Learn the key practices of value-aligned portfolio management: product increments, investment decisions, portfolio kanban, governance.
About this Event

Certified VMO Practitioner, in partnership with Lithespeed

This two-day training introduces participants to agile portfolio management and the role of the Value Management Office (VMO) in driving end-to-end agility and organizational change.

The path to enterprise agility requires an organization and its people to complete three traverses. In the traverse to team agility, the focus is on helping teams build flexible, adaptive, fit-for-purpose agile practices. This course covers the traverse to portfolio agility where the focus is on organizing agile teams into value streams and optimizing the delivery of value across the organization using a fast and resilient portfolio operating model, supported by adaptive governance. Portfolio agility sets the stage for organizations to make the final traverse to strategic agility.

This course is designed for experienced Scrum Masters and Product Owners, and Directors, Portfolio Managers and Executive Directors who want to level up their agile knowledge and practices and set the stage for their organization’s journey to enterprise agility.

This course is being taught in partnership with Lithespeed and is certified by the Agile Leadership Academy. Lithespeed wrote the book on this topic ‘From PMO to VMO: Managing for Value Delivery’.

In this course, participants will learn to:

Define an agile process. Understand the Business Agility Sparks® to target specific areas to build holistic business agility.
Organize around value streams
Build an agile portfolio process
Prioritize and select value increments
Plan and executive adaptively
Track and monitor program flow
Evolve a funding and governance strategy
Set up an Agile VMO

Each training is unique and adapted to the context and profile of the participants. It meets the learning objectives defined by the Agile Leadership Academy while providing the latitude for deep discussions and questions.

At the end of the two days, participants will receive:

Annotated training materials
The VMO Practitioner (ALA-CVP) ****certification from the Agile Leadership Academy
Certified Agile Leader 1 (CAL1) certification from the Scrum Alliance

About the Trainers

Sarah Adams

Sarah has deep experience as practitioner and consultant in the public, private and non-profit sectors, helping teams and organizations transform from the inside out. She deploys a wealth of skills in visual facilitation, team building, stakeholder engagement, workflow management, analysis and outcome measurement.

When coaching individuals, product delivery teams, and portfolio leaders, her passion is helping people clearly see their current reality and design their future. Sarah's values are clarity, flexibility, and trust.

Bob Payne

An early adopter of Extreme Programming, Scrum and SAFe, Bob Payne has worked exclusively as a Lean+Agile Transformation leader since 1999.

Bob Payne hosts the Agile Toolkit podcast and has produced over 170 episodes, recording a variety of industry leaders and Agile practitioners. Bob’s consulting and training style is built on years of Lean+Agile experience, a MSEE in Computer Architectures for Artificial Intelligence and having grown up working in his family’s restaurant, so you can expect a blend of technical excellence and customer service.