SAFe® Coaches Handbook

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Building Your Portfolio

Traditional approaches to portfolio management were not designed for a global economy impacted by digital disruption. Enterprises now need to work under a higher degree of uncertainty and be able to deliver innovative solutions much faster with constrained resources. And yet, many enterprises try to impose a traditional portfolio approach to govern in this new age:

The problem is not with our organizations realizing that they need to transform; the problem is that organizations are using managerial frameworks and infrastructure models from past revolutions to manage their business in this one.

– Mik Kersten, Project to Product [6]

For many years, SAFe® Organizations didn’t begin implementing Lean Portfolio Management ...