Agile Portfolio Management

Course Summary

It is difficult to make powerful decisions that lead to results.
A structured approach and process for strategy and decision-making increases your chances of success.
To then translate the decisions and portfolio into effective action and product development requires a coherent process and organization.
The Agile Portfolio Management course gives you a solid theoretical foundation to stand on and inspiration and development opportunities to take your portfolio management to the next level.

Agile Portfolio Management is the course that gives you the tools to lead and make decisions in strategy, business model and product portfolio, and then translate this into effective execution through agile development at scale.

This training is aimed at managers, leaders, project managers, product owners and others who participate or lead strategy work, product management and execution of agile development at scale.

We recommend basic knowledge of agile methods, for example the course Introduction to agile methods or equivalent.

This course has no certification

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Strategy

  • Introduction – what is strategy?
  • Strategy models and concepts – Crossing The Chasm, Blue Sea, Red Sea, etc.

Iterative experiments – scientific methods and Lean Startup

  • How Lean Startup works
  • Iterative experiments in practice

Innovation

  • How does innovation fit into the organization and process?
  • What is disruptive innovation?
  • Sustaining innovation

Portfolio management

  • Balancing the portfolio – strategies and methods
  • Roadmapping
  • Prioritization, business agility and business ownership, optimization, WSJF etc.
  • Requirements Management – Backlogs, Epics, Themes, Features

Lean, Kanban and queue management

  • Introduction, theory
  • Implications and uses of portfolio management

Decision making

  • Introduction
  • Theoretical models and processes

Portfolio life cycle

  • Agile Product Management
  • Planning pace and visualization
  • Architecture and platform in the portfolio
  • Business Model Canvas and Product Definition

Scaled Agile

  • Introduction to scaled development concepts and example frameworks

Organization

  • Executive Management Team
  • Business teams
  • Product Management
  • Scrum teams

Financial management

  • Introduction
  • Cost of Delay

Putting it all together

  • How does this work together?
  • Global optimization

Executive summary

  • Overview of course components
  • Feedback and suggestions for additional training activities

 

Course Overview

16 900 kr

2 days

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Customized Courses

The course can be adapted from several perspectives:

  • Content and focus area
  • Extent and scope
  • Delivery approach

In interaction with the course leader, we ensure that the course meets your needs.

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