Moving from the License Raj to Light Touch Agile Governance
summary
Legacy waterfall governance breaks large programs (healthcare.gov cost ~$500M, 54 contractors) while a cross‑hierarchy Agile Value Management Office assembles ~30 people, represents 21 teams, meets weekly or twice weekly, and overlays a portfolio kanban to break projects into small MMPs tied to OKRs. Upfront inclusion of legal, audit, risk and architecture and tools like Jira Align or LeanKit expedites decisions, shortens lead time, manages dependencies across agile and waterfall work, and yields measurable end‑to‑end flow improvement in cited case studies.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:15License Raj
- 5:15Presentation
- 7:20Healthcaregov
- 12:50Short iterations
- 16:30Long lead times
- 18:10Agile Value Management Office
- 24:13How are we doing
- 26:28UX perspective
- 28:35Organizational silos
- 29:35Integration with business
- 31:02Simple ways to implement LTG
- 32:05Linking strategy to execution
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