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After completing the course, the attendees will be able to become a Certified SAFe® Lean Portfolio Manager. To acquire a certificate will support the learning to work under a higher degree of uncertainty, and yet deliver innovative solutions much faster. More information can be found in the following link at https://www.scaledagile.com/certification/courses/lean-portfolio-management/
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The people who fulfill the LPM function have various titles and roles and are often distributed throughout the organization’s hierarchy. Because LPM is critical to the Lean Enterprise, these responsibilities are held by business managers and executives who understand the enterprise’s financial, technical, and business contexts. They are the people who are responsible for their outcomes.”
Course details
Pricing
The price is based on the following items:
A fee of 10.000:- SEK per class and course day held by one senior Safe Program Consultant.
A cost price for course material of 400:- SEK per attendee.
A cost price for a certification fee of 396:- USD per attendee. Certificates will be administered and issued by Scaled Agile inc.
A cost price for eco-friendly travel and accommodation expenses when events are held outside the Gothenburg area.
An optional portion of the value that you gain by attending this course and taking action.
The portion of the value will be up to your calculation. There will be no legal obligations or demands to pay anything else but the course fee + specified cost prices. However, BDD expects that any organization willing to invest in training, including work time, have a plan to make the most out of the knowledge achieved. How much the training has contributed to value creation will be of your judgment alone.
Example price calculation with 20 attendees and USD currency exchange rate at 10.6 will give a price of 115.952:- SEK [(6000 x 4) + (20 x 400) + (20 x 396 x 10.6)]. In the follow up after one year, you can see an increased Gross Profit Margin of 20 million SEK annually and decide to pay 1% over two years as royalty to BDD. In total, the paid value-based portion is 400.000:- SEK. In a situation where there is no evident business value, the value-based portion will be zero.
Because of the mutual interest to maximize outcomes of the training, BDD will work together with you to define appropriate measures to demonstrate actual value gained.
Topics Covered
The concept of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
Strategy and Investment Funding
Agile Portfolio Operations
Lean Governance
Implementing the LPM function
Prerequisites
To be able to take advantage of the training, there needs to be a group of people who have business responsibility for one or several solutions. This responsibility means that you together can fully own the priority of what a Product Development organization will deliver on its own. The organization may consist of 10 to 1000 individuals in any business.
Your mission should be defined and connected to the architecture of both products and organizational design. Value Streams and Modularization are critical elements to understanding how the mission will be accomplished.
A description of Product Management and Solution Management may be found in this link at Scaled Agile Framework, where vital concepts such as Value Stream, Solution, and Responsibilities are explained. Everyone participating in this course should have attended at least one SAFe course, and you must be prepared to operate according to the description in SAFe.
For your organization as a whole, there should exist a well-communicated vision followed by a corporate strategy, including measurable objectives. You need to have an agreed view of the market and where you want to position yourself as a company. All exercises of the training will be based on your business targets, and it is no option to start the training before they are clear.
The facilities for the training should include a large room equipped with a projector, whiteboard, wall space, flipchart tripods, and flexible tables. The general guideline is at least 3 square meters per person.
Outline of the training concept
You will start by filling out a questionnaire that will give the first guideline of areas that are most vital to address.
A general agreement on a partnership around the specific value delivery. You should have an idea about your key metrics, the target state of your Lean-Agile transformation, and who has the authority of the results.
A preparation day to assess and adjust the prerequisites: joint definition of prerequisites and who will participate in enabling a successful outcome. This day is a strategic dialogue to define the target outcomes.
The order and assignment to perform the training: mutual agreement of the partnership and a training plan.
A Four-day course and workshop to expand your knowledge and create your way forward. A dedicated person must be assigned to manage and save the resulting material.
Follow up and evaluation: certification studies and practical work leading to valuable results.
Scope
This training is dedicated to Agile Product Management. It is not an in-depth organization building oriented course, where you learn about setting up Agile Teams, lead the Agile transformation, and many other skills.
Instead, the scope is related to the customer perspective and how to be able to stand out in an uncertain and maybe shrinking market. Your ability to experiment and continuously update the solution, product, or service, is the critical target.