Managing investment risks with Portfolio SAFe®

In this section, you will learn how SAFe applies Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. The goal of Lean Portfolio Management is to align corporate strategy with execution. In other words, we need to make sure the efforts of the organization, spanning the Solution Trains, ARTs, and Agile Teams, support the goals and objectives outlined by the chief executives within the corporate strategy:

Figure 13.4 provides a graphic illustrating the scope of Portfolio SAFe:

Portfolio SAFe configuration: https://www.scaledAgileframework.com/

Lean portfolio management is an important and foundational element to SAFe’s Portfolio configuration, so let’s take a moment to understand what this is all about.

Applying Lean principles to Portfolio Management

Value stream assessments are the responsibility of LPM teams, along with...