Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management: A map to business agility

Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management: A map to business agility

The Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management (KPPM) model is designed for companies that manage projects, programs and portfolios, as well as services and operations, and seek improvements such as: See the big picture of all your projects and the dependencies between them - Increase predictability and reduce project delivery time - Be able to design an organizational solution that responds to the particular needs of the different business units and adapt it to changes in their business environment. - Extend the practices at all levels of the organization without bureaucracy - Reinforce the culture of collaboration and client and outcome - orientation. Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management (KPPM) is designated for enterprises that manage projects, programs and portfolios, as well as services and operations, and seek higher performance, agility and adaptability. KPPM is an evolutionary model that integrates principles, practices and cultural values. It guides project organizations in resolving chronic project and portfolio management challenges right at the root and continuously improve their business outcomes. The model codifies the experience of more than thirty companies in different sectors: financial services, industrial engineering, banking, pharmaceutical, and IT. KPPM describes four groups of practices: Plan - Communicate and align - Monitor and adjust - Learn and adapt To ensure a seamless progress and lower risk of failure, the model defines four organizational evolutionary levels: Team-Focused - Customer-Driven - Outcome-Driven - High-Performing Teodora Bozheva introduces the KPPM practices and provides examples from companies she has worked with to illustrate how these practices can be applied in real situations and what advantages they bring to the organizations. You will learn the following from this book: The essential elements for organizational agility; - Why project and portfolio management challenges persist; - The hidden power of KPPM; - KPPM principles, structure and practice groups; - How organizations evolve through KPPM; - KPPM roles; - KPPM practices by evolutionary level; - How to define a roadmap for evolving your organization.