Decoding Portfolio Management in Agile Scrum Enterprise
Being agile enables the software development groups in Enterprises to deliver high value and high quality software with speed. However legacy applications along with the overall Enterprise landscape pose their own challenges that are outside of the scrum framework to solve.
Multiple small scrum teams though working on separate applications need to be cohesive with a big picture. As a portfolio lead, who owns multiple applications and teams related to a portfolio within an Enterprise is a Chicken in scrum terminology. The expectation from the role is that of leader, scrum master as well as an Architect providing technical and functional oversight to the teams within the portfolio. This session is about a retrospective of our work life as a Portfolio Lead who takes care of multiple scrum teams, and applications. We would like to speak about the top 3 challenges faced such as Scaling Production Support / Knowledge Retention for applications delivered through Scrum, Impact of Organizational Transformation initiatives on the scrum teams, People challenges in scrum teams and Multiple Stakeholder Expectations / Conflict Management through real life examples of our work. We would retrospect what we did, and discuss and debate what worked well, and what did not.
Outline/structure of the Session
Proposed duration 45 minutes. We would like to conduct the session as a talk, discussing through the top 3 challenges as we retrospect about each of the issues that we faced related to that. We would summarize each of those, and interact with the audience to understand their opinion and experiences. This session is a Case Study where we would like to perform a retrospective of my work life as a Portfolio Lead who takes care of multiple scrum teams, and applications. The session would focus on top 3 challenges faced:
- Production Support / Knowledge Retention for applications delivered through Scrum
- People challenges the scrum teams
- Multiple Stakeholder Expectations / Conflict Management
We would spend a few minutes setting the context so that the audience can relate to the challenges that we speak about. Then we would jump into discussing the three points mentioned above. For each of the points mentioned, we would walk the through real life examples of my work detailing the issue. We would speak about what we or our group did to address the same. Then we would retrospect what We did, and discuss and debate what worked well, and what did not during the same. It would be an interactive session where the audience would also be involved as we would love to engage the audience in the retrospective discussion.
Learning Outcome
Audience would have the following key takeaways:
- Understand and Identify the challenges associated with scaling scrum adoption for multiple inter-related teams
- Listen in to the real life problems faced by a portfolio lead
- Discuss and Debate as we retrospect why certain problems or situations occured, what worked well and what failed
- Take back ideas to apply while leading multiple inter-related scrum teams
Target Audience
Portfolio managers, project managers,
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Thanks for proposing this topic, Yashasree. It appears that this proposal was already presented at another conference. Can you please share the video from that conference?
Hi Yashasree,
I see quite a bit of duplication between the abstract, outline and learning outcome. Can you please refactor the proposal to eliminate all the duplication? Also can you please update your proposal and list down (bullet points) the learning outcome from this session?