Topic: LPM

When launching Lean Portfolios, one of the first questions is where is the Portfolio Manager and is it like traditional PMO roles? LPM and the facilitation is critical to holding the LPM activities and members together On their Lean Portfolio SAFe Journey. Many organizations look for titles within the SAFe “troikas” at each level, yet within the portfolio level it is not on “The Big Picture”, and we’ve resisted it as a single, defined role. Why? Come explore the meaning behind why there is no “Portfolio Engineer” role in Lean Portfolio Management and how LPM is facilitated.

Overview

SAFe Creator and Chief Methodologist, Dean Leffingwell, reflects on his keynote and a live survey conducted at the 2019 European SAFe Summit.
Highlights include:

• Welcome to the Age of Software! Dean reflects on his keynote at the 2019 European SAFe Summit, which discusses how digital disruption is dead and we are now in the Age of Software – and what that means for businesses looking to transform.
  To access Dean’s keynote, visit scaledagile.com/keynote 
• In a SAFe Summit first, we conducted a live, primary research assessment where we invited attendees to take a survey to determine how close their organizations are to achieving true business – not technical – agility. Dean discusses why he created the survey and what the results show us.

To read more about the survey, visit scaledagile.com/survey