In a recent webinar, we hosted, Sudipta (Sudi) Lahiri, Head of Engineering and Products at Digité guides us on what Agile Program Management really is and how Kanban can effectively aid in managing a program. This article summarizes the ideas he shared and we hope you learn something valuable after reading it.

Explore the complexities of modern project management challenges in the ever-evolving business landscape. Discover insights into overcoming hurdles and driving success amidst Digital Transformation and fierce competition.

Projects are an organization’s backbone for growth. They are a series of tasks that need to be done for a business to meet a certain metric, such as revenue. For a project to be successful, it must be meticulously planned from start to finish. While this can be a challenging task, making a project plan will make executing a project much easier.

There has been a rapid increase in the interest around bringing together outcomes (via OKRs), financial and portfolio planning (via PPM systems) and execution tracking (from EAP and DevOps systems). However, in a typical enterprise, these functions are all set up, planned and tracked in different systems; how then, can we get a unified view of how (and if) our projects are moving the needle on the business outcomes? Complicating this view is the fact that achieving a business outcome is not a direct result of project execution success; what data then needs to flow through the system, so that stakeholders have visibility into progress, and adjust and allocate resources accordingly? In a recent webinar we hosted, Avinash Rao, VP - Product Management at Digite talked about why and how modern businesses have to align their OKRs to PPM and execution systems and create optionality. This article summarizes the ideas he shared and we hope you enjoy and learn from this reading.