The Agile Executive

Erik Huddleston, Walter Bodwell, Stephen Chin and I unveiled Apropos – the Agile Project Portfolio Scheduler – a month ago in the LSSC10 conference in Atlanta, GA. The system is now available as open source. Click here to go to the home page of the project and download the software. It will enable you to:

• Synergies R&D with downstream organizations such as Operations, Professional Services, and Sales
• Increase delivery value through organization-wide alignment of priorities
• Achieve continuous improvement by whole process feedback loops
• Gain realtime visibility into delivery status and potential blockages

The core concept of Apropos – multiple parallel feedback loops – is  demonstrated by the following process control diagram:

Figure 1: Process Control View of Apropos

Enjoy Apropos, benefit from it and please give us feedback!