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How does LPM support decentralized decision-making?
✔✔By providing guardrails and guidelines that allow value stream leaders to make local
investment choices
What is the role of Strategic Themes in LPM?
✔✔To guide portfolio investment decisions and connect strategy to execution
What is a portfolio epic?
✔✔A large initiative that drives significant business value and requires analysis, approval, and
funding
How does LPM use WSJF?
✔✔To prioritize epics based on business value, time criticality, risk reduction, and effort
What is the purpose of the Portfolio Kanban?
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,✔✔To visualize the flow of epics from ideation through analysis, approval, and implementation
How does LPM enable faster response to market changes?
✔✔By continuously reprioritizing epics and allocating Lean Budgets dynamically
What are Lean Budgets?
✔✔Funding allocated to value streams instead of individual projects to maximize business value
What is the role of participatory budgeting in LPM?
✔✔To involve stakeholders in allocating funding to initiatives based on value and strategic
priorities
How does an Epic Owner contribute to LPM?
✔✔By defining epics, validating hypotheses, and guiding implementation toward business
outcomes
What is the purpose of a Lean Portfolio Canvas?
✔✔To capture the strategic intent, expected outcomes, and hypotheses of a portfolio initiative
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, How does LPM improve transparency?
✔✔By visualizing epics, funding, and progress in the Portfolio Kanban and regular Portfolio
Sync meetings
What is the role of portfolio metrics?
✔✔To measure progress, predictability, and alignment with strategic objectives
How does LPM facilitate continuous learning?
✔✔Through Inspect and Adapt workshops and feedback loops at the portfolio level
What is the purpose of guardrails in Lean Budgeting?
✔✔To provide boundaries and guidelines for investment decisions while enabling local
autonomy
How do Strategic Themes influence value stream priorities?
✔✔They provide guidance for allocating resources to initiatives that align with business
objectives
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