Cart is empty Course: Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
Dates: 06 – 09 Oct 2025
Location: Online
Time: 8:30 to 16:30
Price: R27 900 excl VAT (10% discount for 5 or more)
Gain the practical tools and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations, and Lean Governance. Participants in the course have the opportunity to capture the current and future state of their portfolio with the Portfolio Canvas tool and identify important business initiatives for achieving the portfolio vision. Participants establish portfolio flow with the Portfolio Kanban and prioritize epics for maximum economic benefit.
Vanessa Martens
Business Agility Coach (SPCT Candidate)
Vanessa Martens is passionate about creating meaningful work environment where people and businesses thrive. She is a Agile Transformation Coach that has launched12 Agile Release Trains in 7 years for clients such as BMW, Vodafone, large banks and insurance companies. Vanessa has trained over 1000 people and consulted on Agile and change initiatives on a SAP implementation, an Online Banking Channel and numerous Retail Apps. She has a Honours degree in Business Psychology, a Management Advancement Diploma and is an SPCT Candidate (2023). Her team describes her as a Star Wars nerd that loves a Gin and Tonic when not doing CrossFit. She will never pass up an adventure and has seen 64 countries and she likes a challenge.
Glenn Smith (SPCT)
SPCT - Business Agility Consultant
Glenn's mission is to help organisations bring better products to market faster. He spends most of his time working with clients to achieve that goal with fantastic results. His proven successes and high standards earned him the SPCT certification from Scaled Agile.
He is an active contributor to the agile and SAFe body of knowledge. As a SAFe framework contributor, you will find his words of wisdom on the framework website and in tooling in various toolkits available to SAFe-certified individuals.
Combined with his hands-on delivery experience, starting as an embedded software engineer with Motorola and then many enterprises, his knowledge and 'war-stories' make for an enjoyable and informative learning experience.
He is an active contributor to the agile and SAFe body of knowledge. As a SAFe framework contributor, you will find his words of wisdom on the framework website and in tooling in various toolkits available to SAFe-certified individuals.
Combined with his hands-on delivery experience, starting as an embedded software engineer with Motorola and then many enterprises, his knowledge and 'war-stories' make for an enjoyable and informative learning experience.