portfolio for jira & kanban: how thrillist manages their product roadmap
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MIKE SOLOMON • PRODUCT MANAGEMENT LEAD • THRILLIST
Portfolio for JIRA & Kanban
How Thrillist Manages Their Product Roadmap
When will this talk be done?
Estimating is tough.
Estimating with accuracyis tough.
Strategy ReviewPlanning Problems
Reporting NeedsDependenciesUnknowns Availabilities
JIRA Software w/ Kanban
Portfolio
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
K A N B A N
P O R T F O L I O
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
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• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
What is Kanban?
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• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Kanban is Flexible
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• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Kanban is Fast
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• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Kanban is Simple
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• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Work In Progress Limit
Focus ID Bottlenecks Priority
Work In Progress Limits
Managing the Backlog
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Monthly
Per Delivery
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Service Delivery Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
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Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Monthly
Per Delivery
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Service Delivery Review
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Kanban Cadences
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Delivery Planning Meeting
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Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Per Delivery
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
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Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
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Kanban Cadences
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
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Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Weekly
Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Weekly
Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
Weekly
Weekly
Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Are we doing the right thing?
Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
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Weekly
Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Are we doing the right thing?
Are we doing things right?
Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
Weekly
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Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Are we doing the right thing?
Are we doing things right?
Getting stuff done.
Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
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Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
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Weekly Daily
Weekly
Weekly
Per Delivery
Weekly
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Quarterly Planning
What-If Scenarios:
Estimate:
Scope:Compile features and emerging opportunities into a list in Portfolio
Review list of upcoming projects with team for high-level estimates.
Shuffle priorities, add virtual team members, shave scope.
Scope
Estimate
What-If Scenarios
Gather requests from all departments. Organize items into Portfolio by Initiative, Epic, Story. Prioritize items.
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Scope
Estimate
What-If Scenarios
Gather requests from all departments. Organize items into Portfolio by Initiative, Epic, Story. Prioritize items.
Estimation sessions with each team. Flag and record dependencies. Account for team availabilities.
Scope
Estimate
What-If Scenarios
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
There are known knowns. These are things that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.D O N A L D R U M S F E L D , 2 0 0 2
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• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Estimation sessions with each team. Flag and record dependencies. Account for team availabilities.
Scope
Estimate
What-If Scenarios
Scope
Estimate
What-If Scenarios
Shuffle priorities. Add virtual team members. Shave scope.
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Push to Boards
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
info
Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
change
Weekly Daily
Weekly
Weekly
Per Delivery
Weekly
info change info change
change
info
change
info
Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
change
info
change
info
change
info
change
info
Strategy Review
Kanban Cadences
Replenishment Meeting
info
Delivery Planning Meeting
Quarterly
Kanban Meeting
Risk Review
Strategy Review
change
Weekly Daily
Weekly
Weekly
Per Delivery
Weekly
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Service Delivery Review
Operations Review
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Weekly Planning
Take Action:
Flag Risks:
Track:Review the real-time status of each project across teams.
Highlight projects that are pacing late. Discuss new dependencies.
Adjust prioritization, shave scope, allocate resources.
Track
Flag Risks
Take Action
Visualize status of current work across teams. View any hierarchy level. Filter by project, team, theme, release, and more.
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Track
Flag Risks
Take Action
Visualize status of current work across teams. View any hierarchy level. Filter by project, team, theme, release, and more.
View releases that are slipping and highlight their dependencies so that action can be taken.
Track
Flag Risks
Take Action
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
View releases that are slipping and highlight their dependencies so that action can be taken.
Track
Flag Risks
Take Action
Track
Flag Risks
Take Action
Shuffle priorities. Add virtual team members. Shave scope.
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
• Big cool statistic
• 2,569
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Track
Flag Risks
Take Action
Shuffle priorities. Add virtual team members. Shave scope.
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Strategy ReviewPlanning Problems
Reporting NeedsDependenciesUnknowns Availabilities
JIRA Software w/ Kanban
Portfolio
Thank you!
MIKE SOLOMON • PRODUCT MANAGEMENT LEAD • THRILLIST
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A
Backlog In Progress (1) Done
Kanban Board
P O R T F O L I O
K A N B A N
C O N C L U S I O N
Q & A