Agile Portfolio Management

Last week, I finally received the new "Agile Portfolio Management" book, a book I was looking forward to reading. Organizational issues related to Agile are important since most people assume Agile development does not affect organizational issues, but nothing could be further from the truth. When adopting agile development in product development then every aspect of the organization will need to change to make the total organization more flexible. An overstatement? No. Don't forget that Agile development has few *new* ideas and combines a whole bunch of existing practices. If you dive in the existing practices like cross-functional teams, lean, self-organizing team, etc, then every single one of these will state that adopting these practices will have an organizational-wide effect. So the combination of these have an even larger organizational-wide effort--most practices in an organization will need to change.

So, I was excited about Jochen Krebs book on portfolio management, but found it a complete disappointment. I won't recommend anyone to read that. Just improved editing would have made the book already a lot better...

Anyways, I made an Amazon review here I'm happy with Jochens attempt and good that there is finally a book on this subject, though I think there is room for more insightful and more thorough books related to this.