Agile Brazil 2012

Johanna Rothman é uma renomada consultora no mundo ágil, que ajuda seus clientes a lidar com difíceis questões do mercado atual relacionadas a gestão de portfolio e projetos, contratação e retenção de talentos e aceleração de releases. É fundadora do Rothman Consulting Group e uma líder reconhecida na comunidade Agile. Já publicou diversos livros. Veja os links na lista abaixo:

• Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management,
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (com Esther Derby),
• Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds,
• Corrective Action for the Software Industry (com Denise Robitaille) e
• Manage Your Project Portfolio, Increase Your Capacity and Finish more Projects,

                                                sendo este último o mais recente.

Sua apresentação tem por título Agile Portfolio Planning: Managing Your Project Portfolio

O resumo está abaixo em inglês:

Whether you’ve been agile for a while or still thinking about it, I bet you have one thing
in common with all other software teams I know—you have too much work to do. Agile
will make that transparent. But what do you do about it?

The best choice is to manage the project portfolio. And, not only can you use agile and
lean approaches to your projects, you can use agile and lean approaches to your project
portfolio.

But, when you think of project portfolio management, do you think of dog-and-pony
shows? Or, crazy math? Or, are your managers so accustomed to thinking that you should
multitask when you tell them you don’t have enough people to staff projects? Do you
see value-less pet projects that you would like to eliminate? With agile, you don’t need
any of these. All you need is project demos and a straightforward discussion of business
value.

In this presentation, Johanna will show you how an agile and lean approach to the
project portfolio can help both technical staff and management see what’s going on, how
to apply agile and lean to the project portfolio, and how to collaborate to make great
portfolio decisions.

If you need 3 bullets about what people will learn:

- provide transparency for what everyone is doing

- how to apply agile and lean approaches to the project portfolio

- principles of collaboration for the project portfolio