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Pipeline register

Every live innovation bet in one list: its stage, its sponsor, what it holds in people and money, and how long it has waited.

The deliverable

What it is

The pipeline register is the portfolio view. It shows how much the organisation is spending on new things, where that spending sits, and which projects have stopped moving.

It feeds Growth horizons in the Goal Core, which decides how effort should be divided across near and far horizons. The register reports the actual division; the allocation itself is decided there.

One level in

What it is made of

Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.

  1. Entry

    One live project, with the stage it is currently in and the sponsor who answers for it at the next gate.

    3 attributes: Project · Current stage · Sponsor

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  2. Resources held

    The budget committed and the people assigned, so the total cost of the pipeline can be seen in one place.

    2 attributes: Committed · People assigned

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  3. Horizon

    Which growth horizon the project belongs to, as defined in Growth horizons, so the actual portfolio can be read against the agreed split.

    2 attributes: Horizon · Horizon allocation

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  4. Time in stage

    How long the project has been in its current stage, and when the next gate is scheduled, to show where things are stuck.

    2 attributes: Time in stage · Next gate

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Sort the register by time in stage. The projects at the top are the ones gates have been avoiding.