Lean Portfolio Management & Participatory Budgeting

Do your teams get stretched across multiple work-streams with confusing priorities? It might be because the portfolios aren’t aligned.

Join Ken France and learn how Lean Portfolio Management helps organize from the top to create a culture of success for your Agile Teams. After a quick presentation and discussion, we’ll jump into a simulation of Participatory Budgeting where you will be part of the solution. After this, you’ll be able to help your portfolio leads improve collaboration.

Agenda:
5:15 – 5:30 Meet and Greet
5:30 – 7:00 Discussion and Hands on Workshop

Bio
Ken France, SAFe Fellow and VP of Scaled Agility, Cprime

Management and Executive Coach & Trainer with over 25+ years’ experience in agile/iterative development. Ken helps large-scale organizations adopt iterative and incremental development practices such as Agile & SAFe. He fosters constructive culture change and leadership enablement and is focused on evolving Portfolio and Program Management & Governance processes. Much of his career has been spent directly coaching Agile teams and their management chain on how to drive the change necessary to become successful at the enterprise level. As the Vice President of the Scaled Agile Practice at Cprime, Ken helps develop and implement corporate strategy, provides executive level coaching for our clients, and works with and across all Cprime departments to ensure overall Client Success. Ken was the first minted SAFe SPCT within the partner community and has achieved SAFe Fellow status based on his long-term contribution to the framework and the community.