accuracy vs Precision: Rethinking Resource Capacity Planning Rethinking resource capacity planning has garnered significant focus, and for compelling reasons – ensuring optimal utilization of resource has never been more important. Traditionally, individual-level capacity planning might seem logical in the pursuit of optimal resource allocation. However, when applied at enterprise scale, the pursuit of this granularity …

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Value Stream Design: Start With The Work In the world of the modern enterprise organizations, a centralized guide to guide to crafting OKRs is critical. Modern enterprise organisations, especially those adopting scaled agile frameworks, grapple with the significant challenge of optimal organizational design. Questions abound: “What are my value streams?” “How many Agile Release Trains …

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Crafting Enterprise OKRs: Do’s and Don’ts The art of writing an effective OKR is in understanding the balance between ambition and realism. The best OKRs inspire action, not apprehension. They have a clear link to strategic goals and are quantifiable and time-bound. Here’s a guide to help you craft great enterprise OKRs. Step 1: Ensure …

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Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Implementing OKRs: A Strategic Approach Imagine navigating a ship in the vastness of the ocean without a compass, no stars to guide your way, just sheer instinct and guesswork. You’d probably agree, the chances of reaching your desired destination are slim.  Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are your organisations’ compass and …

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Key themes from the Edinburgh PMO Conference 2022 There are lots of interesting and exciting themes emerging from the conference – we’ve picked our top three: 1. Start by aligning strategy to execution   A theme that is close to hearts here at Kiplot! We were delighted to hear that the opening keynote speaker (Laura …

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Don’t confuse accountability with empowerment Striking the balance between accountability and empowerment is critical to creating a high performing culture Most organisations want to move faster, become more nimble, and deliver better customer outcomes. Many of them already know that to achieve this, they must move away from a top-down flow of ideas, and towards …

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Focus on agility, not on agile How to get out of the starting blocks with your agile tranformation In the context of “agile transformations”, we often come across organisations that feel overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge ahead of them. The volume of jargon, the consultants queuing up to provide their perspective, and the …

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3 Areas of Focus for Large Organisations Scaling Agile The majority of large organisations have begun to implement some form of scaled agile. As adoption of this new way of working begins to take hold, organisations often begin to struggle to make sense of what’s going on. Projects might be executing with reasonable success on …

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