ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an understanding of the similarities and differences between project portfolio management coming from a financial approach and agile portfolio management which comes from agile software development, two very much different approaches to solving the same kind of problems. The Management of Portfolios (MoP) sets the topics while the agile portfolio management column aims at explaining how similar concepts would be applied in an agile setting. High-level portfolio management, whether it is project portfolio management or agile portfolio management, seems to solve many of the same tasks, just done differently. In general, project portfolio management is less principle-driven than agile portfolio management. “Management of Portfolios” contains five principles while agile is built upon Lean; additional principles and values are then added from the agile manifest, the declaration of interdependence, and suchlike, which makes it extensively principle-drivenand one of the key drivers for making agile portfolio management work.
