Discover the main trends in Portfolio management
Want to learn more about portfolio management? Our recent trends report, written by Rini van Solingen and Martin van Langen at Xeleron, provides valuable insights. A key insight from our research is that it is primarily used to route (push) work to teams. Watch the video to learn all about this insight.
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Centric is an IT service provider with a significant market share in the public sector. Centric Public Sector Solutions is an organizational unit with more than 800 employees, responsible for all services for the public sector. Centric and Prowareness Xeleron have jointly invested heavily in recent years in increasing the agility of their organization at team and department level.
Martin van Langen
July 29, 2024
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Imagine you are running a goldmine. This goldmine is your organization, and the nuggets you hope to find are the valuable outcomes of your projects and initiatives. Let’s use this analogy to illustrate the difference between output-driven work and outcome-driven work.
Martin van Langen
July 19, 2024
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The second of the ten dimensions of Agile Portfolio Management is about limiting the amount of 'Work in Progress' (WIP). Many organizations work on too many initiatives at the same time, which makes the lead time of those initiatives too long. The trick is to not work on too much at the same time to speed up the lead time. This requires transparency and making choices, but also improving collaboration so that acceleration takes place.
Bas van Lieshout
July 17, 2024
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In today’s dynamic world, flexibility and adaptability are crucial. The book “Agile Portfolio Management” by Portman and Van Solingen describes how organizations can increase their strategic agility. The first of ten dimensions is about the time horizon of portfolio management. There are good reasons to get started with this, such as increasing the possibilities for adaptability and improving responsiveness.
Bas van Lieshout
July 15, 2024
White paper
In his latest whitepaper, Henny Portman reveals the steps and methodologies that demonstrate the importance of prioritization, with a tailor-made prioritization model. Practical examples from the Xeleron Cockpit Tool provide direct insight into how to implement these concepts. Curious? Read it now and discover how to improve your prioritization strategy.
Henny Portman
June 17, 2024
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PGGM is working on improving strategy execution with a multidisciplinary change team to increase transparency and sharpen decision-making. This allows the organization to add more and more value. Prowareness Xeleron supported PGGM Pensioenbeheer for six months in 2023 in improving strategy execution and increasing transparency.
Bas van Lieshout
May 17, 2024
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Do you want to know what the current trends are in portfolio management? Then download our trends report now. In this report we have conducted 12 interviews with various portfolio managers from various organizations. With them we investigate the state of affairs of portfolio management in the Netherlands and look at the desired flexibility and adaptability that is necessary in practice.
Martin van Langen
March 25, 2024
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The core of portfolio management is that the connection is made between strategy and execution. Many organizations are improving their portfolio management function, inspired by the need to be more agile in the translation of strategy to execution. This improvement is often supported by implementing Scrum, including the associated events.
Martin Vodegel
January 30, 2024
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The core of portfolio management is that it connects strategy and execution. Many organizations are improving their portfolio management function, inspired by the need to be more agile in the translation of strategy to execution. This improvement is often supported by the implementation of Scrum and the associated roles within the team.
Martin Vodegel
January 28, 2024
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The core of portfolio management is that it connects strategy and execution. Many organizations are improving their portfolio management function, inspired by the need to be more agile in the translation of strategy to execution. Scrum is often used to realize these improvements through the framework.
Martin Vodegel
December 10, 2023
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The Agile Portfolio Management 2023 guide describes the APfM framework without covering specific methods, techniques and tools, as success is context-dependent. Formulating goals is recognized as important, but the guide does not provide specific guidance. APfM functions as a whole and serves as a container for various techniques and methodologies. The goal is to share understanding, improve APfM implementation and receive feedback.
Martin Vodegel & Rini van Solingen
December 1, 2023
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In most organizations, strategy determination is a task for the top. The greater the dynamics and unpredictability, the smaller the chance that a successful strategy can be fully devised in advance. Rini van Solingen and Martin van Langen discuss why and how organizations in highly changeable environments can better opt for a purpose-oriented management, in which employees are given more autonomy.
Martin van Langen & Rini van Solingen
November 14, 2023
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The book “Agile Portfolio Management” discusses 10 dimensions for making portfolio management more flexible and contains three practical cases. Company visits and interviews with portfolio managers have led to the pattern of central control and standardization as a means to promote organizational agility. Although this seems to conflict with agile principles, it can be a necessary intermediate step in the pursuit of strategic agility.
Rini van Solingen
November 6, 2023
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A medium-sized insurer in the Netherlands has a renewed strategy to position itself in the market as a service provider focused on prevention in addition to insuring customers. This requires an active role from the portfolio team to achieve and implement the new strategic goals. This allows the insurer to distinguish itself in a competitive market and at the same time add more value.
Michelle Hermsen
July 4, 2023
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With the rise of Agile and scaling frameworks such as SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), executives are increasingly faced with a hybrid change environment. This is also increasingly noticeable at the portfolio level, where traditional and agile methodologies need to be combined for effective execution. The goal is to leverage the benefits of both approaches.
Michelle Hermsen
June 8, 2023
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The more an organization uses an agile method, the more the need arises for a different management of the portfolio of programs and projects. The way of working requires adjustments if the portfolio is executed agile. In practice, this is called agile portfolio management, which requires an integrated approach to effectively translate strategy into action.
Henny Portman
May 22, 2023