Portfolio and Program Consulting

focus on outcomes.

How can you align governance and project and portfolio management with Agile processes and practices? How do you manage the change associated with Agile adoption?

Broader organizational issues are often overlooked in Agile transitions. Delivery teams are constrained when the other parts of the enterprise are not aligned with Agile processes. This results in frustrating planning sessions, lower team morale, and difficulty delivering high-quality products in a timely fashion. At the enterprise level this usually means that priorities are not communicated effectively and that teams are not provided the support and training they need to be successful.

LitheSpeed consultants are world leaders in scaling agile. We will partner with your organization to develop a mindful, strategic approach that best fits your organization, and helps you drive towards desired business outcomes.

WE HELP WITH

Agile Business Units

Build & accelerate revenue

Capture new marketplaces

Grow more customers and income

Improve responsiveness and nimbleness

Leadership & Scaling

Deliver large, complex programs using agile methods

Staffing models that better support organizational agility

Modern HR Systems

Agile funding models

DevOps

More frequent release capability

Lower risk releases

Repeatable deployment processes

Higher levels of trust

More frequent and thorough testing

Strategic Agile
consulting typically includes:

Executive coaching

Organizational transformation and change management strategy

Policy and governance guidance

Organizational structural recommendations

Agile roles & responsibilities & issues related to HR

Agile-appropriate methods of funding, budgeting, and finance

Agile program leadership and scaling guidance

Program portfolio management improvement

Release planning facilitation at the program level

Program level estimation, planning, and tracking

Work intake, prioritization, and sequencing methods

Multi-team planning and integration

Program metrics design and implementation

Real solutions with Trusted advisors

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Make a shift

Shift Left:
Agile Business Units

Shift from occasional large projects to continuous delivery of value in small units.
Speed planning and adaptation with a tight feedback loop between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
Pivot on demand with faster, more flexible financial planning and budgeting processes.

Shift up:
Leadership & Scaling

Enhance flow by expanding agile teams to include upstream business stakeholders and downstream operations.
Speed decisions by empowering teams as small entrepreneurial units that own the full product lifecycle.
Improve adaptation by equipping teams with more direct access to stakeholders and users.

Shift Right:
DevOps

Focus first on known bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline.
Get meaningful operational data around usage patterns, revenue and defects through the latest deployments.
Use the data to learn and improve both what you build and how you build it.

Our development team was in a state of disarray, we needed education, process, and solutions to the chaos. We were hoping Lithespeed could give us a base level of Scrum knowledge for the entire team as well as the executive team so we could be aligned in our efforts. We absolutely feel like the Lithespeed engagement gave us what we were asking for and more, they gave our team a sense of excitement for the process and what it could bring to the team.

- Sharlene Cooper, Product Owners Manager, DISA