Mission Control
This core responsibility establishes guardrails around spending, epic approval, and WIP limits. It also helps maintain a balance between run-the-business and change-the-business investments.
What is lean portfolio governance?
This meeting is usually between 15 - 30 minutes long, and happens every day.
What is daily stand up?
It's important for epic owners to look our for these, which may cause some bumps in the road when not addressed.
What are cross-team dependencies or risks?
This role is accountable for defining and managing large initiatives from concept to implementation.
Who is the epic owner?
The Wonder Years, a coming-of-age TV show set in the 1960s, inspired this young immigrant's journey to the United States (who now leads Cyber LPM).
Who is Anand Magadi?
This core responsibility supports the translation of strategic themes and business objectives into actionable epics.
What is strategy execution alignment?
SAFe recommends organizing around these to improve flow and value delivery?
What are value streams?
We ensure every strategic initiative starts here, in this key Jira Align artifact.
What is an epic?
Who is the Product Manager?
This CoHeart played the bassoon in both high school and college. They have also played the piano, flute, clarinet, french horn, and tuba.
Who is Christina Pickard?
As a Lean Portfolio Management team, our goal is to deliver the highest possible value through this process in Jira Align.
What is prioritization of portfolio epics?
This SAFe event aligns teams on vision and priorities every quarter.
What is PI planning?
Lean Portfolio Management is a liaison to this, or T-VMO for short.
What is the Technology Value Management Office?
This team member turns features into actionable stories and supports the team's day-to-day delivery.
Who is the Product Owner?
This CoHeart loves to go camping! They have explored campgrounds in over 20 US states, and last year completed an "epic" visit towing a travel trailer to the Badlands, Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and Arches National Parks.
Who is Steve Reichenbach?
The lean portfolio management team promotes the use of lean-agile metrics and flow-based KPIs for portfolio health. We emphasize this to drive operational excellence, I&A sessions, and improvement backlogs at the portfolio level.
What is continuous improvement?
Portfolio-level epics in SAFe are commonly managed in this tool.
What is Jira Align?
Managing this is crucial for balancing demand and capacity across the portfolio.
What is the portfolio backlog?
Servant leader of the team, this role coaches agile practices and removes impediments.
Who is the Scrum Master?
This CoHeart had the opportunity to travel on Diplomat (a government official passport) to several countries for dance.
Who is Krithika Balakrishnan?
We foster lean governance and transparency by visualizing and managing portfolio flow with this key practice.
What is the portfolio kanban?
Southwest Airlines uses this version of the SAFe agile framework.
What is lean-agile?
The Lean Portfolio Management team aims to utilize these for better data management.
What are enterprise tools?
Who is the Release Train Engineer?
This CoHeart has worked in 6 countries and moved to a new house 15 times in the last 17 years.
Who is Amie Dsouza?