Slides as presented at the St. Louis Agile Product Ownership Meetup, Dec. 10, 2018. https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Product-Ownership/events/tnhplqyxqbnb/

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PORTFOLIO KANBAN
St. Louis Product Ownership Meetup | December 2018

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TONIGHT’S TOPICS!
To Do Doing Done
Kanban
(Review)
Cost of
Delay
Portfolio
Kanban
Options

3. KANBAN METHOD
A Quick Review
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KANBAN PRINCIPLES
Change Management Service Delivery
Start with what you do now (understanding
current processes, respecting roles and titles).
Understand and focus on your customers’
needs and expectations.
Agree to pursue improvement through
evolutionary change.
Manage the work; let people self-organize
around it.
Encourage acts of leadership at every level—
from the individual
contributor to senior management.
Evolve policies to improve customer and
business outcomes.

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KANBAN PRACTICES
Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally.
To Do Doing (3) Done
Make work visible. Limit work in progress (create pull) Manage flow.
Make policies explicit.
Implement feedback loops.
Begin 10
days
before due
date
Due:
Dec 25

6. PORTFOLIO KANBAN
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FLIGHT LEVELS

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SCALING KANBAN: WIDTH-WISE

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UPSTREAM KANBAN

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SCALING KANBAN: HEIGHT-WISE

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MULTI-LEVEL KANBAN SYSTEM

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COMPANY BETS BOARDS

13. OPTIONS
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A STORY ABOUT OPTIONS

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OPTIONS
Options have value
Options expire
Never commit early,
Unless you know why

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COMMITMENT POINT CREATES OPTIONALITY
?
Request
Request Commitment Point
Discard
Deliver

17. COST OF DELAY
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COST OF DELAY
Potential to sell
Unitssold/day
Nov 28
(When we need it)
Dec 25

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COST OF DELAY
Potential to sell
Unitssold/day
Nov 28
(When we need it)
Dec 25
Dec 10
(When we got it)
Cost of Delay
Actual sold

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COST-OF-DELAY ARCHETYPES

21. SELECTING, SCHEDULING
AND SEQUENCING
A worked example of Portfolio Kanban’s “3 S’s”
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COST OF DELAY
Potential to sell
Unitssold/day
Nov 28
(When we need it)
Dec 25

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WHEN SHOULD WE START?
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 391…

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THIS IS CLEARLY TOO LATE
Potential to sell
Unitssold/day
Nov 28 Dec 25
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 3
0%
1…

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THIS IS CLEARLY TOO LATE
Unitssold/day
Nov 28 Dec 25
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 3
0% 50%
1…

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BUT STARTING TOO EARLY IS COSTLY
Potential to sell
Unitssold/day
Nov 28 Dec 25
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
>99%
Oct
19

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HEDGE BY RISK, DEFER COMMITMENT
Potential to sell
Unitssold/day
Nov 28 Dec 25
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
85%
Nov
2

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VIEW ALL OPTIONS

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FURTHER EXPLORATION
• Essential Kanban Condensed, David Anderson and Andy Carmichael
• Essential Upstream Kanban, Patrick Steyaert
• Commitment: A Novel about Managing Project Risk, Chris Matts and Olav Maassen
• Matthias Patzak, http://lkce17.leankanbance.com/assets/slides2017/LKCE17_MatthiasPatzak.pdf
• https://kanbanize.com/kanban-resources/portfolio-kanban/what-is-portfolio-kanban/
• John Cutler