Responsive Product Portfolio Management (RPPM) is the framework organizations use to effectively evaluate and allocate product investment options and adjust them responsively based on outcomes.
While Dragonboat may be custom configured to support a wide range of product and portfolio management frameworks, it is by default configured to support RPPM.
In this article, we'll cover an overview of RPPM framework, and how they are supported by the Dragonboat platform.
The 5 principles of responsive PPM
- Multidimensional portfolios
- Define portfolio dimensions
- Dynamic hierarchy
- Three time horizons
- Represented by portfolio item levels
- Planning cadences
- Strategy and Execution double diamond (through outcome allocation and portfolio integration)
- Use MoAR vs ROI to prioritize
- MoAR: Metric over Available Resources - a way to prioritize
- Learn about Metrics
- Resource planning
- Responsive re/allocation
- Planned scope vs Reported scope
- Allocation - Target, planned, reported, completed, actual
The outcome focused PDLC playbooks
- Regardless your PDLC practice, you need a way to document, communicate, and manage it.
- PDLC is not a workflow where each portfolio item may be in 1 step at a time, it’s a playbook.
- The RPPM adopts an outcome focused PDLC that starts with goals and customer insights, take it all the way through ideation, design and build, deploy, as well as product GTM and post launch analytics. (view RPPM PDLC playbook best practice)
The RPPM Cadences
- Long term - annual strategic alignment that defines strategic bets and goals
- Mid term - quarterly or bi-monthly planning / milestone setting with cross functional teams, defining and prioritizing initiatives and features
- Monthly or bi-weekly - portfolio and outcome reviews, including PDLC
- Planning playbook,
- GTM readiness playbook, and
- post launch performance/ product analytics playbook.
- Bi-weekly - scrum process
The RPPM roles
- Portfolio Manager (product ops, product execs) - admin of Dragonboat
- Product manager - editors of Dragonboat
- Resource manager - editors/ planners of Dragonboat
- Cross functional teams - requestors or read only user of Dragonboat
Get started with Dragonboat in 1 hour:
- Understand and map out the 3 key portfolio dimensions: goals, product teams, and timeframe.
- Reference your existing roadmap update slides or roadmaps spreadsheets and recreate a mini version of them using Portfolio 3D dynamic, or Portfolio list.
- Once the format looks good, import 1/3 to 1/2 of all. your team's roadmap that's in spreadsheets, Jira, or CSV file, mapping column with your new Dragonboat structure.
Need inspiration, check out the Templates.
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