How To Shift from Project to Product at the Portfolio level – A Scrum.org Community Q&A Podcast


A primary focus of mine these days is helping Leaders who want to shift their organizations from a project to a product mindset figure out how to scale their product orientation to a multi-product environment. They want to apply product thinking to their strategic initiatives that extend beyond the product organization.

This is what we refer to as Product Portfolio Management.

A few weeks ago, I joined Dave West and Darrell Fernandes on the Scrum.org Community Podcast to help answer key questions about Agile product portfolio management from a recent webinar.

In the conversation we:

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Yours,

Yuval

PS Which questions do YOU have about the shift from Project to Product thinking? Happy to answer them here...

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