Organization Level

Applications and Market Variants

Applications and market versions are integrated, tested and approved products of the organization that can be sold in target markets to customers. They meet the requirements specified as a group from the Stakeholer Needs in the ” feature sets “. These are individually defined in the System Requirements & Functions as well as the Quality…

Organizational Artefacts

The Organization is the top level in P4 and organizes the portfolio. For this purpose, the Organization has a Portfolio Backlog with applications as elements, a Portfolio Kanban board and the organization DoD .   Each Organization has the following artifacts: The Oraganizsation’s Structure: It describes the Clusters and Teams within the Organization, as well…

Cluster Product Owner Group (CPOG)

The Cluster Product Owner Group consists of the Cluster Product Owners of all Clusters in the Organization, plus the Portfolio Owner. It has the overall responsibility for market and business side of the product development process on the Portfolio at the organizational level. The Cluster Product Owner Group including the Portfolio Owner has the following…

Cluster Scrum Master Group (CSMG)

The Cluster Scrum Master Group, consists of the Cluster Scrum Masters of the Clusters and the Organization Scrum Master (OSM) The group is responsible for the processes, infrastructure and the cultural side of the product development process at the organizational level . The CSMG maintains the Organization Improvement Backlog to plan and implement improvement projects .…

Cluster System Engineer Group (CSEG)

The Cluster System Engineer Group (CSEG) consists of the Cluster System Engineers of all Clusters in the Organization . At the organizational level, it corresponds to the role of the Working Team at the team level. Together with the Portfolio Architect , the Cluster System Engineer Group is responsible for the Technology and Architecture side…

Communities of Practice

Communities-of-Practice (CoP) are groups that deal with specific knowledge and experience topics. All employees have the opportunity to work in the self-organized CoPs within their “practice time” or training period. The P4 framework provides about 10% of the working time for this.   The Communities of Practices are about: Exchange of experience Training and personal…

Skills & Education

Skills & Education represent, in addition to the three main areas of Market & Business. Processes & Infrastructure, Technology & Architecture, a fourth orthogonal area in the P4 framework, which deals with the exchange of experience, learning and methods and tools of  special knowledge and experience practices. There can be a separate Community-of-Practice for each of these…

Organization Management Circle (OMC)

The Organization is managed by a group of managers, the Organization Management Circle (OMC) The Portfolio Owner, the Portfolio Architect and the Organization Scrum Master form the Organization Management Circle (OMC). They support and complement each other in the decision-making of topics that reach their level or have been escalated to them by one of…