ABSTRACT
An ever-increasing number of projects mobilize agile practices, bringing a need to scale agile for a greater number of projects. This brings specific challenges for larger organizations relying on traditional portfolio management processes. This chapter aims at a better understanding of agile portfolio management, a topic that has started gaining some interest in literature but remains to be further explored in practice. This chapter proposes four key goals (strategic direction, value maximization, balance portfolio, portfolio performance) and an overarching mechanism (governance) of portfolio management. It explores what these mean both for traditional and agile portfolio management. It delves more specifically into SAFe, a widespread framework for scaling agile. It presents how the key goals of portfolio management are achieved in this framework and then investigates a concrete implementation of SAFe in practice. Finally, it suggests avenues of investigation for the study of agile portfolio management.
