Product lifecycle times have been shortening sharply in the past couple of years. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, PayPal, and Tesla seem to outperform traditional companies with new, innovative products that meet customer demand and offer creative solutions to existing problems. It seems like large product companies have to redefine themselves in disruptive markets with new competitors.  How does it come that those big companies fail to keep innovating even though they have the advantage of existing customer relationships, strong technological knowledge and experience, and oftentimes remarkable financial resources? Whereas agile transformations on team level and the transformation of complex product development environments in tribes or agile release trains has been proven to be successful, organizations struggle with the implementation of a lean agile product strategy process. In his talk, Thorsten Janning will give insights into the lean portfolio management process and a lot of examples from the practical field. He will introduce useful tools and events that guide organizations through the process of developing a company vision, deriving the associated strategy, and then turning this into actually actionable items throughout the whole company development streams. 

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Dr. Thorsten Janning is a graduate mathematician and has worked in the IT industry since 1990. His professional career as an architect and project manager led him through consulting and user companies as well as a university professorship into the consulting and training business.  As co-founder (in 2002) he is a partner and was a member of the board of KEGON AG until the end of 2017. His professional activities focus on the development of lean and agile organizations for IT and business. Thorsten is one of the first European SAFe® Program Consultant Trainers (SPCT4) and the first German SAFe® Fellow and thus one of the most experienced and distinguished agile consultants in Europe.