Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 3:
Epic Management - Take the Exits

August 17, 2021 | 1:00 PM ET

Organizations might have set up all the process steps for portfolio flow: the monthly strategic portfolio review, the portfolio kanban, even the lean business case. But, they are still not getting the idea that small, testable, constantly evaluated initiatives are what really increase your output of value to the customer and put you way ahead of the competition.

In part 1 of this webinar we explored how signs of imitation LPM show up in an organization’s approach to strategy. In part 2, we covered how to organize around value streams with examples of successful LPM.

Now, in this third webinar in our Lean Portfolio Management series we’ll join Cprime's Michiko Quinones (Jira Align Consultant), Jean Dahl (General Manager, Scaled Agility), & Neha Tiwari (Business Agility Portfolio Consultant) to learn techniques to:

• Question performing work that doesn't clearly align to your organization's strategy
• Develop a process that makes things smaller and testable when it comes to initiative creation and management
• Build a culture that allows work to stop if it's not going to meet its intended purpose
• Make sure that you are "thinking lean," rather than just "doing lean"

Speakers

Michiko Quinones Jira Align Consultant @Cprime Michiko has been helping fortune 100 companies implement scaled agility for the past 15 years, selling, implementing and managing instances, and training and building user communities of over 10K users. Michiko has worked at Rally, Comcast, the Pentagon, Fannie Mae and most recently, Cigna, where she led Cigna’s pivot from Rally to Jira and Jira Align. Michiko’s key superpower is to help people understand systems and processes using human centered language and positive engagement so to minimize obstacles to adoption.

Jean Dahl General Manager, Scaled Agility @Cprime Jean is a collaborative, outcomes-driven senior executive, author, recognized thought leader, speaker, and serial entrepreneur who is passionate about building adaptive and responsive Lean enterprises that exploit change to seize greater and greater levels of agility. She regularly consults with her clients, ranging from Lean startups to corporate giants, to help develop disruptive mindsets, using Lean and Agile principles and thinking to help them continuously improve, learn, and evolve in our 21st century global economy. Jean is also the author of two books on leadership: "Leading Lean: Ensuring Success and Developing a Framework for Leadership" and "The Making of an Agile Leader."

Neha Tiwari Business Agility Portfolio Consultant @Cprime Neha is a technology executive with over 15 years of proven success in Enterprise Agile transformation & delivery. She is a lean leader with strong ability to use innovative, technical and leadership skills to drive Enterprise strategy and portfolio delivery. Neha's sectors and specializations include: Media, Banking, Finance, Real state, GIS, Business and IT Transformation, Change Management & Process Innovation, IT Strategy, Quality Assurance, IT Governance, Project & Program Management and Business Solutions Delivery."

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