E131 Guiding LPM Strategize Step with Generative Leadership

Trust, collaboration, and AI adoption in portfolio management.

• Yuval and Dr. Dave discuss the importance of trust and collaboration in portfolio management.
• Generative leaders build trust by integrating the "we trust you to achieve our goals" gap tenet, fostering work ownership, and empowering teams.

 

Agility in various industries, starting with visualizing workflow.

• Yuval recites a Hebrew song by an Israeli group and discusses the lyrics' meaning and cultural significance.
• Yuval helps organizations leverage agility at scale through coaching, training, and advising, focusing on pragmatic interventions and Lean/agile principles.
• Yuval suggests starting with existing work processes rather than strategizing from scratch.

 

Strategic planning, goal setting, and team collaboration.

• Yuval emphasizes the importance of setting explicit outcomes and goals for agile scaling.
• Yuval: Collaborative goal setting and planning integration at the portfolio level.
• Yuval: Magic of pi planning, breakout, and integrating at portfolio level.
• Yuval discusses framing strategy in desired outcomes to enable innovation.

 

Setting goals and measuring outcomes in agile development, focusing on empathy and trust-building.

• Yuval emphasizes the importance of focusing on outcomes and impact in goal-setting.
• Yuval encourages leaders to classify goals and language to ensure alignment with portfolio vision.

Fostering trust and ownership in Agile leadership through transparency and customization.

• Yuval suggests using visualizations and KPIs to connect strategies to daily work.
• Leaders must trust their people and provide the necessary information for decision-making.
• Yuval argues for customizable agility solutions to ensure user buy-in.

 

Strategizing for LPM adoption using OKRs and Agile practices.

• Leader recommends using OKRs to improve continuous improvement, align strategies, and measure impact.
• Yuval suggests using a Kanban system to manage OKRs and improve strategizing.
• Dr. Dave and Yuval discuss the importance of adaptive practices in leadership.
• Yuval shares his experience with gap leadership and experimentation.