Lean Portfolio Management:
Clear focus, maximum value creation, sustainable impact.
When strategic goals are unclear, priorities are disputed, and roadmaps are permanently overloaded, the company loses speed.
Lean Portfolio Management creates transparency, clear decision-making, and a continuous flow of value – enabling a portfolio that truly drives strategy forward.
How to recognize that action is needed:
- Your leadership team does not share a common understanding of how the portfolio contributes to the company’s strategy.
- Initiatives emerge bottom-up but are rarely defined based on value and do not clearly support strategic goals.
- Prioritization lacks sufficient guidance – teams work on too many things at the same time.
- The impact of your initiatives is barely measured: neither outcomes nor value contribution are regularly reviewed.
- Roadmaps are overloaded, misaligned, and create more illusion than orientation.
- Decisions depend on a few individuals rather than on clear principles and transparency.
Why is now the right time to act?
Companies today operate under massive pressure: volatile markets, rising customer expectations, technological leaps, and increasing operational complexity. Traditional portfolio management approaches are reaching their limits.
Lean Portfolio Management integrates strategy, funding, governance, and operational value streams, enabling faster decisions, better prioritization, continuous adaptability, and measurable results.
Our Approach
We help you establish a Lean Portfolio Management approach that strengthens value streams, provides clarity, and enables decentralized ownership.
Our services include:
- Defining strategic guardrails and a portfolio vision
- Introducing Portfolio Kanban
- Formulating value-driven initiatives
- Developing prioritization mechanisms
- Establishing synchronized roadmaps
- Implementing portfolio reviews & outcome measurement
- Enabling teams through training and coaching
What you gain:
- Strategy becomes effective
- Transparency over investments
- Increased delivery capability
- Faster adaptability
- Measurable impact
Common results include a reduction of parallel initiatives by 30–50% and the harmonization of cross-functional roadmaps.
Ready to start – formats for the beginning:
- LPM Assessment (incl. diagnostic questionnaire)
- Portfolio Kanban Workshop
- Lean Portfolio Management Training (SAFe-certified)
- Portfolio prioritization with cross-functional leadership teams
- OKR Training incl. certification and OKR implementation
In‑Depth Support
- Implementation of a Portfolio Operating Model
- Facilitation of portfolio events
- Coaching of Portfolio Owners, Business Owners, PMO/VMO & leaders
- Development of roadmaps, prioritization models, and metrics systems
Our Recommendation for the First Step:
Start with an LPM Assessment to clearly determine your maturity level and define a structured change roadmap.
Let’s align your portfolio for meaningful impact.