Building Your Portfolio

Traditional approaches to portfolio management were not designed for a global economy impacted by digital disruption. Enterprises now need to work under a higher degree of uncertainty and be able to deliver innovative solutions much faster with constrained resources. And yet, many enterprises try to impose a traditional portfolio approach to govern in this new age:

The problem is not with our organizations realizing that they need to transform; the problem is that organizations are using managerial frameworks and infrastructure models from past revolutions to manage their business in this one.

– Mik Kersten, Project to Product [6]

For many years, SAFe® organizations didn’t begin implementing Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) until several Agile Release Trains (ARTs) had been launched. Better business results achieved by Agile Teams and Trains put pressure on the senior leaders to explore applying Lean-Agile practices at the portfolio...