SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management

Learn how to align execution and strategy with SAFe® 5 Lean Portfolio Management Practitioner certification.

Create a culture of innovation, flexibility, and speed where all people involved in the portfolio operate together as one team. This training provides you with the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions: Strategy & Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations, and Lean Governance.

You will learn to capture the current and future state of the portfolio with the Portfolio Canvas tool and to identify key business initiatives that can achieve future state. How you manage the flow in the portfolio with Portfolio Kanban and how you prioritize initiatives that offer the maximum economic benefit, will also be discussed in the training. In addition, the training provides insight into how to draw up budgets for value streams and the associated frameworks (guard rails) and how to measure the performance of lean portfolios.

What you will learn

• Implementation of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
• To articulate and propagate the importance of LPM in your organization
• Connect the portfolio with the business strategy
• Implement lean budgets and frameworks (guard rails)
• Manage the flow in the portfolio with Portfolio Kanban
• Support operational excellence with the APMO and communities of practice
• Coordinate value flows
• Measure the performance of LPM
• Prepare a plan for the implementation of LPM

Who is this SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management training for?

This training is intended for leaders and influencers responsible for Lean Portfolio Management functions. You can think of directors and leaders (CIOs, CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, and VPs) Enterprise architects, Product managers and solution managers, SPCs and enterprise agile coaches etc.

Prerequisites

Anyone can participate in the training without prior knowledge. However, for participants who meet the following conditions, the training is more productive:

• Familiar with the concepts and principles of Agile
• Previous participation in a Leading SAFe® or SAFe® PO / PM training
• Experience with working in a SAFe environment