Lean Project Accounting: The Blueprint for Mixed Portfolios Kiplot collaborated with AND Digital to develop the definitive blueprint for organisations looking to implement an lean project accounting methodology, as part of a wider agile transformation. The paper addresses a number of common challenges, including: Why does enterprise agile transformation demand a new approach to project …

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Resource Capacity Planning Why is resource capacity planning different with agile? How should you start to approach it? According to Gartner, 92% of Corporate Strategists state resource allocation as the biggest barrier to effective strategy execution. Effective utilisation of capacity can accelerate delivery by as much as 40%.  In the context of a 5 year …

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Lean Budgeting A high level introduction to Lean Budgeting, capacity-led funding and implications for investment governance. If you’re new to Lean Portfolio Management and have not yet familiarised yourself with the concept of Value Streams – we strongly recommend that you start there. You can follow this link to take you straight to our introduction …

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Lean Portfolio Management An introduction to the implications of SAfE for your portfolio management function Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) encompasses a broad suite of capabilities, methods, ways of working, processes and operating principles that enables large organisations to instil agility into day-to-day change delivery. LPM achieves this by establishing an unbreakable golden thread between business …

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Value Stream Centric Delivery What is a value stream? Why are the important? And what does it mean for your organisation? For most organisations, value streams are simply an operating model design mechanism that describes the grouping of skills, functions and teams together to encompass all of the capabilities required to deliver a particular type …

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Objectives, Key Results (OKRs)s An introduction to using OKRs and agile portfolio planning Organisations should not think of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as a radically new methodology. Instead, OKRs can be used as a simple framework that allows an organisation to distil its strategy into a commonly understood, actionable, trackable, pathway to future success. …

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