Agile Portfolio and Program Management (ICP-DAS)

Day 1

1. Introduction – Agile Mindset preview
2. What is Portfolio and Program Management
3. Strategic Alignment
4. Lean Thinking
   • Customer Defines Value
     • Ideas/Concepts/Realities that are driving the world
       • Speed of Change
       • Innovation
       • Disruption
       • Lean Startup
     • Adaptive Planning
       • Five Levels of Planning
       • Geodesic Planning – the shortest path to results
   • Map the Value Stream
     • A Process that delivers Value to the Customer
   • Continuous Flow
   • Pull not Push
   • Strive for Perfection
     • Eliminate Waste
     • A System designed to produce the right results
       • The right paradigms and mental models
       • Transition into Building a System
5. The Agile Paradigm
   • Manifesto
   • Principles
6. The Agile Team – A System
   • Systems Thinking – Seeing the Whole
   • Creating a System that produces desired results
7. Agile Practices – part of the System
8. Summary of the Paradigm Change
   • The Agile Game – might end up as begin of day 2

Day 2

1. Agile Program Management – Building a Business Value Generator
   
   • Vision
   • Time
   • Culture
2. Vision – What is our Value Proposition
   
   • The Ideation Process
   • Getting Ideas that will produce Value to the Customer
     
     • Ethnographic Research
     • Effective Communication
     • The User – Roles and Personas
     • Brainstorming
     • The A3 Process of Problem Solving
     • Making Investment Decision
3. Time – Execution
   
   • Scaling Agile above the Team to the Enterprise
     
     • Waves of Agile
     • Scaling Methodologies
       
       1. Similar Organizational Structures
     • SAFe – Digging Deeper into Scaling to provide Program Management
       
       1. The Idea Funnel
       2. Review Process
       3. Analysis Queue
       4. Implementation
          
          • Release Planning (PI Planning)
          • The Iteration Calendar
          • Coordination –
            
            • Scrum of Scrums
            • PO Sync
            • Release Management
            • Retrospectives
       5. Done
          
          • The Definition of Done
            
            • Levels
   • Culture
     
     • Transforming your organization
       
       • John Kotter path to Change
       • Getting to a re-wiring – Culture is Anchored
   • Wrap-up