Agile Brambles | Helping you find paths to fruitful dialogue
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Description: My thoughts on Product and portfolio management, Agile and lean approaches, User experience, and Leadership
First let’s ensure how I am looking at portfolio management is understood. I’ll use this fairly common definition: it’s the oversight of a set of investments being made for meeting a set of objectives. Since we’re dealing with a set of investments, there are a few lenses that we can apply to view them. This post will take a look at the first of a few lenses we can use to develop suitable metrics.
The first lens is what I’ll call the SEE lens. It stands for sustainability, effectiveness, and efficiency. Just to give you an understanding of where future posts will go, I’ll review the other lenses.
The second lens is one of where an investment is in its life-cycle; is it a new product or service, one that is being matured (i.e. trying to be grown), is it mature, or is it one that the organization is retiring? The third lens I’ll call a spatial lens and is tied to either market segments or geography. You could apply both, but I’d be careful to ensure that the delineation is needed. BTW, geography doesn’t have to be what we generally think of regions, countries, et cetera. It may be more appropriate in
Agile Brambles | Helping you find paths to fruitful dialogue
AgileCoachesOath – First, do no harm