Is Agile Portfolio Management Following the Principles of Large-Scale Agile? Case Study in Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle

Abstract

Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has taken Agile Portfolio Management into use at web and mobile development. This paper examines how the general benefits of Agile Portfolio practices described in training material and literature differ from the actual benefits described by real users of Portfolio Kanban Board. We also compare if the Principles of Large-Scale Agile collected from various Agile Organizations and published in the keynote presentation in the XP2014 conference can actually be detected in-action by users of Portfolio Kanban Board, and end up with a suggestion to remove the Principle of pattern utilization.