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Our SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) training course will teach you how to:

  • Assess the current and future state of your portfolio with the Portfolio Canvas tool
  • Establish portfolio flow with the Portfolio Kanban system
  • Establish Value Stream Budgets, Lean Budget Guardrails, and measure the Lean portfolio performance

Our SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) training course contains the following modules.

Module 1:Introducing Lean Profile Management

  • Apply the Lean-Agile Mindset and SAFe Principles to portfolio management
  • Realize the benefits of organizing your portfolio around value
  • Identify the Development Value Streams within a portfolio

Module 2:Establishing Portfolio Strategy and Vison

  • Connect the portfolio to the Enterprise with Strategic Themes
  • Describe Strategic Themes with objectives and key results (OKRs)
  • Maintain the Portfolio Vision
  • Define the Value Streams and portfolio domain via the portfolio canvas
  • Understand the portfolio’s investment mix by horizon
  • Identify opportunities for the portfolio’s future state with SWOT
  • Express the future state as a Vision
  • Develop the portfolio Roadmap
  • Forecast portfolio Epics for roadmapping
  • Identify market rhythms and milestones
  • Identify valuable release windows using market rhythms
  • identify valuable release windows using market milestones.

Module 3: Realising Portfolio Visions Through Epics

  • Define portfolio Epics
  • Achieve the future state of the portfolio with Epics
  • Decompose portfolio Epics into program or Solution Epics
  • Adapt the Lean business case template to your needs
  • Estimate Epic costs
  • Implement Epics and achieve the Vision using the SAFe Lean Startup Cycle

Module 4: Establishing Investment Funding

  • Establish Lean Budget Guardrails
  • Guide investments by horizons
  • Apply capacity allocation to optimize value and Solution integrity
  • Establish portfolio Epic thresholds
  • Use Participatory Budgeting in SAFe
  • Establish the total portfolio budget
  • Establish Value Stream budgets with participatory budgeting

Module 5: Managing Portfolio Flow

  • Establish flow with the Portfolio Kanban
  • Sequence Epics for implementation using WSJF
  • Sequence Epics for optimal economics
  • Calculate WSJF to sequence Epics
  • Manage portfolio flow

Module 6: Applying Agile Portfolio Operations

  • Coordinate Value Streams to create portfolio-level opportunities
  • Deploy and release portfolio work
  • Support program execution and operational excellence
  • Measure and grow to improve LPM competency

Module 7: Applying Leaning Governance

  • Measure LPM performance
  • Establish LPM Metrics
  • Coordinate continuous compliance
  • Improve quality with a Lean approach
  • Understand Technology Business Management (TBM) with SAFe
  • Measure Lean portfolio performance

Our SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) training course is open to everyone.

Our SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) training course includes the following:

  • Pre-reading
  • Course Manual
  • Quizzes
  • Exercises

The following recommendations will make your time on the training course significantly more productive:

  • Familiarity with Agile concepts and principles
  • Attended Leading SAFe® Certification Training or SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM Certification) Training
  • Experience working in a SAFe® environment

Our SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) training course has no required reading material but the following books may be of help:

  • "SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management: Achieving Agile Portfolio Operations and Funding with the Scaled Agile Framework®" by Richard Knaster and Dean Leffingwell
  • "Agile Portfolio Management" by Jochen Krebs
  • "The Lean Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Portfolio Investment and Capacity Management" by Johanna Rothman

SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM Certification) Exam:

  • Exam Format: Multiple Choice
  • Exam Delivery: Web-Based (Single-Browser), Closed Book
  • Exam Access: You Can Access The Exam Within The SAFe® Community Platform Upon Completion Of The Training Course
  • Exam Duration: 90 Minutes
  • Number Of Questions: 45
  • Passing Score: 77% Passing Score
  • Resit Cost: $50.00
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SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Certificate

You might be interested in our two-day SAFe® For Teams training course, where you will learn the following:

  • Apply SAFe® to scale Lean and Agile development in their enterprise
  • Know their team and its role on the Agile Release Train
  • Know all other teams on the train, their roles, and the dependencies between the teams
  • Plan Iterations
  • Execute Iterations and demonstrate value
  • Plan Program Increments
  • Integrate and work with other teams on the train

Our SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) training course has the following benefits:

  • Earn your Scaled Agile Lean Portfolio Management certification
  • Follow instruction provided by certified SAFe Program consultants
  • Includes 1-year Scaled Agile Membership (for first-time attendees of SAFe courses)
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching

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The SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) training course is two days.

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