Xebia is hosting a series of Webinars to inspire you about relevant topics in Digital Transformation, Digital Management and Business Agility.

Missed the Webinar: Setting up an Effective Agile Portfolio Management of Friday, March 19, 2021, 10.00 am CET? No worries. Register on the right side and enjoy the Webinar!

Value delivery is essential for growth as well as for the effective adoption of Agile practices.Webinar Effective Agile Portfolio Management Strategy needs to be effectively aligned with execution. However, what if delivering or demonstrating value is complicated by internal complexity, lack of business integration and lack of accountability? It certainly put a stress on transitioning towards Agile way of working and on the resources. As a result, the value promised by Agile is not unlocked. Whether its organizational complexity with strong waterfall control processes, or lack of cross-unit alignment, lack of ownership in decision making or lack of understanding of the Agile Portfolio Management (PM) fundamentals – there is a way to make it work and make Agile PM a catalyst of strategic alignment and of your Digital & Agile transformation.

Xebia's Digital and Agile Transformation Consultants Daria Nozhkina and Theo Gerrits, as well as the industry thought leader and practitioner Robert de Moed, Portfolio Manager at Philips DMEC, will be sharing crucial insights and experiences to help you get your Agile PM working for you, not against you.

Language: English

Target Audience
Portfolio Managers, Digital or Agile Transformation Leads, and Digital/IT/Business Unit Leads.

Why you should watch the Webinar?
This webinar will inspire you to prioritize Agile PM, give insights into where to best start and how to eliminate typical bottlenecks.

Agenda
  • Introduction to Agile Portfolio Management (PM): what is it and why is it important
  • Bi-modal organization: how do you efficiently organize PM in a company that combines Agile and Waterfall?
  • Solutions: which hurdles might you encounter and how to deal with them?

The Experts and Speakers

Robert_de_MoedRobert de Moed is Portfolio Manager at Philips DMEC (Digital Marketing and E-Commerce). His task is to structure value delivery and enable an Agile way of working at the same time. He previously helped the DMEC organization in its Agile transformation and has many years of experience building innovation capabilities within the organizations.

 

©NFP-190078-498-3Daria Nozhkina is a Digital Strategy and Transformation Consultant at Xebia. A strong professional with 10+ years of international consulting and industry experience. She has helped globally renowned companies define and execute strategic improvements and was at the forefront of many digital transformations. Daria is a Product Owner of ‘Explore and Diagnose Digital & Agile Transformation’ proposition at Xebia, helping organizations design strategic change optimized for value delivery. 

 

Theo-Gerrits_Xebia-AcademyTheo Gerrits started working in the ICT in 1994 and has joined Xebia in 2007 as an Agile Consultant. He has performed multiple roles, such as: business/management consultant, trainer/coach, (enterprise) architect, auditor, (business) analyst and project manager. Theo’s current interest is in Agile Performance Management: combining the Agile philosophy and a result-driven mindset to measurably enable organizations to achieve their objectives/goals.

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