Lean Portfolio Management: The Key to Enterprise Agility

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is an approach that integrates lean and agile principles to manage portfolios comprising projects, initiatives, and investments. As organizations seek agility at a larger scale, LPM presents an avenue to refine strategic planning, funding, and resource allocation.

Every organization is unique, and agility doesn't come with a one-size-fits-all manual. To assist the journey, the Business Agility Institute and ICAgile have co-developed guiding principles for Lean Portfolio Management. This article offers a deep dive into those principles...

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What are micro-credentials and why should you care?

   ‘Micro-credential’ is fast becoming a ubiquitous buzzword not only in the education industry but in corporate and government sectors as well. To some it’s being sold as the saviour to every capability problem ever created, to others it’s seen as just more of the same old learning “repackaged…
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Quiet Quitting: A Symptom We Should Address, Not Demonise

      In recent months, the term “quiet quitting” has entered the cultural lexicon, striking fear into the hearts of managers and leaders everywhere. On the surface, the concept seems straightforward: employees doing only the bare minimum required of them, disengaging from going “above and beyond…
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Is your skills strategy future-proof?

      In the rapidly evolving business landscape, organisations face a pressing challenge: bridging the skills gap in their workforce. The skills gap, a disparity between employees' skills and those required for their roles, is widening due to technological advancements, market shifts, and changing…
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You already have a career portfolio – how to leverage it to maximise your potential

In today's dynamic and globalised job market, the concept of a "career portfolio" is more relevant than ever. This term, originally coined by Charles Handy in the 1990s, has evolved to represent a collection of one's diverse skills, experiences, and roles. It's a powerful tool that allows…
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Mastering the Product Mindset: The Key to Unlocking Value Creation, Agility, and Sustained Competitive Advantage

By: David Mantica, VP and GM SoftEd US  Introduction  In today's dynamic and competitive market, adopting a product mindset is crucial for businesses to create and deliver value to their customers. This article will discuss the importance of understanding the product mindset, incorporating value…
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Our Brain Is Not Made for Knowledge Work

By David Mantica  Humans have not evolved for knowledge work and we must fight against our evolutionary setup to effectively function in a complex business world. Understanding this can help us manage stress and work environments, and ultimately execute tasks with value. Our brains have evolved for…
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What is Value?

By: David Mantica  The concept of value plays a crucial role in software project management and Agile methodologies. In this article, we'll explore the various dimensions of value, including customer value, business value, and technical value. We'll also discuss how to measure, prioritize, and…
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A day in the life of a coach

Sharon Robson is an agile coach based in Australia. She talks us through an average working day and why is an essential part of professional development.   "It is important, as a coach, that when I engage with people it is always with intent This takes planning, so I wake early to give myself time…
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Know your enemy: The role of DevOps security in protecting business reputation and data

By 2025, humanity’s collective data will amount to 175 zettabytes.    That’s: 175,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.     It includes everything from healthcare, personal finance data, business intellectual property, corporate finance, right through to your profile and pictures on dating apps.    At the same…
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Business data analytics: Using data to power better business decisions

Business data analytics combines business intelligence, data science, statistics, and business analysis techniques to reveal patterns or trends and predict business performance.      You've probably heard the saying that "data is the new oil. " While it's not new, it's truer now than ever. In a world…
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The Adaptive Project Manager Skills Series: Understanding Adaptive Problems

One, if not the, most powerful skill adaptive leaders have is diagnosis. In fact, in "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership," Ronald Heifetz et al. says: "The single most important skill and most undervalued capacity for exercising adaptive leadership is diagnosis. " Why?  Guiding resources to or…
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