Lean Portfolio Management (ICP-LPM)

A comprehensive framework to connect your organisation's strategy with execution, enabling you to deliver value faster and adapt to changing market demands

In today's complex business environment, traditional project-based portfolio management often creates bottlenecks, misalignment, and slow delivery cycles. This practical, hands-on course introduces the principles and practices of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) to help your organisation overcome these challenges. You will learn how to shift from funding projects to empowering long-lived value streams, enabling a more adaptive and outcome-focused approach.

Through a blend of instruction, group activities, and real-world examples, you will explore how to build and govern a lean portfolio, prioritise initiatives for maximum impact, and foster a culture of continuous value delivery. 

This course is ICAgile-accredited, and upon successful completion, you will earn the Certified Professional in Lean Portfolio Management (ICP-LPM) certification.

Learning Objectives

  • Contrast Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) with traditional project-based methods to solve modern business challenges in a VUCA world
  • Apply the core principles of LPM and the project-to-product mindset to guide an organisation’s transition toward business agility
  • Align portfolio initiatives with an adaptive business strategy using tools like portfolio canvases, roadmaps, and outcome-focused metrics
  • Structure the organisation and its portfolios around value streams to optimise the end-to-end flow of value to the customer
  • Implement lean-agile approaches to funding, governance, and measurement that enable faster, data-driven decision-making
  • Manage the intake and execution of work by establishing a Portfolio Kanban system and applying economic prioritisation techniques
  • Validate strategic hypotheses and deliver value incrementally by defining and building Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)

Topics covered

  • What is Lean Portfolio Management?
  • Principles of LPM for Business Agility
  • Moving from Project to Product
  • How do we design our organisation?
  • Building your portfolio
  • Aligning execution to strategy
  • Prioritising your portfolio
  • What does value mean?
  • Building out your portfolio roadmap
  • Triage incoming work
  • Funding your portfolio
  • Minimum viable product (MVP)
  • Maintaining visibility
  • Governing your portfolio
  • Understanding value
  • Building your roadmap

You'll also receive

  • Trainers with real world Agile experience
  • ICAgile Certified Professional in ICAgile Certified Professional in Lean Portfolio Management (ICP-LPM)
  • Electronic copy of the course materials

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for this course. However, participants will gain the most value if they have a foundational understanding of Agile principles and practices. Experience working in project, product, or portfolio environments is also beneficial.

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