Agile portfolio management and organizational transformation
Portfolio reviews reduced from two days to two hours
Anonymized project example
Situation
Real estate organization
The organization needed to strengthen customer focus and agile delivery while reducing costs and managing necessary workforce restructuring.
- Customer orientation
- Strategic portfolio priorities
- Cost and workforce restructuring
- Ownership and agile working
Project scope
Portfolio management and transformation support
Agile project portfolio management at executive level, combined with leadership and organizational development.
Key enablers
- Executive portfolio management: introduce agile project portfolio governance and reviews at executive level.
- Workforce restructuring: support the organization through necessary workforce changes.
- Agile cost-reduction programs: support two organization-wide projects with three to five Scrum teams each.
- Leadership and team development: develop senior leaders and coach Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
- Culture and transformation communication: develop a corporate and leadership mission statement and support communication.
Impact
Leaner portfolio reviews
Massively reduced effort of the whole management team for quarterly portfolio reviews.
Workforce reduction supported
Including relocations and onboarding new leaders at all levels, practically without incidents according to the project material.
Leaders directly activated
Leaders engaged in the transformation and actively pursuing transformation impact.
Source: supplied Timmermann project material. The client is anonymized in this publication.
The project in detail
A real estate organization needed to strengthen customer focus and agile delivery while reducing costs and supporting necessary workforce restructuring.
Starting point
The organization needed clearer strategic portfolio priorities, stronger ownership, and reliable collaboration throughout substantial organizational change.
Our approach
- Introduce agile project portfolio management at executive level.
- Support necessary workforce restructuring, including relocations and onboarding new leaders.
- Support two organization-wide cost-reduction initiatives with three to five Scrum teams each.
- Develop senior leaders and coach Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
- Develop a corporate and leadership mission statement and support transformation communication.
Results and impact
- Reduce the management team's quarterly portfolio review effort from two days to two hours.
- Support a 15% workforce reduction, including relocations and onboarding new leaders at all levels, with virtually no incidents reported in the project material.
- Directly activate more than 100 leaders for the transformation.
An anonymized project example based on the supplied Timmermann project material.
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