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SAFe 5.1 Lean Portfolio Management Training (Brussels)
Faster and more responsive
The world becomes more volatile, uncertain, complex. This drives companies to agile: faster to market and better at changing priorities quickly. Agile teams can do that.
But in larger organizations you need coordination,
financial governance and long-term roadmaps as well. Traditional,
budget-based approaches are slow and changes in plans are
time-consuming. Agile combined with traditional governance will not
bring the benefits you expect.
Enter SAFe Lean Portfolio Management. A coherent way of managing an agile portfolio, bringing governance in line with the advantages of agility. Feeding and seamlessly integrated with the SAFe delivery pipeline
Hatching ideas
That is really what Lean Portfolio Management is about. Helping the
company define a strategy and make it actionable. Gather all ideas and
translate them into initiatives that the delivery pipeline can take up.
Periodically assessing and readjusting the portfolio and the budgets.
SAFe LPM brings structure and governance to large scale initiatives. Participatory budgeting helps select the initiatives that get funded. Periodical portfolio sync meetings keep the trains on track. The Lean start-up cycle makes sure initiatives have to prove themselves in the market before getting fully funded.
Manage value, not just cost
Wou need products and services that are valuable for your customer and generate value for your company. Your PMO needs to evolve to a Value Management Office, monitoring the creation of value and not just the spend of money.
The Lean Portfolio Management function can also support the Lean Agile Center of Excellence, supporting the different agile release trains or tribes in their transformation to agile and their continuous search for improvement.
And finally, you may be bound by compliance to external rules. The LPM can take that regulation part in its stride as well.
Learn how to manage a lean portfolio !
Aligning strategy with execution
Translating business strategy into
initiatives, approving them, providing funding and tracking their
execution are the traditional domain of portfolio management.
Organizations that adopt a lean-agile way of working still need this
function, while respecting the new way of working. The lean-agile
transformation itself needs to benefit from best practices and support
by Communities of Practice, and governance in order to maintain
compliance with external regulations.
In this course, attendees will gain the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations and Lean Governance.
Participants in the course will have the opportunity to capture the current and the future state of their portfolio with the Portfolio Canvas tool and identify important business initiatives for achieving the future state. Participants will be able to establish portfolio flow with the Portfolio Kanban and prioritize initiatives for maximum economic benefit. The course also provides insights on how to establish Value Stream Budgets and Lean Budget Guardrails and measure the Lean portfolio performance.
SAFe Lean Portfolio Management
In this course, attendees will gain the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations and Lean Governance.
Participants in the course will have the opportunity to capture the current and the future state of their portfolio with the Portfolio Canvas tool and identify important business initiatives for achieving the future state. Participants will be able to establish portfolio flow with the Portfolio Kanban and prioritize initiatives for maximum economic benefit. The course also provides insights on how to establish Value Stream Budgets and Lean Budget Guardrails and measure the Lean portfolio performance.
Attendees typically include portfolio managers, PMO, product managers and product owners, business analysts and business consultants.
DAY 1
Introducing Lean Portfolio Management
Establishing Strategy and Investment Funding
Applying Agile Portfolio Operations
DAY 2
Applying Lean Governance
Implementing the LPM Function
Becoming a SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager
More about the LPM course.
Certification Included
- SAFe 5.1 Lean Portfolio management certification exam administration and scoring (valued at 495 $)
- Online course feedback survey
- Those attendees who pass the exam will receive Scaled Agile membership for one year, access to the private SA member area, downloads, and invitations to special events.
- More about SAFe LPM certification