Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd Edition

People Finish More with Lean and Agile

As you’re measuring project value and making progress on your project portfolio, you might notice the following phenomenon: your staff finishes more features, your projects finish earlier, and you have fewer emergencies as you integrate agile approaches and lean thinking into your projects.

Because people focus on one project at a time, complete the most valuable features first, and complete features for every timebox, project teams build their capacity. And, as managers use lean and agile approaches for the project portfolio, they need fewer teams on large programs, and they finish projects and programs faster.

I’ve seen two big reasons for building capacity:

• Teams have either dramatically reduced ...