Leading a Lean Portfolio

What you’ll learn in the eBook

The most successful portfolio managers use agility to their winning advantage. What it takes is shifting from a project-based management approach to one that’s Lean—focusing on customer value rather than just output.

They do this by aligning business strategy and product development using a Lean systems-thinking approach to funding, portfolio operations management, and overall governance of how teams work. 

In this eBook we describe the five important shifts portfolio managers can make that will help you move to a more Lean management approach to planning, funding, and tracking product development work—with smart insights from our own Atlassian team.

The Five Important Shifts Include:

• Set a vision: Learn how to shift from planning projects to centering your work around the value you want to deliver to customers. 
• Plan by priorities: Continuously take in new information that will keep work aligned to objectives. 
• Fund teams, not projects: Find out what it means to devote resources to value streams.
• Make the valuable visible: Inform stakeholders and partners about your progress and create tight feedback loops.
• Identify and clear bottlenecks: Optimize your value delivery systems with value stream mapping.