LPM - Organization along value streams

Why Lean Portfolio Management?

There is no good solution for too many strategic projects at the same time. Many organizations struggle with a lack of transparency about their numerous projects, which leads to slow strategy implementation, high coordination efforts and redundant projects. In addition, projects drag on due to a lack of focus, exceed the budget and rarely deliver the expected results.

With a Lean Portfolio (Management), you can make your activities transparent, prioritize them clearly and optimize the value flow across the entire system. Simply explained, you use the principles behind Kanban and Lean to optimize strategic projects. The strategic perspective and the implementing teams are close together, which brings more dynamism to the implementation of the strategy. 

avega Lean Portfolio Journey

The avega Lean Portfolio Journey is our proven approach for introducing a portfolio. We supplement the theory from the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Kanban and Flight Levels with experience from various mandates. The steps in the journey are not necessarily sequential. However, you will encounter them in different ways in every organization that wants to use this approach to prioritize strategic issues.

Most organizations do not start from square 1 when introducing Lean Portfolio Management - various measures and efforts are already in place (e.g. classic portfolio management, prioritization of strategic topics throughout the year). That is why we take the existing context into account and include individual factors in every support. We ensure that the following topics are covered:

• Visualization of current topics

• Definition of epics and events

• Organization along value streams

• Define portfolio(s)

• Connection & link with the corporate strategy

• Financing & governance

• Improving performance across the portfolio

• Expansion of the portfolio