A practical, principle based, guide to help leaders prioritise initiatives, align strategy, and accelerate delivery across complex tech portfolios.

Why This Guide Matters

In large tech organisations, leaders often face:

  • Conflicting initiatives and unclear priorities
  • Slow decision-making and overloaded communication
  • Teams that struggle to align with strategy
  • Innovation efforts that fail to deliver measurable outcomes
  • A lack of delivery of working tech that is fit for purpose

This field guide provides clear principles and practical tools to cut through the noise, align your portfolio, and deliver valuable results.

I call this approach value-first, as we orientate everything we do around simplifying and optimising the path from idea to value.

The principles in this guide has been proven and implemented in portfolios ranging from 200 people to an entire technology enterprise-wide model for 16k+ people globally.

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What You’ll Learn

  • How to map initiatives to strategic value - and out to value
  • Portfolio prioritisation and alignment techniques
  • Leadership behaviours that unblock teams and enable agility
  • Practical ways to embed learning and continuous improvement
  • How to use experiments and creative activity to spark innovation

The Five-Lens Foundation

This guide is built on the Releasing Agility Model, which helps leaders view their organisation through five critical lenses:

  1. Vision – Create a compelling and shared future
  2. Obstacles – Identify and address what’s blocking progress
  3. Team Capability & Behaviours – Build skills and leadership habits that scale
  4. Processes & Routines – Align systems and practices with value delivery
  5. Learning & Improvement – Foster resilience, feedback, and adaptability

Who It’s For

  • CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Portfolio Owners
  • Senior leaders managing multiple initiatives and complex portfolios
  • Change agents seeking practical ways to align, focus, and deliver value
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How to Use This Guide

  • As a standalone resource to clarify your portfolio
  • As a diagnostic tool before deeper change initiatives
  • As a reference during workshops, leadership coaching, and portfolio optimisation

Take the Next Step

Alongside the field guide, I work with leaders and teams to:

  • Run Portfolio Diagnostics
  • Apply the Agile Portfolio Playbook to align strategy and execution to valuable delivery
  • Shift leadership behaviours through Behaviour Labs
  • Improve communication and decision flow with Retrofit Workshops
  • Build resilience with Applied Learning & Safe-to-Fail Labs

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