Enhancing Project Success with Kanban Project, Program, and Portfolio Management

Straight From the Author's Mouth:  Enhancing Project Success With KPPM

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, project managers are constantly challenged to deliver projects successfully while adapting to changes and demands. The Kanban Project, Program, and Portfolio Management (KPPM) approach is gaining traction as a solution to these challenges. What makes KPPM particularly appealing is that it is not a replacement for traditional PM methodologies; rather, it augments and enhances them.

Despite extensive effort, project managers often grapple with issues such as lack of global visibility into project status, erratic project delivery times, inconsistent decision-making, and ineffective communication across the organisation.

KPPM is rooted in the principles of Kanban, a visual management tool that originated in manufacturing and has been adapted for knowledge work. It focuses on project and service flow management practices, aiming to improve project success rates significantly. KPPM scales naturally, allowing for the management of projects, programs, and portfolios without introducing unnecessary complexity or bureaucracy. It encourages starting where you are and seeking improvement through evolutionary change.

KPPM is particularly effective for multi-project management, enabling better coordination between teams working on different projects. It fosters leadership at every level of the organisation, promoting a stronger culture of collaboration and a focus on business purpose.

The PMI Germany Chapter is happy to announce that we have managed to secure none other than the author of the KPPM method to give us a short overview and to answer your questions. Mathias Tölken of Xuviate, himself a Kanban and KPPM expert and a PMI Germany Chapter member, will moderate the conversation.

About the Presenters:
Teodora Bozheva is a well-known enterprise agility trainer and coach. She is the author of the Kanban Project, Program and Portfolio Management (KPPM) model and co-creator of the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) together with David J. Anderson. For more than 15 years Tedora has been helping organizations improve their processes, habits and results through appropriate combinations of methods and models such as KMM, PMBOK, Agile. CMMI and Lean Six Sigma. Teodora has led the successful transformations of the Finance area of BBVA-Spain, and companies such as ULMA Handling Systems and Línea Directa.
Mathias Tölken has 30 years of experience in and with the management of companies and has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that traditional organisations face in the digital and agile era. He is co-founder of Xuviate GmbH, a business that specializes in helping organisations efficiently implement project portfolio and multi-project management using Kanban, Kanbanize and the KPPM. In the last four years alone, Xuviate has accompanied over 300 leaders and change agents in 20+ countries across six continents on their Kanban journey.

Holders of PMI-Certificates can claim 1 PDU "Ways of Working" and 0,5 PDUs "Business".

Please address any questions to martin.bertram@pmi-gc.de and mathias@xuviate.com