Agile Program & Portfolio Management

Service Description

In today’s fast-changing business environment, traditional program and portfolio management often struggle to keep pace—resulting in misaligned priorities, slow decision-making, and wasted investment. This immersive 1-day course equips leaders, portfolio managers, program managers, and PMO professionals with the mindset and tools to deliver strategic outcomes at speed and scale. You’ll explore the full spectrum of Agile Program & Portfolio Management, from defining and governing strategic initiatives to coordinating cross-functional delivery teams. We’ll cover how Agile Program Management enables visibility, alignment, and dependency management across multiple teams and value streams, while Lean Portfolio Management connects those programs directly to business strategy and customer value. Using practical techniques such as value stream mapping, outcome-based objectives, portfolio Kanban, adaptive funding, and prioritization frameworks, you’ll learn how to create transparency, improve responsiveness, and focus on measurable results. The course emphasizes governance without bureaucracy, ensuring decision-making remains fast, data-driven, and aligned to strategic themes. We’ll also address the most common anti-patterns that derail Agile Program & Portfolio Management, including: • Treating Agile as simply faster waterfall rather than a mindset shift. • Maintaining project-based funding while claiming value delivery. • Overloading teams with too many priorities, reducing flow and quality. • Focusing on output metrics instead of business outcomes. • Failing to connect strategy to delivery, leaving teams guessing on priorities. • Running governance as command-and-control rather than enabling decision-making at the right level. Through hands-on activities, simulations, and real-world case examples, you’ll leave with a toolkit to transform your programs and portfolios from a collection of disconnected projects into a dynamic, value-driven delivery system. This course is designed for Program and Project professionals who are working withing an Agile or Hybrid organization and looking to improve their results.