Contents
Building Organizational Responsiveness
Toward a Customer-Value Fitness Function
It’s Not Easy, Just Imperative
A Digital Enterprise: Technology at the Core
Developing a Technology Strategy
Investment Decisions to Revitalize Core Enterprise Systems
Who Creates Your Technology Strategy?
Lightweight Planning and Governance
Self-Sufficient, Collaborative Decision Making
Chapter 4: Building a Value-Driven Portfolio
Strategy and the Lean Value Tree
Defining Goals, Bets, and Initiatives
Describing a Value-Driven Portfolio
Adding a New Bet or Initiative
Chapter 5: Measuring and Prioritizing Value
Identifying Measures of Success
Using MoS to Align and Differentiate Portfolios
Managing the Strategic Backlog
Chapter 6: Building a Product Mindset
Moving from Projects to Products
The Role of Product People in Organizations
Product and Portfolio Team Collaboration
Defining Products and the Connection to the LVT
How Products Are Derived from the LVT
Core Elements of a Product Blueprint
What a Product Blueprint Is and Is Not
Visualizing and Communicating Product Blueprints
Creating Agile Product Backlogs
Why MVP Is Just a Starting Conversation
Thin Slicing: An Alternative Approach to MVP
Chapter 7: Integrating Strategic and Business as Usual Portfolios
Combining Strategic and BAU Portfolios
Relative versus Absolute Value
Chapter 8: Lightweight Governance
The Lost Objectives of Governance
Establishing Lightweight Governance
Periodic Value Review Dashboard
Chapter 9: Autonomous Teams and Collaborative Decision Making
Team Composition: From Cross-Functional to Self-Sufficient Teams
Creating an Environment That Fosters Autonomy
Collaborative, Self-Sufficient Decisions
Aligning Organizations to Business Capability
Chapter 10: Adaptive Leadership
Overcoming the Culture of Fear
The Thin-Slice Change Strategy