Large scale program and portfolio management with Scrum and Kanban

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Plz don’t do this. 

Agile postulates that large scale planning is impossible due to complexity and uncertainty and instead proposes iterative fast to market development of product, service and process.

Just enough planning for continued execution is instituted.  Story mapping and kanban for tiered management of teams are covered. Good cover of basics, could use some experimental and comparative data.

Cottmeyer, M. E. (2011). Large scale program and portfolio management with Scrum and Kanban. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2011—North America, Dallas, TX. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute.

https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/agile-scrum-kaban-business-management-6164

Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland

Finnish town of Oulu, population 200 000, handled Nokia layoffs with innovation. It proved to be a success.

A startup incubator, high quality of life, a technology village, digital health startup hub and the generosity Nokia showed by creating a productive program for over a 1000 laid off employees have contributed to a “second-to-none support system for innovation ”

https://qz.com/1720214/how-nokias-collapse-turned-oulu-into-an-internet-wonderland/