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Maximize Your Portfolio's Potential: Play to Win
Can you improve the value your portfolio generates?
Gain insights through a fun, interactive, and highly engaging business simulation that makes abstract principles like cost of delay tangible and actionable. Discover the power of outcome-driven organizing and its impact on success.
Experience two contrasting scenarios: traditional resource management versus a value-focused approach. Gain valuable insights into improving value flow, reducing risk, and minimizing cost of delay.
Through reflection, debriefing, and insightful discussions, connect the experience with practical strategies applicable to your own context.
This workshop is tailored for individuals eager to optimize value delivery, minimize risks, and enhance overall performance in their organizations.
This half day workshop will help you
Optimise Value
Are you working on the highest value work that is strategically aligned?
Improve data driven decisions
Learn how to measure and track value, reduce risks, and increase their chances of success.
Improve engagement
Learn how to achieve shared goals, leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise to create high-performing teams.
Learning Objectives
Cultural Shift: Create an aha-moment about the culture change that happens when a traditional portfolio management approach for enterprise change initiative, starts to focus on value.
Startup Behaviours: Embrace "Startup" behaviours by thinking in terms of placing bets and measuring results, rather than just resource administration.
Cost of Delay: Understand the concept of cost of delay and how it evolves over time, impacting decision-making and prioritization.
Thin Slices of Value: Learn the benefits of delivering thin slices of value, enabling initiatives to be halted when their value profile declines, thus optimizing resource allocation.
Long-Lived Product Teams: Recognize the advantages of maintaining long-lived product teams with fewer handoffs and less role specialization, leading to enhanced collaboration and efficiency.
Limiting Work in Progress: Comprehend the financial benefits of limiting work in progress, improving overall portfolio performance and delivery timelines.
Maintaining Portfolio Optionality: Appreciate the importance of maintaining portfolio optionality, allowing for pivots at any stage and moving away from rigid annual planning cycles.
What to expect
This in-person workshop is set around two rounds of business simulation, and concludes with a comprehensive discussion of key takeaways. Compare different results across multiple teams, fostering a competitive yet collaborative learning environment.
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This board game requires teams of 3-5 seated at cabaret-style tables. Having multiple tables allows different results to be compared and creates a sense gamification.
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‘Training from Back of the Room’ style: connect with attendees, play two rounds of business simulation and draw out key conclusions. approx 3 hrs total.
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Private Slack channel & enrolment in BVSSH Community
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Tree planted for every course participant
Happier means happier colleagues, customers, citizens and climate.
Through our registered UK charity partner treesisters we will fund the planting of a tree for every candidate.
Over its life this will absorb approx. 200 times more than the CO2 emitted by your participation in a two day remote class
Why we love this workshop
Get ready for half a day of interactive and practical learning. Through case studies, group discussions, and hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to visualise flow, limit work in progress, and optimise for value.
Can you improve the value your portfolio generates? Discover the power of outcome-driven organizing and its impact on success. Experience two contrasting scenarios: traditional resource management versus a value-focused approach. Gain valuable insights into improving value flow, reducing risk, and minimizing cost of delay.
This workshop is great for :
This workshop is tailored for individuals eager to optimize value delivery, minimize risks, and enhance overall performance in their organizations. Perfect for your next off-site or team day!
Head of Change
Programme
Leads
PMO teams
COO's
Center of Enablement Leads & Coaches
Ways of Working Leads or Consultants
Our Trainers
Our expert facilitators are able to spend more or less time on particular concepts as guided by participants so learning can be prioritised where it will be most valuable, and make sure that the core concepts are covered in the program.
Delivered virtually or in-person through back-of-the-room facilitation, we offer different training programs and courses that are engaging and interactive. Participants can sign-up for the publicly offered courses or private in-house sessions can be organised for groups within an organisation.
Chris Hughes
Chris is a business agility leader and coach with over 25 years experience. His experience spans a number of roles and industries and is a key driver in defining business strategy, product development and the transformation of companies in the tech, travel, entertainment and financial industry. Chris is a strong advocate for customer centric approaches to product design, development, marketing and sales.
Jonathan Smart
Jon is co-founder and CEO of SSH. Jon is a business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach. Jon has been an agile and lean practitioner since the early 1990s. Jon helps large organisations deliver better value sooner, safer and happier through better ways of working. He is the lead author of the award winning and bestselling 'Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility'.
Kim Atherton
Kim, with a background as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, works as a leadership consultant with senior leaders in more than 40 countries. Kim has deep expertise in leadership assessment, development and training. Kim is also the CEO and founder of Just3Things, OKR software which was developed while she was the Chief People Officer at Ovo Energy.
Marcus Braszell
Marcus is a Partner and Americas region leader. His extensive experience leading change in large and complex environments spans financial services, retail, travel, government and defence sectors. Marcus has led business agility at National Australia Bank (NAB), WooliesX, Latitude Financial, and Walmart Canada. A pragmatic, forward thinking senior leader with deep c-level engagement experience, Marcus possesses a commercial approach to innovation and a strong drive to foster people-focused and adaptive organisations.
Marcus Ward
Marcus is an experienced Business Agility Consultant, Coach, Trainer and Facilitator of Lean, Agile and Organisational Change with a passion for enabling organisations of all sizes to achieve high performance through pragmatic use of Agile, Lean and collaborative techniques. Marcus holds over 15 years’ experience across various sectors in Agile/Waterfall Portfolio, Program and Change Management.
Maria Muir
Maria is a Partner and Asia-Pacific region leader. Maria is an enterprise agility pioneer and has been working with early adopters in Asia-Pacific since 2010. She is a pragmatic, outcomes-focused, people-first leader with extensive consulting, start-up, and leadership experience. Maria has led and advised transformations at 10+ ASX200 companies across sectors including financial services, telecommunications, retail, and energy & resources.
Mark Hills
Mark is a Partner and EMEA region leader. He is a highly capable, outcome focused enterprise agility partner coach and practitioner with over 20 years’ blue-chip experience. Mark thrives on the intellectual and people challenge Ways of Working engagements present and would describe his mindset as ‘player coach’, keen to lead by example.
Matt Turner
Matt has over 20 years leading IT and business services, coaching and training teams in lean and agile practices, across various industries and sectors. Matt is fascinated by enterprise flow, the psychology of change, and behavioural economics. Accredited BVSSH and Kanban University Trainer. Contributing author of Agile an Unexpected Journey.
Myles Ogilvie
Myles is co-founder and COO of SSH. As a principal business agility coach and trainer with many years' experience across industries, Myles advocates no-nonsense problem-solving, seeks to build transparency, improve collaboration, and enable outcomes that produce Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. Myles' special interest is patterns that foster a safer, leaner and more innovative controls culture.
Zsolt Berend
Zsolt is an agility practitioner coach and trainer. He helps global organisations on their journey to achieving Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. He began his early career as a fellow of research in astronomy, and then spent 20 years across industry sectors in various roles applying agile and lean practices. His passion is data, measurements, insights and the creation of learning organizations.
