SAFe Lean Portfolio Management with SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM) certification

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is one of the five disciplines of SAFe. It connects strategy to execution across three functions: strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance.

A SAFe portfolio manages the flow of value across an organisation's Agile Release Trains, rather than approving individual projects. LPM funds long-lived value streams instead of temporary projects, with investment decisions made on a rolling cadence and priorities sequenced using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF).

A Lean Portfolio Manager is typically part of a small team, alongside executives and enterprise architects, who govern the portfolio and keep it aligned to strategy. SAFe's five lean thinking principles underpin the discipline: respect for people, flow, innovation, relentless improvement, and systems thinking applied at the portfolio level.

Most portfolio processes are good at approving work. Almost none of them are good at stopping it.

LPM addresses three problems we hear from executives constantly: strategy that doesn't translate into what teams actually do, teams overloaded with too many competing initiatives, and investment decisions made without real visibility into what's actually delivering value. LPM gives you the tools — Portfolio Kanban, Lean Budget Guardrails, Participatory Budgeting — to fix all three.

The course runs three days: two days of certified LPM content, followed by a third day — the Getting Started with LPM workshop — where you apply the tools to your own portfolio and build an implementation plan.

SAFe Lean Portfolio Management is a three-day online course, delivered via Zoom, Mural, and Slack. Public classes run on a regular schedule across the calendar year.

In-house classes can be delivered online or in person, set in your portfolio context and run on your dates. Contact us to arrange a quote.

• Course workbook (physical and digital)
• SAFe Big Picture and Implementation Roadmap handouts
• Getting Started with LPM workshop (day three)
• E-learning pre-work to help you prepare for the class
• Access to the SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM) certification exam
• One-year membership to SAFe Studio
• Course certificate of completion
• Pretty Agile swag, including a certified Lean Portfolio Manager laptop sticker
• Postage of physical materials

One exam attempt is included with course registration. The exam must be completed within 60 days of attendance confirmation. Extensions are not available. If the first attempt is unsuccessful, a retake fee applies.

Attendees must attend both course days to qualify for the exam.

Attendees may be eligible to claim PDUs toward PMI continuing education requirements and SEUs toward Scrum Alliance certification. To claim PMI PDUs, see the instructions on the Scaled Agile website. For SEUs, confirm requirements with Scrum Alliance's SEU policy.

Course pricing is listed against each scheduled date above. Public course pricing is in AUD and excludes GST. In-house pricing depends on group size and delivery format — contact us for a quote.

Participants who pass the LPM exam earn the SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM) certification, issued by Scaled Agile, Inc. via Credly.

The certification is valid for one year and is renewable annually through SAFe Studio.

Yes. One exam attempt is included in the course registration fee. Your trainer provides access to the exam at the end of the class. You have 60 days to take the exam online via SAFe Studio at a time of your choosing. Extensions are not available. If the first attempt is unsuccessful, a retake fee applies.

For full exam details including question format, time limit, and current pass mark, see the LPM 6.0 Exam Study Guide on the Scaled Agile support site.

The SAFe LPM exam is multiple-choice, administered online via SAFe Studio. For the current pass mark, number of questions, and time limit, see the LPM 6.0 Exam Study Guide on the Scaled Agile support site.

There are no mandatory prerequisites for the SAFe Lean Portfolio Management course. However, this course assumes participants have a working understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework. The following are highly recommended:

• Familiarity with Agile concepts and principles
• Attended a Leading SAFe course
• Experience working in a SAFe environment

If you're working at the implementation level as well as the portfolio level, Implementing SAFe (SPC certification) covers the full implementation lifecycle: value stream identification, ART design and launch, PI Planning facilitation, and LPM — co-delivered over four days by two SAFe Fellows.

LPM also builds directly on Leading SAFe — most attendees have already completed it before this course. If you're coming from a Scrum Master or Release Train Engineer background, LPM is the natural next step up: it explains how the portfolio-level funding and governance decisions shape the work your ART or team already delivers.

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