1. Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean Software Enterprise @ Cloud 2011/Q2 review 14.6.2011 Jarno Vähäniitty (jarno.vahaniitty@aalto.fi) Software Process Research Group SoberIT To see all Aalto WP2 results per quarter, Google for ”Aalto WP2 results”

2. Five topic alternatives for today: “Levels of portfolio management in a lean software enterprise” (10 votes) ”How the product backlog really works - results from a systematic study of research and practitioner literature” (8 votes) “Towards agile product and portfolio management” (5) “Backlog management tool requirements for the lean software enterprise” (2) “Transparent collaboration and progress follow-up of research themes in Aalto WP#2 using Agilefant” (1)

3. Audience demographics Please raise your hand if… –You are a university-paid researcher –You are an industrial participant

4. Audience demographics

5. Overview of this ”collaboration thread” Cloud Software Program 2011 Deliverable: BP for Scaling Agile Collaboration Thread: Linking Strategy with Action in Lean/agile R&D Organizations Jarno Vähäniitty Publication: ”Towards Agile Product and Portfolio Management” (Ph.D. Jarno Vähäniitty, submitted to preliminary examination 6/2011) Aalto University Software Process Research Group (SPRG) Focus area: Software Product Management Publication: ”Blind Men and the Product Backlog” Submission to Journal of Empirical Software Engineering in Q3-Q4/2011 Presentation: ”Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean Software Enterprise” (Q2/2011 review) Today For all results by Aalto WP2 per quarter, Google for ”Aalto WP2 results” WP#2: Lean Software Enterprise

6. ”Cloud Makes R&D Harder”

8. The Product Backlog – Far From Simple! “Product backlog as a prioritized, constantly emerging list of work” (Ambler 2008b)

9. The Product Backlog – Far From Simple! Sections in the product backlog, adapted from (Schiel 2009)

10. The Product Backlog – Far From Simple! The product planning iceberg, adapted from (Keith 2010) – who got it from (Cohn 2009)

11. Blind Men and the Product Backlog ”It is a …” –List of ”everything that needs to be done” but idea pool kept separate –Transcends any single release; sections: Ongoing iteration Up next Ongoing release Future releases –Prioritized & elaborated just-in-time Driven by vision => product & business goals Ongoing iteration / Immediate future –Ordered sequentially –Estimated in man-hours Further ahead –Estimated in abstract units –Order ”less sequential” A flat list … and a hierarchy!

12. “Product roadmap” = a View of the High Level Goals in PBL (Vähäniitty 2011)

13. Planning levels in Agile SW Development (Smits 2007, Cohn 2005)

14. Planning Levels and Work Item Hierarchy (Vähäniitty 2011)

15. Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean Software Enterprise (Vähäniitty 2011)

16. Portfolio Management as Business Level Investment Setting

17. Portfolio Management as High Level Goal Setting

18. Portfolio Management as Project Resourcing Decisions Adapted from (Shalloway 2009)

19. Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean SW Enterprise (Vähäniitty 2011)

20. Levels of Portfolio Management in a Lean SW Enterprise (Vähäniitty 2011) Thank You! Questions & Comments? Want a training session on this? Will Doodle for it later…