Name: When metrics stop guiding decisions
Start: 2026-06-26T16:20:00+0200
End: 2026-06-26T17:05:00+0200

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When metrics stop guiding decisions

Friday June 26, 2026 4:20pm - 5:05pm CEST

6. Douchelokaal

Mature portfolio Obeya and the hidden cost of metrics.

Portfolio Obeya rooms are often presented as evidence of mature governance. With increasingly sophisticated metrics, dashboards, and analytics, executives expect stronger alignment, clearer oversight, and better portfolio control.
Across mature portfolio Obeya environments, however, a recurring pattern can be observed: portfolios become overloaded and initiatives are rarely stopped. Capacity constraints are visible, but do not translate into decisive stop or reallocation decisions. Instead, portfolio conversations focus on optimizing ongoing work, while the question of whether initiatives should continue quietly disappears.
This session examines how widely used metric practices contribute to that dynamic. Metrics do not merely inform decisions; they shape portfolio conversations by defining what is discussed, and what is not. As a result, portfolio Obeya increasingly functions as a forum for managing existing commitments, rather than for making deliberate choices under scarcity.
Participants will learn how this shift occurs, how to recognize early signals of decision drift, and how to intervene before default continuation sets in. The session equips executives and portfolio leaders to restore stopping and reprioritization as legitimate governance acts, creating space for work that truly matters and strengthening the organization’s ability to translate strategy into results.
Portfolios rarely fail loudly; they drift.

Speakers

Gerard Berends

Strategy Execution Advisor, gerardberends.nl

Gerard Berends has spent nearly twenty years watching organizations report progress on work that quietly stopped moving their strategy forward. Goals were set, metrics were tracked, and initiatives continued, while the harder question of whether to stop or reprioritize disappeared... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 4:20pm - 5:05pm CEST
6. Douchelokaal

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