13. Portfolio Level Overview

Do our innovation investments focus on leveraging our crown jewels, or are we spreading ourselves too thin and failing to achieve genuine competitive separation?

—Geoffrey Moore

Overview

Connecting the Portfolio to the Business

Defining Strategic Themes for a Portfolio

Influence of Strategic Themes

Measuring Progress Against Strategic Themes

Portfolio Roles

Lean-Agile Program Portfolio Management

Advancing Solution Behavior with Portfolio Epics

Establishing Enterprise Value Flow

Coordinating Value Streams

Summary

Overview

The portfolio level describes the principles, practices, and roles needed to govern investments for a set of development value streams. These include the following:

• Identifying value streams ...

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