This eBook starts by identifying the key characteristics of a disruption-ready organization and outlines four essential best practices for effective product portfolio prioritization amidst the backdrop of disruption.
Proactive product organizations need a portfolio management strategy with two key components:
- An organizational mindset that allows them to adapt effectively in the face of disruptions:
- Organizational readiness
- Resilience
- Suite of capability-driven best practices for effective reprioritization:
- Continuous portfolio reviews using real-time, connected data.
- Sharing highly visual scenario modeling and product portfolio roadmaps.
- Application of lean and agile practices.
- Technology investment to tie capabilities into a single source of truth and collaboration.
If I compare this with measures to become a more discovery-based portfolio management organization, I see several similarities and some missed opportunities to cope with disruption (see figure below from the book Agile Portfolio Management – The bridge to strategic agility)
Similarities:
- Highly visual scenario modelling and roadmaps: Strategy changeability.
- Continuous portfolio reviews using real-time, connected data: validation focus, decision-factors.
- Application of lean and agile methodologies / accelerate innovation: execution mindset.
- Learning and continuous improvement: improving portfolio management.
Missed opportunities:
- Cycle-time/horizon: A faster heartbeat offers more opportunities to react.
- Result orientation: Decline in delivered value could be a signal for possible disruption.
- Decision making structure: business owners and POs are must closer to the external world and can bring potential disruption earlier to the portfolio table.
- Execution flexibility: development process that offers more opportunities to react.
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