Harnessing the Agile Engine with a product portfolio kanban

Location:Microsoft Technology Center, Quarry Oaks Atrium, Bldg. 2 – 2nd Fl., 10900 S. Stonelake Blvd. Austin, TX

While not often talked about, a “successful” Agile rollout often causes as much enterprise disruption as value it creates.

* Unfocused product strategy from a small band of product managers under siege by the realities of a unified backlog and a lot more work with no clear way to access the value they are creating.
* An operations or IT team used to a few dozen changes to production environments every few months, now overwhelmed by thousands of changes every few weeks with little lead-time or documentation.
* Professional services or implementations staff booked at a 100% being asked to, in parallel, learn significant new features in parallel and deploy them for customers and users often time sight unseen.
* Support and help desk staff that often gets calls for features they did not even know existed.
* Sales and Presales reps that can’t keep up and either fail to sell the new differentiated capabilities that have been developed, or “sell the organization into trouble” do to lack of training and enablement.

All of these erode the actual organizational value that could be returned by a well performing agile development organization. In this discussion we will look at one solution to these problems employed by Inovis, a large scale high performing agile organization. The Product Portfolio Kanban layers a Kanban flow on top of the agile delivery process to manage and optimize the delivery of organizational value.

Erik Huddleston, Chief Technology Officer for Inovis. Erik Huddleston drives the vision for Inovis products and technology and evangelizing the value of the Inovis offerings to the market. Erik has a strong track record of visionary technology leadership in Supply Chain, CRM, and multi enterprise collaboration.

Erik came to Inovis from the acquisition of BetweenMarkets, the leading provider of partner performance management applications, where he served as Founder and CTO. While at BetweenMarkets, Erik drove an agile product and development organization and helped dozens of the worlds leading organizations solve the Business Community Management challenges. Prior to founding BetweenMarkets in 2000, Erik architected consumer and retail analytics products at two enterprise software startups: eCustomers, a retail merchandising software provider; and SMART Technologies, a supply chain software provider acquired by i2 Technologies.

Cost: Free
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