SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Saving the DoD $800M: How Portfolio Management is the Missing Link Between Agile and Waterfall
Speakers: Jackie Ho, Staff Product Designer at VMware; Oscar Chacon, Portfolio PM at United States Space Force
Saving the DoD $800M: How Portfolio Management is the Missing Link Between Agile and Waterfall
1. Lt Oscar Chacon
United States Space Force
Saving the DoD Money:
How Portfolio Management is the
Missing Link Between Agile and Waterfall
Jackie Ho
VMware Tanzu Labs
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8. Section 31 @ Kobayashi Maru
Kobayashi Maru
Section 31
Thousands of users
United States Space Force
Combined Space
Operations Center (CSpOC)
7 application teams, 9+ applications,
30+ developers
Cloud Native Platform
Built on Cloud Foundry
Strategy - Planning - Tasking - Support
Space Tasking Cycle
Delivers capabilities that
support
25. Separation of concern between types of leaders
Portfolio Team
focuses on delivery of
product outcomes.
Director(s) handle
budgets, allocations,
external enterprise
priorities, and thinking
about how to scale.
Practice Leadership /
“Managers” focus on
practice health and
practitioner growth.
29. Portfolio Product Strategy
INPUTS
● Research done by Portfolio Team
● Research done by product teams
● Mission Value (based on stakeholder
feedback)
● Organizational Value (value to
teams/products outside our portfolio)
● What are teams currently working on
OUTPUTS
● Portfolio Bet
● Vision Statement
● Outcomes Cascade
● OKRs (Portfolio and Team-Level)
● Portfolio Milestones
● System Roadmap
30. What are OKRs
Objectives
“Where do I want to go?”
Key Results
“How do I know if I’m getting
there?”
OKRs help with:
● Focus
● Alignment
● Commitment
● Measurement
● Ambition
36. Stakeholder Management
We collaborate with mission
stakeholders ensuring they
understand our approach and
collaborate on defining the
higher level desired outcomes
and objectives that cascade to
the team level.
37. What is Mission Value
User Value
Business Value ��
In the commercial world...
User Value
Mission Value
In our DoD world...
39. Examples: Working Closely with Teams
● Fortnightly check-ins
● Help with risks or blockers
● Pair on user stories / solve engineering challenges
● Attend and collaborate on user interviews
● OKR development
● Prioritization of efforts on their roadmap
43. OUR PORTFOLIO DELIVERY MODEL HAS ALLOWED US TO
Meet the bigger integrated mission system
that the DoD is used to getting
44. OUR PORTFOLIO DELIVERY MODEL HAS ALLOWED US TO
Meet the bigger integrated mission system
that the DoD is used to getting,
while delivering incremental capabilities to
operators along the way
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