Klaus Nielson talks about his personal journey as a product manager, his passion for writing based on his need to understand. How scaling of Agile, and hybrid models of portfolio management is challenging. He talks about how he uses knowledge to solve these challenges. He sees agile portfolio management and the value management office as the next frontier. Be believes that the commercial methodologies will solve the missing element in the next 5 plus years.

As hosts, we engaged in a more spirited way in hosting Klaus's and the telling of his agility narrative. This may be a pattern that will evolve for future podcasts.

Enjoy - Klaus has great knowledge of this topic whether working at team, portfolio or organization level. I wonder whether it is the commercial engines of these methodologies that will solve the scaling challenge or will it be the customers?

Check out Klaus's book at Amazon or LinkedIn profile or company website.
Want to learn more about the co-hosts - Martin's LinkedIn Profile and Janet's LinkedIn profile

0:00 Welcome
0:48 Early part of Klaus journey
3:11 Klaus's experience with predictive product management
4:18 Introduction to Agile methods as part of predictive projects
5:16 Approach to Agile - Mindset, Lean, Foundational writing, tools, artifacts... trace it back to Agile Manifesto, Lean...
7:08 Initially it was Agile at team level, now it is about many teams, portfolios & transformation
8:03 Is it the structure or the mindset? Challenging of mindset change
9:22 Best practice, adoption of methods including portfolio management and going full hearted
11:02 What in SAFe is not having Agile portfolio management
11:56 Who is the protagonist in your agility narrative? Leaders as part of a top down implementation
13:21 Having the type of conversations prior to buying and adopting a methodology
14:24 Does Agile allow for experimentation at team levels? Or is it the structure?
15:54 Do you see Xscale as descaling or as another form of scaling?
16:33 Adopting pattern as an approach to adopting a methodology. Xscale and Disciplined Agile
18:30 Working with people and type of dialogues or the type of conversation that support the scale processes
19:50 Does the type of dialogue impact the end goal?
20:33 Acceptance of constraints outside a team's control
22:08 What needs to happen in the team to leadership conversations for that relationship to be more effective?
23:18 Klaus's theme of agility narrative
24:46 What is your calling in the agile world? A new one every day
25:50 What are the constraints to being able to respond effectively in your responsive adaptive approach?
26:47 What are the constraints that people in the value management office are facing?
28:06 How to manage leads us to key capabilities? And Attention to how we listen?
30:06 Professional judgement - tailoring of frameworks
31:22 What is at stake here? Life and death for an organization.
33:30 What is Klaus's call to action to our group of leaders?
35:12 Summary of Klaus's approach. From where you stand, what are the threats and opportunities you see?
37:53 How do you see us progressing over the next five years?
39:19 End and the Thank You's
39:35 Chatting about various topics