SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management

May 15 -

May 16

Stockholm

Swedish

Andreas Tjernsten

Senior Enterprise Coach

Andreas Tjernsten is on a quest for more effective, efficient and happy organizations where people thrive. He has worked with product and service development in large organizations for over 20 years and learned from many mistakes while changing the way work is done. Andreas is a certified SAFe SPC, appreciated coach and trainer of Lean & Agile thinking, tools and practices.

One of the biggest reasons for adopting an agile operating model is the ability to respond to the customers' changing needs. Digitalisation changes the business environment rapidly, and also brings change to an organisation’s product and service management. However, we have seen that organisations often strive to advance too many large programs simultaneously without having a clear link to the overall strategy. Lean portfolio management ensures that strategically important topics are advanced in teams' daily work.

The flow of work and quick value delivery are the most essential factors when defining efficiency in the digital age. However, often people are torn between multiple programs and separate assignments. Work becomes fragmented and doesn’t progress as quickly as it could. The organisation tries to accomplish various development programs simultaneously with the same resources.

Lean portfolio management creates an understanding of what impact you are aiming to have with your work—leading to the most important things, according to the company’s objectives, being realised and the strategy being executed daily.

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Course description

The course will give you the know-how to implement lean portfolio management in your organisation. Lean portfolio management supports the execution of a company’s strategy in the daily work and at all levels of the organisation.

The course covers the principles of lean portfolio management and the practices needed to support daily work. You will learn to create visibility for the entire organisation of why the chosen assignments are relevant. With the learned practices, you can guarantee that strategically relevant work is completed and that the same objectives are worked on from multiple angles.

Basics of lean portfolio management
Connecting the portfolio to the company’s strategy
Vision: how to create a vision and direction, and what is the impact of the work
Lean budgeting in portfolio management
Creating portfolio visibility with Kanban
Aligning operative work to support the portfolio
Coordinating across values streams
Measuring lean portfolio performance and impact
How to implement lean portfolio management

Target group

The course is for everyone involved with lean portfolio management who needs to make business and prioritisation choices. For example, the course is beneficial for:

Portfolio managers
Business executives and people around them who advance the strategy in practice
PMO personnel
Architects
Program and system leaders
Epic owners
Lean-agile coaches
Release train engineers

Anyone is welcome to attend this training, but familiarity on SAFe and basic lean and agile concepts are highly recommended.

Certification

The attendees can take an optional SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager Exam after the course. Attendees who pass the online exam receive a SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM) Certification. For more information about the certification exam, please visit Scaled Agile websites.

Duration of the course:
- Online: 4 modules 4 hours each
- Classroom: 2 days
Pricing:
- 2090 €/ 23900 SEK(+VAT) per person
- Price includes training materials and SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager Exam. Attendees who pass the online exam receive the certification.
Cancellation policy: Cancellation has to be done 14 days before the course starts to avoid costs. Cancellations made later than 14 days prior to the course will be charged 50 % of the course price. In case of no show the full price is charged. The organizer reserves the right to cancel or postpone the course if the minimum number of participants is not reached.

NEW: Optional extra workshop

On top of this training we are willing to offer you something extra: a workshop within your own organization. This workshop prepares the enterprise to successfully adopt and execute SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) in your specific portfolio.

Topics to be covered:

building a roadmap
planning how to execute LPM activities
building an adoption plan for LPM practices

Participants needed:

SPCs, senior leaders, members of the APMO, LACE, and other key stakeholders

The workshop can be facilitated as single big team or in several smaller groups. If the workshop is run in several small teams, outputs from the teams will then be discussed jointly and combined as the combined output.

Click here to let us know, if you are interested to add this workshop to your training.

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