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The lean answer to portfolio management challenges

Executive summary

Traditional approaches to investment application, capacity planning, and product delivery can frustrate your business agility efforts. Fixed budgets, determined at the start of a fiscal year, and detailed, waterfall-style project plans are too rigid and can prevent teams from capitalizing on new opportunities or responding to unexpected threats.

This is why more organizations are turning to new approaches, such as lean portfolio management (LPM), to focus their teams’ time and resources on the most valuable streams of work.

Learn how to address three of the most common problems in portfolio management and how lean practices offer remedies for scaled agile teams.

Key takeaways

    Connect the business strategy to team execution while streamlining costs

    Reduce perpetual work overload with better backlog management

    Use data to gain better visibility and support smart decision-making